Articles from Financial Management (UK) (June 1, 2004)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
Alliance & Leicester: a clarification.		Letter to the Editor	94
Alms and the man: accountants in search of a quiet life need not apply. Oxfam is seeking professionals who crave a real challenge and the satisfaction of seeing the difference their work makes on the ground. Ruth Prickett finds out why the charity is competing directly with big business for financial talent.	Prickett, Ruth		1254
Andersen fined 1.1 million [pounds sterling].		Brief Article	77
Audit ban for Ernst & Young.		Brief Article	97
BVCA issues pensions caution.		Brief Article	60
Call for increased NAO role.		Brief Article	47
Cartesis[R]: increased shareholder activism and corporate governance regulation are making the provision of sound information to all stakeholders more crucial than ever. Jonny Cheetham answers your questions about the role of IT in rising to this challenge.	Cheetham, Jonny		833
CIMA director lands Swiss role.		Brief Article	46
Conference to focus on fraud: delegates will hear that crime prevention begins at home.	Howarth, Anita		319
Correction.		Correction Notice	54
Critical maths: a young business will tend to encounter funding problems at certain key stages of its growth. Mike Brooks offers his guide to raising enough finance to get through these make-or-break situations intact.	Brooks, Mike		1337
Database to store CIMA's position on a range of issues.		Brief Article	238
Draft excluders: when management accountants get closely involved in the process of designing new products and services, the results tend to be highly beneficial. But this message doesn't seem to have got through to many designers. Povl Larsen and Alan Lewis describe their CIMA-backed study of the two disciplines' differing views of the role of financial management in design.	Larsen, Povl; Lewis, Alan		1290
EC seeks views on disclosure.		Brief Article	75
Editorial comment.	Roberts, Louisa		514
Elections to CIMA Council 2004.			220
Exodus and genesis: what skills and qualities do financial managers need in order to start up their own companies? Ruth Prickett asks CIMA members who have made the break successfully to share their secrets of entrepreneurship.	Prickett, Ruth		2795
Fete accompli: come rain or shine over the next three months, entertainment institutions such as Glastonbury, Wimbledon and Edinburgh are the true ingredients of a great British summer. Louisa Roberts finds out what the challenges and rewards are for the organisers of these seasonal money-spinners.	Roberts, Louisa	Cover Story	3528
Firms make do with bad data.		Brief Article	57
Firms pressured to come clean: shareholders are mobilising on climate-change issues.	Howarth, Anita		331
GSK CFO pockets huge pay rise.		Brief Article	67
Immune system.	Cassell, Merrill	Letter to the Editor	143
Institute puts the Golden Mango up for grabs.		Brief Article	309
Law Society slams incomplete finance bill.		Brief Article	298
Malaysian best-practice award.		Brief Article	209
Medicinal purpose: a firm that's enjoying a purple patch could be forgiven for thinking 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it', but this attitude is unlikely to prolong its success. Jim Heaney describes how his company, Norgine, reacted when it realised that, although its organisational model had been getting good results, it would be unable to sustain them in future.	Heaney, Jim		1153
Moving on up.	Likierman, Andrew	Letter to the Editor	180
New regulations weigh heavily on business.		Brief Article	304
Obituary: John Nixon.		Obituary	157
Part-time FDs dominate NHS.		Brief Article	42
Pension standard hits BAA profits.		Brief Article	65
Presidential engagements.			29
Pull your SOX up: Jon Abolins considers the global impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on the provision of transaction tax services and highlights the law's demands on the audit committees of all US-listed companies.	Abolins, Jon		738
Tax avoidance rules change.		Brief Article	61
The science of compliance: the task of adjusting to IFRS may seem a major burden from where most of us are standing, writes Chris Field, but it's a golden opportunity to rethink business performance management systems.	Field, Chris		823
To hull and back: the Court of Appeal has decided that tribunals can award compensation for injury to feelings where an employee has suffered from the manner of an unfair dismissal.	Nickson, Sue		655
UK companies 'play into the hands' of hackers.			328
Value-added facts.	Banerji, A.	Letter to the Editor	305
Varney to take on tax role.		Brief Article	80
Vive la difference.	Kilvington, K.	Letter to the Editor	218