Articles from Financial Management (UK) (September 1, 2007)

Title	Author	Type	Words
... Last out.			454
A favourable variance: CIMA's chief executive, Charles Tilley, recently addressed HM Treasury's advisers' conference in his capacity as chairman of its best-practice advisory panel on financial management, In the following edited extracts of his presentation he proposes a change of culture throughout Whitehall and explains how it can be achieved.	Tilley, Charles	Conference news	1769
Budget busters.	Edgecombe, Mark	Letter to the editor	235
CIMA has responded to the Accounting Standards Board's consultation paper, "IASB ED of a proposed IFRS for SMEs", and to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) on its proposal to encourage the voluntary disclosure of qualified audit reports.		Brief article	109
CIMA is inviting proposals for research.		Brief article	90
Cut along the bias.	Cullen, Noel	Letter to the editor	246
Diary: forthcoming local events in the UK.		Calendar	2072
Different class: Jo Holmes explains The CIMA difference and what it means for members, students and employers.	Holmes, Jo		971
Don't bank on butterflies.	Teutsch, Walter	Letter to the editor	92
Exam notice.			992
Exam results update.			123
FP&A analyst: Rebecca Walker explains what a career in financial planning and analysis entails.	Walker, Rebecca		767
From open season to open sesame: private equity firms have realised that self-imposed glasnost today could prevent further censure and tighter regulation tomorrow. Danielle Cohen analyses an industry with a big public relations job on its hands.	Cohen, Danielle		583
Homicide law enacted.		Brief article	151
Islamic finance: firms seeking a slice of the growing Muslim market would be well advised to learn its complexities inside out, writes John Willsdon--which is where the CIMA certificate in Islamic finance comes in.	Willsdon, John		1941
Making a veld of difference.			265
Management accounting--performance evaluation: Bob Scarlett charts the rise of the Beyond Budgeting movement and explains how it differs from traditional approaches to financial control.	Scarlett, Bob		1462
Market testing.	Hill, Graham	Letter to the editor	99
Mates' rates: politicians will continue applying sloppy logic to research statistics if the more numerate among us don't challenge them, writes Ruth Prickett, who casts a critical eye over a recent policy announcement on marriage benefits.	Prickett, Ruth		793
Money-laundering: how to keep clean.	Nimmo, Martin		908
Moulton and Laffin for conference.		Conference news	194
Nick Topazio, head of financial reporting at CIMA, will be speaking at IFRS 2007/8, a symposium for FDs and controllers, analysts and investors at the Marriott Grosvenor Square, London, on October 4.			73
Oratory lab: Khalid Aziz explains how you can become a more confident and effective public speaker.	Aziz, Khalid		1354
Philip Yea FCMA Chief executive, 3i.		Interview	1348
Private equity: a debt to society?	Hodge, Neil; Collett, Nick	Statistical table	3898
Stage fright.	Ross, Duncan	Letter to the editor	131
Strategic audit: Tony Grundy explains why it's vital to give your strategy a health check.	Grundy, Tony		1382
Strategic risk is the main threat to shareholder value, but too many firms are still failing to grasp this nettle.			611
Student one 2 one: Samran Habib, Treasury Assistant, Al Ahmadiah-Aktor.		Interview	521
The ASB has published financial reporting exposure draft 21: "Related-party disclosures", which contains proposals to replace the UK standard FRS8 with a standard based on IAS24.		Brief article	57
The OECD has released two reports on private equity and hedge funds.		Brief article	81
The UK Cabinet Office has opened a consultation on a new 10m [pounds sterling] risk capital investment fund for social enterprises.		Brief article	129
The UK Office of the Third Sector is consulting on the extension of independent examination to small charitable companies, group accounts for charities and the reporting of public benefit in trustees' annual reports.		Brief article	47
TOPCIMA: is the Merbatty Boat Company's five-year plan watertight? Adrian Sims reviews the case study's pre-seen material and flags up some key issues.	Sims, Adrian	Case study	2665
Transfer pricing: Danny Beeton and Guy Kersch explain why more and more FDs will need to query the transfer pricing basis for most items on their income statements and balance sheets.	Beeton, Danny; Kersch, Guy		1309
Vive la difference.			126