Articles from Financial Management (UK) (November 1, 2008)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A power of good.	Afker, Sarah	Letter to the editor	146
Accounting in the hospitality sector: Ruth Mattimoe and Will Seal tell Louise Ross that their study of UK restaurants and hotels won't produce a dry academic treatise.	Ross, Louise	Interview	1331
Adjust 17: two different actuaries could legitimately derive wildly varying figures for your company's pension scheme deficit under FRS17. David Davison urges FDs to question actuarial assumptions.	Davison, David		623
Aneeb Farrukh: student, Lahore, Pakistan.		Interview	603
Animal husbandry?			44
Automatic for the people?	Perry, Graham	Letter to the editor	167
CapGemini.			37
Capitol gains: new research shows that firms' political connections directly affect their share prices--even in nations as highly regulated as the US. Jorg Rocholl explains the implications.	Rocholl, Jorg		1647
Chills multiplying.			29
China considers CSR legislation.			177
CIMA global events: CIMA Ireland conference.		Conference news	322
CIMA is working hard to ensure that its members can guide their organisations through the crisis.			588
Coming events.			695
Cost allocation: Hugh Evans and Deborah Wall offer their guide to developing an accurate, yet simple and pragmatic, approach to cost allocation that's most appropriate for your organisation.	Evans, Hugh; Wall, Deborah		1204
Credit reference agency criticises safety laws.			271
Credit where it's due: who benefits from your accountancy skills? Martyn Trotman describes his experiences of setting up a micro-credit programme in rural west Africa.	Trotman, Martyn		1453
Don't be a Noel coward.		Brief article	226
Elections to council 2009.			94
Exam notice: visit www.cimaglobal.com regularly for updates.			972
FDs plan job cuts in bid to beat recession.			318
Financial risk management: Alexa Michael sets out the tools and techniques available for firms to mitigate the worst effects of the credit crunch and impending recession.	Michael, Alexa		1094
Green growth: the future of environmental policies, products and CSR reporting were the focus of a round-table debate hosted by FM.	Prickett, Ruth		3004
IFRS conference.		Conference news	124
Insecurities market: risk management is rightly high on the corporate agenda, but many organisations are still failing to approach the task in a sufficiently systematic and rigorous way.	Brooks, Mike		757
Integrated management: an effective organisation will clearly link its mission, objectives, CSFs and KPIs. But Daniel Clark finds that the connections aren't always obvious.	Clark, Daniel	Company overview	1433
Jefferson Wells.			22
Laissez-faire value.			39
Management accounting--performance evaluation: Grahame Steven explains why it's tempting to manipulate transfer prices when moving products between a group's subsidiaries in different nations.	Steven, Grahame		2493
McKinney Rogers.			24
Money-laundering help.			308
National Express.			20
Nigel Turner FCMA Chief executive, BMI.		Cover story	1531
No, really?			26
Overstretched simile of the month.	Windsor, Paul		40
Part-time finance director: Colin Mills explains the demands and benefits of stepping away from a full-time role and pursuing a "portfolio career".	Mills, Colin		503
Performance measurement and manipulation: Colin Fisher and Bernadette Downes discuss their research into the ways in which metrics are massaged in the public sector.	Fisher, Colin; Downes, Bernadette		1031
Presidential engagements.		Calendar	86
Report writing: you don't have to be a desktop publishing guru to illustrate facts and figures effectively. Jon Moon offers his guide to providing information with impact.	Moon, Jon		1349
Revamp for charity list.			126
Shock treatment?			63
Should I stay or should I go? Ambitious managers need to be objective when reviewing their prospects, warns Anthony McAlister, who extols the virtues of benchmarking.	McAlister, Anthony		1458
Take-off for CIMA's business flight simulator.			289
The CIMA member survey results.	Davies, Simon	Survey	1457
Tilley urges US to embrace IFRS.			212
Twisted blister.	Wolf, Martin		14
Unfortunate headline of the year.			17
What next? It's easy to blame the bankers for the economic crisis and to ask why taxpayers should support the people who reaped huge rewards for taking risks, but what's the alternative? As governments around the world stump up cash and demand curbs on bonuses, we ask the experts what can be done to regulate rewards in the City without killing the goose that once a d the go den eggs.			3570
Where there's blame, there's a claim: as more and more firms get crunched, the legal system will have its work cut out when creditors start fighting for their share of the scraps and pursuing negligence cases.	Evans, Nichola		638
Why didn't we think of that?			10
Zone defence.	Tshuma, Sibusiso	Letter to the editor	311