No. 2006, February 2006
Index
- Steps to success: how to lay strong foundations to support you all the way to CIMA membership--one brick at a time.
- From first steps to membership: no one says it's going to be easy, but Camilla Berens finds out that a few good decisions early on can reduce the CIMA mountain to manageable proportions.
- Revision hints and exam tips: now that you've found enough time, what should you do with it?
- Time to learn: it's never easy to combine work and study and the commonest complaint is lack of time. You can't slow down the clock, but, writes Ruth Prickett, there are ways to ensure you get maximum return on every precious minute.
- CIMA's creativity, global reach and collaborative instinct are yielding hugely beneficial initiatives.
- CIMA's scientific activities bridge the gap between management accounting theory and practice.
- Congratulations to everyone who makes us such a dynamic and successful organisation.
- High ethical standards are not an optional extra: they are fundamental to our professional status.
- I've been fortunate enough to preside over a fantastic year of achievement for CIMA.
- My visit to Africa reinforced our global success at meeting the needs of employers and members.
- Our continuing success on a global front hinges on innovation, collaboration and reputation.
- This institute keeps pulling out all the stops to ensure its members' continued employability.
- We need to show outsiders that value creation is more important to us than reporting compliance.
- "Complacent" US firms slip down must-read list of annual reports.
- A CIMA technical article published in Financial Management has been selected for inclusion in the international Federation of Accountants' 2006 Articles of Merit booklet.
- Boards suffer no-confidence vote over their ability to deal with risk.
- Canada is donating US$1m to the International Public Sector Accounting Standards Board.
- Charities challenged to take lead on accountability.
- CIMA contemplates Combined Code option for OFR.
- CIMA has opened three helplines.
- CIMA has the fastest-growing membership of all professional accountancy bodies in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, according to the institute's recently published 2005 annual review.
- CIMA is offering up to 2,000 £ of funding to researchers whose projects fit the requirements of the institute's research strategy.
- CIMA member Adam Joelson is swapping spreadsheets for jib sheets in a bid to raise money for charity.
- CIMA members around the world.
- CIMA will be touring the UK this summer to provide information on the new code of ethics.
- Companies urged to review healthcare premiums.
- Dave Belmont FCMA has been named company secretary of the year by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators.
- Deal with risk strategically or lose shareholder value, firms warned.
- Department of Health places 62 health service bodies on critical list.
- Extremists force small investors to consider using nominee accounts.
- Financial managers with a taste for adventure are being urged to take part in a new corporate fundraising event.
- Four CIMA members and a prominent CIMA student have received awards in the Queen's birthday honours list this year.
- Four FCMAs have been included on a list of Europe's 88 best chief financial officers, compiled by Institutional Investor magazine.
- FRC calls on CIMA members to join debate on auditor competition risk.
- Fund managers welcome IFRS reports' transparency.
- Further to our February news item.
- Hidden levies on top of corporation tax double FTSE 100's total burden.
- High-performing public-sector accountants wanting to highlight their achievements.
- Institute urges government to revive mandatory OFR.
- M&S's victory on tax relief fails to open floodgates for UK companies.
- Members and students.
- New IASB trustees shift balance of power to Asia.
- NHS chief reveals stringent cost-cutting scheme.
- Pass rates for six of the ten exams.
- Professor Sir Andrew Likierman.
- The General Assembly Of The United Nations has approved a financial management reform programme that calls for the adoption of international public-sector accounting standards by the UN.
- The Office of Fair Trading has investigated criticisms of excessive bank charges and issued a statement of principles on calculations of credit card default charges.
- The revised CIMA certificate in business accounting was unveiled at the institute's recent annual lecturers' conference.
- The UK government has agreed to reassess how age discrimination rules will be applied to pension schemes and it will delay implementing the regulations for pensions.
- Tickets are still available.
- Tilley applauds provision of "safe harbour" for directors.
- Two more CIMA members have secured appointments to the board of the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC).
- "Exceptional" part-qualified makes short work of advanced diploma.
- A publication claiming to be the world's first corporate social responsibility directory is now available for businesses seeking CSR service.
- Almost three-quarters of directors.
- Blair urges the UK to lose its fear of economically vital immigrants.
- Businesses are recruiting older people even before the UK's age discrimination regulations come into force.
- CBI seeks end to treaty allowing US to detain UK suspects without trial.
- Children's charity Barnardo's is appealing to businesses to support its Make a Difference Day initiative from October 21 to November 4.
- CIMA annual conference to cover all the bases.
- CIMA releases ethics CD.
- CIMA web site users.
- Companies are being urged to check their risk rating to ensure that they are not contributing too much to the new pension protection fund (PPF).
- Continuing professional development on a Compact Disc.
- Elections to CIMA council will be held in all areas, apart from Scotland, in February 2007.
- Energy suppliers toil hard to drill own through embedded options.
- Enron's former chief accounting officer.
- FEE shares its vision for unification of standards.
- Firms are still favouring "male, pale and stale" candidates for top jobs, according to recruitment agency Executives Online.
- Half of UK firms do not know how to calculate late-payment interest, according to research by the Better Payment Practice Group (BPPG).
- Here's your chance to tell the taxman exactly what you think of him: HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is seeking contributions to a review of its functions.
- Home Office pins Whitehall farce on IT implementation difficulties.
- Members to receive CPD disc.
- More than a million UK businesses have become eligible for simpler VAT payments via a single annual return and monthly instalments.
- Nationwide backs Powergen's decision to inshore.
- NHS part-qualifieds triumph.
- Offer a soft centre to journalists, urges chocolate company's CEO.
- OFR U-turn will send chancellor to court, pledges Friends of the Earth.
- Shareholder advisory body accuses boards of flouting Combined Code.
- Shortlists for CIMA Financial Management Awards.
- The Accounting Standards Board has issued a draft exposure setting out proposals to amend FRS17 "Retirement Benefits".
- The Accounting Standards Board.
- The Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT), the International Association of Book-keepers (IAB) and the Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA) are investigating the feasibility of a joint qualification structure.
- The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has called for the Small Business Service (SBS) to be axed.
- The Charities Aid Foundation is holding its third annual Companies and Communities Awards to recognise best practice in corporate community investment.
- The European Federation of Accountants (FEE) has published the findings of its discussion paper.
- The European Federation of Accountants is holding a joint conference with the European Commission on accrual accounting in the public sector.
- The European Parliament is planning to investigate the Equitable Life scandal.
- The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published an updated Combined Code on Corporate Governance.
- The Financial Reporting Council.
- The FRC has published a summary of developments in corporate reporting and governance over the past three months and those expected in the next quarter.
- The high esteem in which CIMA's late past president Sir Ian Morrow was held was demonstrated by the number of people who attended a thanksgiving service for him at St Paul's Cathedral last month.
- The International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee has released draft interpretation D18.
- The profits of almost half of all SMEs in the UK will fall significantly if compulsory pension contributions are introduced.
- Think-tank calls for higher standards in tax planning.
- A series of conferences and quarterly reports aimed at business leaders and senior management accountants will be launched by CIMA in the new year.
- Charities press IASB to issue transparency standard.
- Charles Allen FCMA Chief executive, ITV.
- Charles Snailham ACMA Director of finance, London Symphony Orchestra.
- Despite fears of age discrimination at work, new research has found that many employers around the world value older workers.