No. 2001, October 2001

Index

• Baan Company.
• Theory of devolution.
• BRADFORD & BINGLEY CAR SCHEME.
• Braking point?
• Car mileage allowances slashed by 50 per cent.
• Comment.
• Cork International.
• Emergency stop.
• Fleet guidance for SMEs.
• Fleet Management.
• Money go-round.
• Package deal.
• Road test.
• Rules of engagement.
• Still in the fast lane.
• SURVEY HIGHLIGHTS GREEN DRIVERS.
• TAX GUIDE FOR DRIVERS AND FIRMS.
• What's at stake?
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• Editor's letter.
• A global quality standard for firms conducting transnational audits.
• Accountancy firms put at risk by software failures.
• Advice on property investment.
• Analyst debate the cost of terrorism.
• Brand wars will spark `cynicism' and `revolution'.
• Business advisers back Hague.
• BUSINESS HOPES DISAPPOINTED.
• Call for consistent policy on LPG.
• Cars can drive new investment.
• Cathedral shop buys PayPoint.
• CFOs call for banking transparency.
• Charities reprimanded.
• Cybercriminals terrorise UK firms.
• Dataflow is good for the Heart.
• Digita backs self-assessment.
• Directors told to invest in firm.
• Dragnet e-business.
• Drop in confidence.
• Duplicates cost firms millions.
• European businesses adopt utility-based IT financing.
• FDs told to pick the soft centers; David Kappler, group FD of Cadbury Schweppes, advised delegates at CIMA's GBMW Event how to enjoy the sweet taste of success.
• Firm ways to avoid tax.
• Firms advised to cut climate change levy by going green.
• FM scoops international accounting awards.
• Foot and mouth crisis slaughters rural tourism industry across UK.
• GLOBAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT WEEK.
• Gym gets fit for business.
• IAS: think global, act international.
• IT managers are wasting money on the latest IT systems and are failing to gain competitive advantage.
• Members stand up to be counted.
• Merger financing for IT sector.
• MP attacks BCCI `cover-up'.
• MPs struggle with tax returns.
• New president of SOLACE.
• New unit aids company rescue.
• One-stop-shop security portal.
• Pastel Software.
• Pensions fail to provide for old age.
• Post Office CEO predicts profits.
• Reader offer.
• Revenue kills off old image.
• Scala.
• SMEs improve credit policies.
• Softworld Accounting and Finance 2001 news round-up.
• Squaresum.
• Swedish integrated management.
• Tenon Technology.
• The Accounting Standards Board (ASB) is seeking comments on the recommendations made in the Convergence Handbook.
• The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) has published IAS 41, Agriculture.
• Turning strategy into profit.
• Vague management-speak dooms business strategies.
• A NEW CHAPTER.
• Access Accounting demonstrated Access Dimensions.NET.
• Albany software.
• An acute shortage of payroll administration skills in businesses could hamper the chancellor's stated aim of boosting the UK's enterprise culture.
• BAAEC to close.
• Bank of Scotland is offering committed overdrafts for UKSMEs.
• BarterTrust shifts base to London in bid for European barter market.
• Business recovery professionals have saved the government half a billion pounds by rescuing nearly 100,000 jobs in failing companies.
• Charge by value, not time.
• CIMA chief executive takes early retirement.
• Companies err over FRS13.
• Creativity: gain not drain.
• Customs advice on video.
• Domain name management.
• E-procurement is no panacea.
• EC proposes new mechanism.
• Eclipse Computing.
• Ethical reporting crucial for survival.
• Experts fear pension chaos.
• FDs warm to public relations.
• Finance revolution storms Whitehall.