No. 2002, November 2002

Index

• Pay and display: the one thing that employees read every month is their payslip. Louisa Roberts explains how companies and advertisers are finding new ways to take advantage of this on paper and on-line.
• Roll reversal: the payroll function has come a long, long way over the past decade. Cathy Hayward explains how specialists in the field have evolved from number-crunching administrators to sought-after strategists.
• Slipping out: on the face of it, outsourcing the payroll function makes a lot of sense, because it allows companies to focus on their core activities safe in the knowledge that expert providers are on the case. But can an employer ever truly abdicate its responsibility for paying staff properly?
• Whose baby? Should the payroll function be finance's ultimate responsibility or personnel's? There are good arguments to support both viewpoints, writes Ruth Prickett, but it really shouldn't matter as long as the two departments can work together to ensure an error-free operation.
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• Accountancy Foundation review brought forward.
• Accounting Standards Board to postpone full FRS17 implementation.
• Albany Software.
• Apathy rules as green law looms: directors are unwilling to back their rhetoric with action.
• Armstrong Laing.
• ASB issues revised FRSSE.
• ASB starts UK alignment drive.
• Astute Software.
• Banks' outsourcing fad `will benefit customers'.
• Big business weighs in to fight Aids pandemic.
• Boots revamps reporting regime.
• Brown warned over tax changes.
• Buyers gain the upper hand in software market: exhibitors at last month's 2002 Softworld Accountancy & Finance show have been finding it hard to win new clients.
• Call for EU standard co-ordinator.
• CBI targets poor sick leave record.
• CIMA backs code for non-execs: the institute has put a range of proposals to the Treasury.
• CIMA's annual conference to focus on risk management.
• Could you be a CIMA Award winner?
• DTI considers wider use of IASs.
• Dual listing in the US `adds to credibility': but experts warn of all the baggage that goes with it.
• Employee bodies reject IASB plan: but the proposals have been welcomed in other quarters.
• FASB and IASB seek harmony.
• Firms reduce payment delays.
• Government expands on review.
• Hectic year in store for standard-setting body.
• IAS1--presentation of financial statements.
• IAS19--employee benefits.
• IAS24: related-party disclosures.
• IAS8--net profit or loss for the period, fundamental errors and changes in accounting policies.
• IASB aims to alter 12 standards.
• IASB issues changeover guidance.
• IFAC offers IT monitoring advice.
• IFAC publishes e-guidance.
• InGroup.
• Meacher backs CIMA on environmental reporting.
• Microsoft.
• Multinationals go global on retirement planning.
• OFT proposes tougher penalties: ignorant-directors face disqualification under a new law.
• Pickering's proposals `fall short': many stakeholders were hoping for more radical plans.
• Preparatory course for IASs.
• Public bodies face reforms.
• SIC32: intangible assets--website costs.
• Something better to declare.
• SquareSum.
• System change puts FT in the pink: the publishing group has replaced a `mass of spaghetti'.
• Treat gurus with scepticism.
• UK businesses ignore euro risks: firms are failing to prepare for the new EU currency.
• Accounting charity gets on road to Marrakesh.
• Accusations of hypocrisy fly as Sage contests MS `monopoly'.
• An offer you can't turn down.
• Anti-FRS17 lobby on warpath: the standard has exposed massive deficits in funding.
• APB issues yearly round-up.
• Arts thank firms for supporting role.
• Budget will hit UK plc for 8.3 billion £ in tax and admin costs.
• Call for share option changes: industry insiders are arguing that publishing employee share options as an expense would increase firms' financial transparency.
• CIMA conference round-up.
• Early start for late-payment rule.
• EC levels VAT playing field.
• Electronic invoicing platform.
• Ethics up for discussion.
• EU tightens governance laws.
• FDs admit to corporate myopia.
• Firms hit by apartheid charge: respondents to a US lawsuit face a huge damages claim.
• FM's bumper Christmas issue.
• Forward planning from Elevon.
• FSA targets split-cap trusts: the watchdog is aiming to close `a gap in the regulation'.
• Hotels endure premiums hike: insurance charges have spiralled since 11 September.
• How to: get started in corporate social responsibility.
• Internet-based reporting paper.
• M&S reveals survival secrets: Vandevelde cites a mix of short- and long-term moves.
• Minister backs CIMA guide.
• Ministers issue reform proposals.
• Ministers plan to extend IAS: private firms should prepare for international standards.
• Ministers rapped on exec pay.
• New version of Sage software.
• No more Enrons, says IFAC.
• Options open for CIMA members.
• PAYE as you go on-line.
• Public image unlimited.
• Revenue inquiries triple.
• SMEs support CPD.
• SMPs call for IFAC support.
• Trustees ill-equipped for task: researchers have uncovered a serious lack of support.
• UK firms to reform practices: companies are keen to avoid criticism from stakeholders.
• UN questions IASB's greenness.
• Which type of chief financial officer are you?
• Whitehall farce extends its run.