No. 2004, November 2004

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• Aid organisations found wanting: charities are under pressure to report more transparently.
• Big expansion in contract work.
• Big Four await liability cap verdict: the DTI is under pressure to limit the burden on audit firms.
• Boris Johnson will be the guest speaker at the CIMA and Financial Management Awards gala dinner after the conference on the evening of 25 November.
• Budgeting insights revealed.
• Charity calls for legislation on CSR: Christian Aid has accused major companies of hypocrisy.
• Choose LIFO in the fast lane.
• CIMA lines up star attractions.
• CIMA member helps aid agency.
• CIMA mixes it with marketers.
• CIPFA proposes end to council tax: but the alternative funding method resembles poll tax.
• City firms fail to give employees training on FSA regulations.
• Companies launch charm offensive to avoid trouble at AGMs.
• Consolidation update.
• Discrimination rampant in finance as female professionals lag far behind on pay.
• Event to focus on performance.
• Firms warned to hurry up on IAS.
• Football clubs shown yellow card: a survey has found flaws in their corporate governance.
• Free guides to best practice.
• Fund guru predicts gloomy 2005: the stock market is likely to go 'sideways rather than up'.
• Government rethinks fraud law.
• Green groups launch offensive against negligent directors.
• How green was my value added?
• IFAC steps up campaign to restore investors' faith.
• Low-cost tax advice scheme.
• National Business Awards unearth secrets of leadership.
• NHS aims to top popularity poll.
• Old heads on young shoulders.
• Price of SOX to run into millions.
• Prized assets go on the record.
• Reality check for realty funds.
• SEM theme for Malaysian event.
• Standards bodies at loggerheads: IAS39 has caused a continental rift at the eleventh hour.
• Survey to shape future of institute: CIMA's member research results have been 'very useful'.
• Tax man gets charitable.
• Warning on Basel II conformance: banks have been cautioned against a tick-box approach.
• Accountants turn SMEs green.
• Arty parties do pension plans: NAPF delegates aired their views on postcards. Ruth Prickett reports the results.
• Awards deadline approaches.
• BVCA issues pensions caution.
• Call for increased NAO role.
• CIMA consults on CPD system: 'members' feedback is critical,' says CEO Charles Tilley.
• CIMA director lands Swiss role.
• CIMA enters merger dialogue; a three-way amalgamation is under consideration.
• CIMA volunteers aid charities to global success.
• CSR benefits lost on UK firms.
• DTI to defer OFR deadline.
• Expert spies a hole in the law: criminals will easily find a way round the regulations.
• FEE backs third-party assessment of CSR reports.
• Financial jobs fit all sizes.
• Firms make do with bad data.
• Firms pressured to come clean: shareholders are mobilising on climate-change issues.
• Firms quizzed on school reform.
• Flexible work lures accountants into public sector.
• Free tax guidebook published.
• IFAC issues laundering update.
• IFRS: reticent companies risk stock devaluation.
• Institute takes the lead on enterprise governance.
• Late law change causes 'mess': the treasury has been criticised for its lack of guidance.
• Merger talks gain momentum: Louisa Roberts reports on the latest steps in the three-way amalgamation bid.
• Outen about to share wisdom.
• Part-time FDs dominate NHS.
• Show ponies need not apply.
• SME accountants reign in Spain.
• SMEs given charitable incentive.
• Software detects 'inside jobs'.
• Softworld puts IAS on the map.
• SOX costs UK car maker 10m [pounds sterling].
• Stop press.
• Student endures ordeal at sea: Camilla Berens describes how a shipwreck scuppered one woman's CIMA studies.
• to rewrite dictionary.
• Treasury comes clean.
• UK companies 'play into the hands' of hackers.
• War on terror costs Met dear: the capital's regular police services are short of money.
• Watchdog puts more final-salary schemes at risk.
• Web offers environmental aid.
• Whitehall FDs to get qualified: Mandarins are under pressure to gain relevant credentials.
• You have to be in it to win it.
• Alternative Investment Market roars back to life with record levels of trading activity.
• ASB seeks views on convergence.
• Audit threshold raised to 5.6m [pounds sterling]: the change is expected to save SMEs 94 million [pounds sterling], while an increased turnover threshold should help more to gain from tax incentives.
• Charity calls on CIMA expertise to fund mine-clearances in Angola.
• CIMA changes rules for MIPs.
• CIMA puts ethics at the heart of its new syllabus.
• CIMA visiting professor lecture.
• Customs clamps down on VAT fraud.
• Employers urged to revise benefits: the jobs market for financial professionals is hotting up.
• Firms count cost of poor expense management.
• FRC names Boyle as CEO.
• FSA plans external risk audits.