No. 2010, November 2010

Index

• CIMA and its members must be team players and help emerging economies worldwide to help themselves.
• CIMA is helping women to close the deplorable gulf in pay and prospects between the sexes.
• CIMA professionals must grasp the opportunity to set their businesses on an ethical course.
• Executive bonuses are not intrinsically wrong, but they must reward performance that's sustainable.
• Gaining influence in your organisation means being up there to be shot at, but it's a risk worth taking.
• Help to govern your institute and ensure that it remains the pre-eminent voice of your profession.
• Let's apply some lateral thinking to the challenges of making business truly sustainable.
• The Western model of governance is flawed, so perhaps it's time to look to Asia for inspiration.
• There's no value in being modest about the expertise CIMA and its members bring to the table.
• Accountants enjoy Brazil boom.
• Be a report thought leader.
• Charity finance up for debate.
• Charity seeks expertise.
• Cut smarter not deeper, urges Tilley.
• Fire precautions.
• FTSE 100 companies prefer CEOs with accounting experience.
• Get your act together on bribery law.
• Hiring activity on the rise.
• IASB names next chairman.
• IESBA publishes plans for ethical guidance.
• Intervening moments.
• Keen for lean.
• MBA holders gain quick way to ACMA.
• Mid-size firms keep it tight.
• Move over, darling.
• OECD calls for transparency.
• Previous conviction.
• Recipe for reform released.
• Rethink boards' rewards, says CIMA.
• SA urged to step up anti-corruption fight.
• Self-preservation society.
• Share your dearest prudence.
• SMEs spend to save.
• The council of Europe.
• Victory for HK undergrads.
• Virtue unrewarded?
• When push comes to shove.
• Whitehall calls on SMEs to join its supply chain.
• Who audits the auditors?
• Win for Wim and FM.
• World title bout in KL.
• A feather in our cap.
• Asian students shine in exams.
• Bangladeshi breakthrough.
• Breakthrough on corruption in Asia.
• CEOs get sustainable.
• Chinese firms to face environmental rating.
• CIMA pledges to slash [CO.sub.2] emissions.
• CIMA report calls for more holistic approach to risk.
• Emerging economies rebound from crisis.
• Huge growth in international work placements predicted.
• IFAC issues guidance.
• Institite issues blueprint for boardroom reform.
• Investors show disquiet on blue-chip boards' pay.
• Lawyers warn of discrimination risk.
• M&As on slide.
• Maldives market goes CarbonNeutral.
• Mid-size firms gain confidence.
• MoD faces finance flak.
• NGOs gain financial conflict resolution guide.
• OECD reveals bribery data.
• Peru tops world for microfinance backing.
• Tilley joins committee on sustainability accounting.
• Bahrain course opens.
• CIMA study shortlisted for 'sustainability nobel'.
• Hemant Patel FCMA: retail finance director, Asda.
• IASB seeks feedback on financial liabilities plan.
• IFAC seeks views on future of accounting.
• Ingrid Fernandes FCMA: finance and logistics director, Legoland Windsor.
• Institute expands its awards.
• Japanese firms go overseas for talent.
• Lewis Booth FCMA executive vice-president and CFO, Ford Motor company worldwide.
• MP3 from HMRC.
• OECD talks tough.
• One2one: group managing director, Northern Racing.
• PwC highlights gaps in Basel III draft.
• Students offered tailored lifelong learning support.
• White elephants in whitehall.
• Asia's big business schools go global.
• CIMA backs WCOA.
• CIMA salary survey reveals growing workloads.
• CIMA stresses ethical role.
• Further findings: Ireland.
• Legislation on sick leave gets facelift.
• Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
• Poll finds green shoots.
• The CIMA annual awards 2009.
• UN charts out first world statistics day.
• US regulators crack down on bribery abroad.
• Ellena Au FCMA CEO, KanTec business consulting, Beijing, and past president of the CIMA Hong Kong Division.
• Nikki Walker FCMA director of inclusion and diversity, Europe, Cisco Systems.
• P M Kam FCMA CEO, Hong Kong Financial Reporting Council.
• Stephen Bolton FCMA: head of global audit and risk, Diageo.
• Attitude and longitude: Roger Malone reports on a CIMA study comparing the changing roles and expectations of financial managers in the East and West.
• Cloudy, with a chance of write-downs: research suggests that many of Europe's biggest firms have yet to report the full extent of their goodwill impairment charges on acquisitions made between 2005 and 2008. Marc Hayn offers a grim forecast.
• Group finance director, Ricardo.
• That was the tweak that was: the new UK corporate governance code retains the light touch of its predecessor, but there are some notable changes. Simon Holden discusses them.
• You're tired! Apprenticeship funding needs an overhaul, urges Paul Driscoll.
• Auto repair: emerging markets are key to car firms' recovery. Scott Payton reports on a formerly nationalistic sector now chasing global alliances and buyers.
• Incorporated social responsibility: authentic CSR is an attitude that pervades every business decision, rather than a stand-alone activity to be departmentalised, argues Mike Brooks.