04/04/2013
VAT – the forty-year-old ‘fiscal theme park’ by Baker Tilly
Lord Justice Sedley famously observed that ‘Beyond the everyday world … lies the world of VAT; a kind of fiscal theme park in which factual and legal realities are suspended or inverted.’
04/04/2013
Standard Life Investments highlights that since the financial crisis, a common response has been to call for more regulation of financial services.
04/03/2013
In parts of the company, there was "a sense that senior management did not want to hear bad news
04/03/2013
The commission accused the trio of a "colossal failure" of management
04/02/2013
Pope Francis, who has said he wants the Catholic Church to be a model of austerity and honesty, could restructure or even close the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank as part of a broad review of its troubled bureaucracy, Vatican sources say.
04/01/2013
Shakespeare the 'hard-headed businessman' uncovered
A new study has found that he was repeatedly prosecuted and fined for illegally hoarding food
04/01/2013
If the chumps in charge of the Eurozone bail outs owned a brewery, they would all be stone cold sober and quite incapable of ever managing any form of festivity.
04/01/2013
After every crash there will always be a handful of experts pointing out that they had seen it all coming years before.
03/31/2013
POLITICIANS need a pretty good reason for interfering in the way that a business pays its employees
03/31/2013
Hollands says that the acquisition is first and foremost about private banking and wealth management, giving Schroders a “pretty significant market share” within the UK.
03/31/2013
Just 43pc of executives said they were completely confident their banks were taking acceptable risks
03/28/2013
Speirs has ambitious growth targets for Sanlam and he views the model adopted by SJP and Towry, which combines restricted advice with in-house products, as his best means of achieving it.
03/27/2013
As the problems in Cyprus continue to make the headlines on a daily basis, we ask whether the sun could soon be setting on its reputation as a tax-favoured holding company location for international groups.
03/27/2013
Patrick Colle kicked-off the event by providing a brief company update, focusing on key 2012 achievements.
03/27/2013
Ryanair is a great example of the way in which a company with a superior business model can generate consistent compound earnings growth
03/26/2013
I refused it flat… I thought this was too high a price to pay
03/25/2013
A relentless diet of pessimism fails to reflect the prospect of better times ahead
03/25/2013
Bank of Cyprus will become a shadow of its former self
03/25/2013
Focus totally on product and service innovation. Maximise delivery efficiency.
03/24/2013
Rich Ricci profile: most of those blamed for the credit crisis have gone to ground, but not this Barclays investment banker
He's become the poster child for the excesses of the investment banking industry