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Published on: 20 May 2013
Do you drive a Ferrari? Now whilst some of you may be lucky enough to say “yes” and some of you may be ambitious enough to say “not yet”, my guess is that most of you will answer “no” to that question. If you do however happen to be in the enviable position of being [...]
Published on: 12 May 2013
Studying for a professional qualification is tough. Anyone who has been successful in obtaining a qualification will know that it involves hard work. There are benefits though and in some situations these benefits can be significant. It’s not just the improved knowledge and clarity of understanding that you’ll get from your studying but if we’re [...]
Published on: 09 May 2013
Ernst & Young has just released their report on their 2013 Fraud Survey covering Europe, Middle East, India and Africa. There were some interesting, and some would say disturbing findings. 20% of the employees who were surveyed were aware of financial manipulation in their own company in the last 12 months. If you move higher [...]
Published on: 03 May 2013
A lot of the readers of this blog are either studying finance or working in a finance job. A lot of you no doubt enjoy eating at a restaurant now and then and can remember some favourite places you’ve eaten in the past. I’m sure though that there aren’t many of you that have combined [...]
Published on: 25 Apr 2013
I’ve got a couple of friends who are keen surfers. If you speak to them they will tell you that successful surfing is all down to getting the timing right and catching the wave at the right moment. It looks like timing is also an important issue if you happen to hold shares in one [...]
Published on: 23 Apr 2013
An ex-partner at KPMG has been a bit naughty. In fact, he’s been more than a bit naughty as he’s been accused of insider trading. Insider trading is the illegal activity of using information which isn’t in the public domain to make a personal gain or avoid a personal loss. Scott London was a partner [...]
Published on: 12 Apr 2013
It doesn’t matter if you’re a famous film star or not. If you don’t pay your taxes you could get into a lot of trouble. Wesley Snipes, the famous star of films such as the Blade Trilogy and White Men Can’t Jump hasn’t starred in any films during the last 3 years. And the reason [...]
Published on: 04 Apr 2013
A few years ago Blackberry used to be the phone of choice amongst business people but the emergence of Apple’s iPhone and various Android smartphones has resulted in sales of Blackberry phones plummeting. Earlier this year Blackberry launched their new phone, the Z10 and this was seen to be a make or break situation for [...]
Published on: 02 Apr 2013
The Journal of Consumer Research published the results of five experiments into how the level of background noise can impact on performance when someone is working on creative tasks. The results are interesting and in simple terms found that a moderate level of ambient noise is better for enhancing performance on creative tasks than both [...]
Published on: 28 Feb 2013
Gone are the days when auditors were manually checking and ticking lots of pieces of paper. Today’s auditing techniques involve significant use of computers. But how far can this computer use go? Will they be able to predict when accounting fraud is going to take place as opposed to tracking transactions that have already occurred? [...]
