Finance and Management Faculty special reports

An in-depth look at a major topic, written by specialists in each area. Replaced the previous Management Quarterly and Good Practice Guidelines series.

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  • Special report: Behavioural economics

    This special report highlights the importance of understanding the human behaviour in our choice selection. It introduces the key behavioural principles that you should be familiar with as business professionals. Business applications are explored through practical examples including project appraisal, pricing and securing investment.

  • Special report: Communication skills

    This special report encompasses a number of articles from experts in various aspects of communication, providing a guide to the key issues that accountants should be aware of and offering some practical tips for improving performance. These areas include interpersonal skills, public speaking, communicating information and numbers, social media and communicating across cultures and generations.

  • Special report: Balanced scorecard

    This special report discusses how to ensure success, the technology available to support the tool and how to incorporate your business strategic objectives into your balanced scorecard.

  • Special report: Project management

    This special report provides both an overview of project management and a discussion of current issues and challenges that most project teams face.

  • Special Report: Personal development for accountants in business

    This report covers the core areas of personal development that professional accountants will find invaluable in progressing their careers.

  • Special report: Finance transformation - the outsourcing perspective

    The authors of this outsourcing special report share their expertise on topics including service level agreements, people management, and innovation and technology.

  • Special report: Developing a vision for your business

    This special report looks at what makes a good vision, the benefits of having one, the role of the FD in the process, leadership, storytelling and the use of visions in medium-sized businesses.

  • Special report: IFRS briefing

    These concise and easy to use briefing notes provide summaries of all the consolidated versions of IFRSs in non-technical language.

  • Special report: Starting a business

    This report will provide you with a realistic and motivational overview of what to consider when starting a business.

  • Special report: Investment appraisal

    This special report looks at the key issues and advises managers on how they can contribute effectively to decision making and control during the process of investment appraisal.

  • Special report: Wrongful trading

    This report was produced in response to concerns raised by the faculty committee about aspects of wrongful trading that they felt were unclear or confusing. In particular, comments were made about the potential use of hindsight in judging whether wrongful trading has occurred.

  • Special report: Psychometrics in business

    This report will provide you with a good overview of what psychometrics is, where it can be usefully employed, the pros and cons of the numerous methods and, importantly, where to go for more information

  • Special report: Innovation

    Innovation may seem to be a purely creative process. However, as the authors explain, by following an established set of principles, the transformation of ideas into product can be harnessed to achieve maximum value.