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Special Report 39: Leadership
- Dec 2012
- PDF (572kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
This special report on leadership has been compiled to point you in the right direction in your leadership search. The authors all firmly support the idea that, although some leaders may be born, many more are made, and the appropriate training and support forms a vital component in this development.
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Special report 38: Lean thinking
- Sep 2012
- PDF (354kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Our special report outlines the core concepts and thought processes behind the lean philosophy and aims to provide yoiu with the fundamental tools to help you get started with adopting a lean framework.
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Special Report 37: Decision making
- Jun 2012
- PDF (475kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
This special report aims to provide an overview of the key aspects you should understand to improve your current processes. The report is split into two sections - 'Practical tips' offers useful guidance including a case study and experiences from members of the faculty committee and 'The big picture' examines the theory behind the process from a leadership and data quality perspective.
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Special Report 36: Behavioural economics
- Mar 2012
- PDF (789kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
This 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.
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Special Report 34: Balanced scorecard
- Oct 2011
- PDF (442kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
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.
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Special Report 33: Project Management
- Jun 2011
- PDF (275kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
This special report provides both an overview of project management and a discussion of current issues and challenges that most project teams face.
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Special Report 32: Personal development for accountants in business
- Mar 2011
- PDF (322kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
This report covers the core areas of personal development that professional accountants will find invaluable in progressing their careers.
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Special Report 31: Finance transformation - the outsourcing perspective
- Dec 2010
- PDF (306kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
The authors of this outsourcing special report share their expertise on topics including service level agreements, people management, and innovation and technology.
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Special Report 30: Developing a vision for your business
- Sep 2010
- PDF (440kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
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.
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Special Report 27: Investment appraisal
- Dec 2009
- PDF (171kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
A review of a topical theme within the subject areas of finance and management, offering both analysis of the relevant theory and review of the practical application of appropriate management techniques.
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Special Report 25: Psychometrics in business
- Jun 2009
- PDF (225kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
OPP provides an overview of why and how to measure personality to manage the risk of human capital decisions. It includes a review of different types of psychometrics, where they can be usefully employed and the pros and cons, and the impact they can have on performance and effectiveness at work.
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Special Report 24: Innovation
- Mar 2009
- PDF (321kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
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.
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Special Report 23: The value blueprint
- Dec 2008
- PDF (1,124kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Companies in the UK, US and all around the world are facing unprecedented challenges in the current economic crisis. Just as it is too soon to know how deep and prolonged this downturn will be, it is also too soon to tell which companies will meet these challenges successfully and which will struggle to perform – this will only become clear over a longer timescale.
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Special Report 20: Internal control from a risk-based perspective
- Mar 2008
- PDF (390kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
This special report, which looks at internal control from a risk-based perspective, could not have come at a more fitting time. Recent events at France’s Société Générale highlight how even the largest and most highly regulated businesses can be severely compromised by the apparent failure of internal controls.
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Special Report 17: Financial modelling
- Sep 2007
- PDF (1,386kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Spreadsheet-based financial models are widely used to support key processes and decision-making in all sizes of business.
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Special Report 15: Unlocking overhead value
- Mar 2007
- PDF (370kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Much current thinking rightly advocates the finance director (FD) as a business partner, focusing on driving forward the strategic objectives of the business. However, while taking on this demanding role, the FD or financial controller will still need to keep a firm hand on the finances.
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Special Report 13: Benchmarking finance accounting
- Sep 2006
- PDF (1,157kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Build your foundation and achieve measurable process improvement.
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Special report 12: Resource allocation tools
- Jun 2006
- PDF (1,729kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Cost and risk analyses, Project prioritisation analyses, Resource consumption reviews.
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Special report 10: Risk management
- Dec 2005
- PDF (1,302kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
The management of risk has come a long way in the last 10 years. When we first wrote a guideline for the Faculty, the term ‘risk management’ was still evolving.
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Special Report 9: Performance measurement
- Sep 2005
- PDF (586kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Measuring the performance of investment in corporate activity is one of the most difficult challenges for the finance director (FD), who is often charged with ensuring value for money from these activities. Hard performance measures such as return on investment, economic value added, sales, profits etc. are available, but functional activities usually have no independent objective measures.
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Special Report 8: Evaluating performance in information technology
- Jun 2005
- PDF (469kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Though there has been significant discussion concerning the importance of evaluating the payoffs of investment in information technoology (IT), there has been little guidance as to how to design or implement an appropriate performance evaluation system.
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Special report 6: Human resources - accountability
- Dec 2004
- PDF (338kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Central to the long-term success of any enterprise are the productivity of its employees and the quality of their performance. Accordingly, the human resources (HR) function plays a major role in the achievement of organisational goals and strategies by providing policies, programmes and services for the company’s employees.
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Special report 5: From outsourcing to offshoring
- Oct 2004
- PDF (641kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Cutting costs in the finance function, The rise and rise of offshoring.
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Special report 4: Better budgeting
- Jul 2004
- PDF (548kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
A report on the Better Budgeting forum from CIMA and ICAEW
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Special report 3: Strategic planning
- May 2004
- PDF (827kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
Making and implementing strategic choices, The role of the finance director, The core elements of corporate strategy
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Special Report 2: The future of the finance director
- Mar 2004
- PDF (1,125kb)
- Finance & Management Faculty
A poll of Faculty members on trends, Interviews with FDs/CFOs, How others see finance, The agenda – skills and integrity
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Special Report 1: New reporting models
- Jan 2004
- PDF (400kb)
- Brian Singleton-Green
Should business reporting be reformed? In this special paper for Faculty members, Brian Singleton-Green looks at the key ideas for reform and at the issues they raise.
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