| EU Law can lower tax |
Issue: 07 / 2003 |
| Irish corporates have an opportunity to reduce their tax bills by using EU law. Cases currently before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) are likely to overturn our existing understanding of tax rules. |
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| Keeping track of the markets |
Issue: 07 / 2003 |
| As general manager, group planning and marketing, at Friends First, a typical day in the life for John Cunningham involves monitoring Friends First’s marketing strategy and dealing with compliance issues, as well as getting involved in securities lending firm Guild Global Securities, of which he is vice-chairman. |
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| Tax Monitor
Tax Risks |
Issue: 07 / 2003 |
| How many companies think of taxation in terms of risk? The tax system exposes companies to risks that could on a bad day wipe out their cash flow, destroy their profitability, breach their bank covenants, destroy their reputation with the public, require restatement of accounts and absorb huge amounts of management time. Do boards and chief executives have their heads in the sand when it comes to tax? |
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| The next Budget |
Issue: 07 / 2003 |
| The next Budget may come sooner than you think! Have you prepared for it? |
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| ABS issuance and Interest rate outlook |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| In what has been a quiet year so far for domestic securitisation issuance, EBS Building Society has kick-started the market with the first issue of the year, a €750 million mortgage backed security (MBS). |
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| Bankers appeal to Government |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| ‘We need the Government and its agencies to play the constructive role that they in turn want us to play, and I take this opportunity to appeal to them to do just that,’ Donal Forde, president of the Irish Bankers’ Federation (IBF), and managing director of AIB, told attendees at the IBF’s annual general meeting held on April 30th. |
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| Benefits in kind |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| Employers are facing increased cost in providing employees with benefits in kind. The cost arises both in terms of PRSI and in terms of administration. The area may be the subject of a greater focus by Revenue auditors in the future. |
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| Bringing enterprise to banking |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| Vincent Fennelly, head of enterprise finance within Bank of Ireland’s Specialist Business Bank, keeps an eye out for opportunities in the venture capital market. |
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| Crunching the numbers - the value of outsourcing for banks |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| While outsourcing is now increasingly common for corporates, with companies such as Exel Logistics outsourcing its European shared financial services center to Accenture, Stuart McLaughlin writes that due to competitive pressures, banks are now looking to outsourcing to save money. |
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| Diary of a Deal: alphyra MBO breaks new ground |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| The MBO of alphyra was one of the most high profile and at times controversial MBOs of the recent genre of public to private transactions. |
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| Diary of a deal: the N4/N6 Kilcock - Kinnegad Motorway |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| Eamonn O'Hanrahan and Colm Fanning detail the events that led up to the financial close on March 24th, 2003, of the first roads public private partnership project - the Kilcock-Kinnegad motorway. |
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| EBS closes first Irish securitisation deal of the year |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| EBS Building Society has raised €750 million in funding following the completion of its latest mortgage-backed securitisation (MBS) issue - Emerald No.3. |
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| Finance function tools and techniques in context |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| Irish managers are faced with a near bewildering array of management tools and techniques. But to what extent are organisations using them in Ireland, how are they being used and are managers satisfied with the impact that they have made? John Cullen decided to find the answers. |
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| Financial Reporting - an endangered discipline? |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| The role of accounting numbers has come under close scrutiny in the last decade. Antoinette Flynn investigates the changing role of financial reporting. |
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| Further uncertainty for pension funds into 2003 |
Issue: 05 / 2003 |
| Eamonn Liddy summarises the fortunes of Irish pension managed funds into 2003 and examines the outlook going forward. |
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