| Lateral thinking key to product success |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| Product innovation in financial services means combining hitherto separate offerings, says Simon Glancy. |
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| Methodology |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| The survey was carried out in the last part of June and early July 2001. Finance does not seek to verify the data reported by each firm. |
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| Navigating the maze of obstacles and making shared service centres work |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| Marian Corcoran examines the evolving role of the finance director, and writes on how shared services can help in providing increased cost-efficiency. |
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| Obstacles listed to single market |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| Forum to discuss the tax obstacles to the provision of pan-European pensions hears that test case may be imminent and that multinationals are stepping closer to pan-European pension provision. |
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| Rate of salary growth slows but bonuses on the rise |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| Bearish predictions on the industry-wide increase in salaries over the coming year suggests that the accountancy industry is not immune from economic slowdown. |
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| Salary growth slows to single digit annual increase |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| Fee income rises to over ?400 million in Annual Finance Accountancy Survey. |
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| Staff up 6 per cent in 2001 |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| While staff numbers in the accountancy industry were up by 6 per cent there is a noticeable fall off in the number of professional staff being recruited. |
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| Stock lending takes off at the ISE |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| The popularity of stock lending has increased rapidly at the Irish Stock Exchange over the last number of months and is expected to grow substantially over the next few years. |
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| Tax avoidance hammered |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| In the Westmoreland case the House of Lords recently retreated from the doctrine that tax avoidance should always be treated as ineffective. Within a few months, however, the UK VAT Tribunal have adopted what seems like a similar doctrine in the area of Value Added Tax. If this is successful it could have implications in Ireland. |
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| Taxing losses |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| Corporation tax should be paid only on profits. That seems a reasonable proposition. Yet our tax system is designed so that a company with net losses may still pay taxes. This needs to be reviewed. |
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| The future for accountancy looks strong |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| Managing partners from leading accountancy firms in Ireland participated in an e-forum conducted by Finance to address the issues faced by the industry. The participants were Jerome Kennedy from KPMG, Donal O’Connor from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Pat Kenny from Deloitte & Touche and Roderick Ryan from Andersen. |
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| Treasury consultant |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| Declan McGivern, managing director, MATRIX Treasury Consultants… ‘MATRIX made a decision on commencement of the business to hire only people who had held positions in treasuries in either corporate or financial institutions. There’s no substitute for experience!’. |
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| Venture capital firm backs Irish prospects |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
| European venture capital company 3i, plans to significantly grow its current Irish investment portfolio of £48 million over the next five years despite any potential slowdown in the Irish economy, according to Clive Austin, director of 3i Ireland. |
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| Who's who in Finance: Brian D Cooper, Inward Investment Director, Barclays Bank PLC |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
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| Who’s who in Finance: Caroline Devlin, Partner, Arthur Cox |
Issue: 07 / 2001 |
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