| Irish M&A slumps to E1.5 billion in quarter one |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| M&A transactions in Ireland have fallen sharply in the first quarter of 2001, and industry expectations are that deals are continuing to run at reduced levels during the current quarter. |
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| Irish pension providers need to focus on risk management |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Risk management was a core theme of the recent IAPF ‘European Pensions and Investing Summit’. |
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| M&A qualitative survey methodology |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The survey relates to corporate finance events which change in some way the management and control of a business or two businesses together. |
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| Making IT investments pay their way |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Owen Purcell reveals that recognising bad investments is the first step to making the most from e-finance. |
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| OECD calls for coherent and determined approach to Ireland’s regulatory reforms |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The OECD has just completed a review of Ireland’s regulatory reforms and is broadly supportive of the changes being made in the country. |
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| Online dealing launched |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Goodbody’s Stockbrokers has launched an online share dealing service - ‘Goodbody Online’. |
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| Opinion divided over trigger for restructuring |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The question was: ‘What could most likely trigger a wave of corporate restructuring in Irish second line stocks?’ |
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| OUBS offers fast track training in accounting |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The Open University Business School is launching a new Certificate in Accounting and with it a new route into the accounting profession. |
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| Proactive management is the key to staff retention |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Identifying bad managers and training them to become good managers is the key to staff retention writes Deiric McCann who believes that people leave people not jobs. |
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| Reading the entrails |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The Exchequer returns for the first quarter of the year have been published. Some commentators saw in the rate of increase of tax receipts, evidence of a slow-down in the economy. How useful are tax figures as a measure of the economy? |
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| Relief for the charitable |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The Finance Act has made substantial changes to tax reliefs for voluntary donations. New conditions must be met to obtain relief, new mechanisms exist to deliver the relief, and the limits to relief. |
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| Salary levels in finance forecast to grow by 6.6 p.c. in 2001 |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Salary levels for top management, including finance, in Ireland are predicted to increase by an average of 6.6 per cent in 2001, according to a recently published management compensation survey by Watson Wyatt. |
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| Small countries to gain most - Mundell |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Ireland and Luxembourg were singled out as being amongst the biggest gainers from the euro and the single European capital market by professor of economics at Columbia University and 1999 Nobel Laureate, Robert Mundell speaking in Dublin. |
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| Smoothing the FX path with CLS |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| Continuous Linked Settlement is a step forward in the search for a solution to eliminate settlement risk in FX trading but so far no Irish banks are participating. |
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| Sound exits need sound capital markets |
Issue: 04 / 2001 |
| The recent stockmarket aversions to high tech and telecoms companies has left the international market jittery and, according to Ruairi O Nuallain, this demonstrates the need for sound investment principles when approaching mergers and acquisitions. |
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