| A DAY IN THE LIFE
Delegation - key to a sane life |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| Darina Barrett, assurance partner at KPMG, spends a busy day dealing with career reviews, client meetings and organising her marketing trip to New York, but still makes time for daughter Leah. |
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| Andersen Consulting to change name to Accenture |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| Shared services are at the heart of Andersen Consulting's business. The company has its European shared services centre in Dublin with 16 countries service from the ‘state of the art facility’ and it is from Dublin that the IT operations of 26000 consultants are co-ordinated. |
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| Bond ranges narrowed in Q3 |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| Bond forecasts and outcome |
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| Changing the accounts |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| FRS12 is an accounting standard which has codified the basis upon which provisions, contingent liabilities and contingent assets are recognised and disclosed in accounts. The Revenue Commissioners have set out their policy on the application of tax rules to accounts prepared in accordance with FRS12. |
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| E-business not yet revolutionising financial institutions |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| European financial institutions do not believe that e-business is revolutionising business today, according to a survey carried out by consultancy firm Arthur D. Little. |
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| EDITORIAL |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| Taking stock |
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| Employment law aspects of acquiring a business or company |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| David O’Donnell and Kevin Langford remind buyers and sellers of key employment law issues to be aware of when entering an acquisition. |
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| Entry strategy crucial to success of Pensions Reserve Fund |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| In a paper given to the Dublin Economic Workshop in Kenmare, John Corrigan, a Director at the NTMA, set out how the new Pension Reserve Fund could be launched, how investment managers could be chosen and how to match its liabilities. He introduced the subject by looking at strategic asset allocation approaches such as efficient frontier analysis and went on to analyse how risk return trade-offs could be addressed within the context of the broad investment mandate for the Pensions Reserve Fund and the overseeing Commission, included in the Bill being brought through the Oireachtas presently. The following are edited extracts from his paper. |
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| Ernst and Young appoints tax expert as managing partner |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| Ernst & Young is the latest accountancy firm to appoint a tax partner at their helm. Oliver O'Connor interviewed Paul Smith on his agenda for the coming term. |
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| EU gives go ahead to pension fund investment in risk capital markets |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| The European Commission recently adopted a proposal for a Directive on the prudential supervision of supplementary pension funds. |
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| Investment business regulation |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| The following is an outline of requirments for investment businesses. It is based on the Central Bank’s Guide to Authorisation under the Investment Intermediaries Act. |
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| Pooling of resources driving corporates’ cash management systems |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| One of the largest international treasury and cash management conferences - the 9th Annual Conference on International Cash and Treasury Management - was held in Dublin in late October. A key finding of relevance to corporate treasurers were the findings at the conference on the consolidation of cash management systems driving change in treasury structures among European corporates. |
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| Retirement relief |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| Retirement relief has little to do with retirement but it is nonetheless a relief. Its main role is in passing on family businesses from one generation to the next. |
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| Survey shows emergence of new firms in stockbroking |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| Davy Stockbrokers has again been voted the top rated stockbroking firm in Ireland, in this year’s Finance Stockbroking Survey. |
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| Tax Monitor
Watching the small things |
Issue: 11 / 2000 |
| The budget on December 6th is eagerly awaited. The debate as to its contents centres on how to meet political pledges while restraining inflation. There are other technical issues that hopefully will engage the Minister's attention, even if they don't figure largely in his speech. |
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