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Gareth Gallagher Managing Director at Sacyr Concessions The biggest challenge over the last two years was having to continue operating our assets fully in as safe a way as possible [...]

Internal auditors are required to use their professional judgment when evaluating the effectiveness of an organization's internal controls, corporate governance, and risk management practices. To do that effciently, audit programs [...]

Before the season started, English Premier League football club Leicester City were 5,000-toone longshots to win the title. In fact, they were the odds-on favorite to finish at the bottom [...]

Managing organizations means managing people, and people have powerful motivations that shape their beliefs and judgments. These motivations can lead to disastrous business outcomes when they bias crucial decisions, such [...]

The new normal is no longer new; it's just reality. Governments simply have to generate more value to meet rising demands with the constrained resources that are available. Most jurisdictions [...]

In today's economic climate, many companies are throwing an abundance of resources at profitability, or 'value capture,' initiatives. While the intention of these initiatives is good, the reality is that [...]

The benefits of lean are well known. For instance, it isn't uncommon for a lean enterprise to see lead times and floor-space needs drop, on-time deliveries rise, and inventory levels [...]

The management accountant is a trusted business advisor at all levels, whether it's processing transactions with accuracy and integrity or helping an organization to envision and realize the future enabled [...]

In his book Management Challenges for the 21st Century, management and strategy guru Peter Drucker writes: 'Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that [...]

Asked about his succession plan, the CEO of a major U.S. corporation recently responded that he carries in his pocket a paper with the name of his replacement, should he [...]

IT'S NO SECRET THAT BIG OPPORTUNITIES OFTEN PRESENT themselves in periods of great uncertainty. But when times are challenging, as they are today, it can be difficult to see the [...]

The influence of managerial roles on business performance management of a firm is analyzed.

Byline: Bonnie McGeer Michelle Stacy sometimes brings an apple into meetings for an object lesson in resolving conflict. 'I'd come in and I'd plop the apple in the middle of [...]

Byline: Bonnie McGeer Michelle Stacy sometimes brings an apple into meetings for an object lesson in resolving conflict. 'I'd come in and I'd plop the apple in the middle of [...]

Byline: Pat Voll How do you change your culture to create the one you want? How do you launch it, nurture it, and have it become the business accelerator that [...]

Environmental analysis is the detailed evaluation of external forces and conditions that affect an organisation now or may do so in the future. It is an extremely important topic, not [...]

As with most sage advice, we often receive it too early in our careers to truly appreciate it. Yet one message that caught my attention as a recent college graduate [...]

Stakeholders want to make sure the companies in which they have an interest are managed responsibly, with a balance of efficiency and resiliency. This scrutiny reflects the growing sophistication of [...]

The art of management is to get a group of people to work together toward achieving stated goals. Traditional managers discharge their responsibilities through planning, organizing, leading, and controlling or [...]

Byline: Douglas Smith Can you think of at least one new move you've wanted to make in your business-but haven't? Last week I facilitated a workshop for a group of [...]

Byline: Charlotte Vitty 01. Rise early or work late? My husband will confirm that I am certainly not a rise early girl. I have never been a clock watcher so [...]

Byline: L. Gary Boomer Do you have the right players? Are they willing to play as a team? These are questions that successful coaches must answer. Head coaches employ assistant [...]

Byline: Louise Thaxton The great Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones is very well known for this quote: 'You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for [...]

01. Rise early or work late? I'm definitely a morning person. I like to get to the office early. I have young children so I try to make it home [...]

Byline: Secret FD Before I became a finance director and CFO, I remember a December board meeting, when the chairman asked the CEO and CFO: 'What do you need in [...]

Byline: Brad Finkelstein Many people see their priorities shifting in life. They have a goal, work towards achieving it and then decide they would rather achieve success in a different [...]

Byline: Brad Finkelstein The new mortgage origination paradigm must include building relationships and networking, skill sets that many new to the business did not learn or chose to neglect during [...]

Byline: Brad Finkelstein Success can come from taking advantage of opportunities others don't want and having the strength to do what's right even in tough times. The advantage that Chris [...]

Byline: Robert Bruce There is a great culture clash at the heart of corporate governance. One side is knee-deep in codes, formality and process. The other simply looks at what [...]

Byline: August Aquila Is your accounting firm healthy or sick? And how can you tell the difference? There are several symptoms of a sick firm. Below are the main ones [...]

Byline: Rebecca Ryan I frequently get questions from partners, high potentials and others in CPA firms about how to handle sticky management issues. Here are three situations that won't go [...]

Byline: Bliss Sawyer This year, 2011, marks my 20th year in the mortgage business and my seventh year coaching and training. It always amazes me how time seems to have [...]

Byline: Brad Finkelstein If the fear of public speaking is the No. 1 dread for Americans, the fear of change might be No. 2. Author Erica Jong has stated, 'I [...]

Byline: Douglass Smith Actor and comedian Woody Allen once said, 'Eighty percent of success in life is just showing up.' I don't know why Woody Allen said that-but he did-and [...]

Byline: Karen Deis We are all familiar with the mighty Mississippi River. But if you were to visit its headwaters in Itasca State Park, Minn., you'd be shocked to find [...]

The signs are identified that indicate management override and steps that can be taken to address the signs are discussed. The frauds that can occur during an audit and escape the eyes of the auditor namely the obvious ones and the ones that are not obvious are presented.

Most senior finance executives--76%--believe that meeting business performance targets is going to become more challenging over the next two years, according to a recent CFO Research survey on performance management [...]

Why is it important to clearly define the responsibilities of the three lines of defense? STIPPICH In simplest terms, it's important to have a coordinated division of labor. Without this, [...]

We may be living in the Information Age, but, ironically, we rarely think carefully about how information might improve how we work. Instead, we tend to think about the technology [...]

Questions about single-company financial statements have been a standard feature of Fl papers since they were introduced in May 2010. They also appeared regularly in the P7 exam under the [...]

Creativity is rare. Needlessly. It's rare in individuals because of the way the mind works. It's rare in groups because of the way groups respond to new ideas. But by [...]

Two consultants with Booz & Co. conclude in their new book that a strategy that promotes growth outside a company's comfort zone--at the expense of doing what a company does [...]

1 Grasp the scale of the problem There are two types of organisational complexity: the kind that creates value to give your firm a competitive advantage or helps solve knotty [...]

Some of the aspects of the new UCITS IV Directive (Directive 2009/65/EC) which will facilitate these changes in the managers' modus operandi are as follows: * It will become easier [...]

The inventor of the Balanced Scorecard, author of numerous strategy books, and adviser to Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Robert S Kaplan was in Dublin recently to lead a half day [...]

As lean, hungry newcomers enter the market and compete for your customers, how do you make sure that your business survives and thrives? Richard Wheatley has some practical advice. 'We're [...]