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Governance, risk and compliance software promises a single place to hold the risk register, the controls, the policies, the incidents and the audit findings — replacing the spreadsheets and shared…
Read articleCompany accounts are no longer documents as far as the authorities are concerned. They are data. Every set of accounts and computation filed with a corporation tax return must be tagged in iXBRL —…
Read articleAfter a death, the family wants to start clearing the house and the bank wants a grant of probate before it will release anything. Between those two facts sits a period of uncertainty in which…
Read articleDebt advisory is the work of getting a business the right borrowing on the right terms — and, more often than owners expect, of establishing that the borrowing it has is the wrong shape. It is not…
Read articleNot every organisation needs a data protection officer, and a good many that have appointed one have appointed the wrong person. The role is defined in law, carries statutory protections, and…
Read articleBusiness continuity planning is the work of deciding, in advance and in writing, how the organisation keeps operating when something takes a critical part of it away. Not what caused it — plans…
Read articleBetween "a bookkeeper one day a week" and "a finance director on the payroll" there is a gap that most growing businesses fall into. Turnover has reached the point where the numbers matter and…
Read articleNarrative reporting is everything in an annual report that is not the numbers: the strategic report, the directors' report, the governance disclosures and, increasingly, the sustainability…
Read articleMost of what a modern business is worth does not appear on its balance sheet. The brand, the customer relationships, the software, the data, the assembled workforce — all of it drives the price a…
Read articleThe purchase ledger is the record of what a business owes its suppliers: every invoice received, every payment made, and the balance outstanding on each account. It is the least glamorous ledger…
Read articleGranting share options costs the company nothing in cash, and that is exactly why the accounting surprises people. Under both FRS 102 and IFRS 2, an option granted to an employee is remuneration…
Read articleAn external audit is an independent opinion on whether a set of financial statements gives a true and fair view. It is not a search for fraud, not a health check on the business, and not a…
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