Table of contents
Current Account ‐ Industry's Cash Flow
Desmond GochWith growing redundancies and short‐time working in many sectors of British industry, the struggle to survive—and in some cases, to avoid Government intervention—has centred…
Cash Management in ICI
Alan W. ClementsAn article on cash management in a multinational company like ICI can easily become boringly factual and descriptive. I propose, therefore, in this short paper to attempt to do…
The Presentation of Financial Information to Employees
A.H. TaylorA growing practice in industry. It has been for many years the custom of a number of industrial companies to publish summaries of their financial results for the information of…
Financial Reporting in the EEC
Michael J. LaffertySurprising though it may seem, British accountants paid little or no attention to developments in financial reporting on the continent of Europe until the British entry to the…
What Management can Learn from Ratios
M.G. WrightWhy Ratios? The need for ratios rests upon the fact that absolute figures by themselves tell one very little about the performance of an organisation. The fact that a company made…
Corporate Planning ‐ the making of Strategy
D.E. HusseyIt is very easy to obtain agreement that corporate planning is a “good thing”, for the idea of planning has a powerful appeal to logic and reason which few would dare to refute…
What's in a Balance Sheet?
Ray FarmerAn enterprise may appoint a specialist to assume responsibility for financial management, but his achievements will be constrained to the extent that other functional managers, at…
The Evaluation of Share Prices
Michael FirthSince the early 1960s there has been a considerable increase in formalised investment analysis in the UK. This can partly be evidenced by the growth in the membership of the…
Direct Investment Abroad: Exchange Control and other matters
H.S.A. MacnairIn this article the writer looks at the framework of exchange control and explains those aspects concerned with the financing of direct investment abroad. The emphasis is on cash…
Why Accounting Standards Matter to Management
J.M. RenshallThe new accounting standards promulgated by the major accountancy bodies under the aegis of the Accounting Standards Steering Committee have resulted in a remarkable advance in…
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- Professor Don Johnson