Financial Planning

Financial Planning In Depth Features

Fingers in Many Pies

Freedom to manoeuvre means CFO Pell isn't looking to go permanent

• Risk appetite is returning but has it matured?

  Risk is inevitable, but CFOs and boards are more aware nowadays and ready to face it head on

• Euro fragmentation: how's your risk planning?

  Scenario planning for all situations is vital as the euro crisis deepens, experts warn

• Budgeting: the most ineffective management practice?

  Management guru Jack Welch described budgeting as ‘the most ineffective practice in management’. Some finance chiefs probably agree with him

• What happened to the 50p tax rate exodus?

  We were warned that talented individuals would flee the 50p tax rate - so where have they gone?

• Will the chancellor's plans shorten the economic woes?

  There is no shortage of advice from both sides of the political divide on what to do about the economy

• PFI: the only way to finance capital projects?

  Much of PFI is off-balance sheet; a practice now mostly disallowed in company accounts

• XBRL: A brave new world

  XBRL can transform the way businesses use financial data but the transition may be evolutionary rather than revolutionary