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June/July 2004
Technical articles
- Management control - the role of discipline
- by Jim Stone
- relevant to Paper 1.3
- Relevant costs for decision-making
- by Bev Jay
- relevant to Paper 7
- Alternative dispute resolution
- by David Kelly
- relevant to Paper 2.2
Feature articles
- Celebrating success
- Friends, families, employers and sponsors recently toasted the success of the December 2003 prizewinners at the recent prize-giving event held at ACCA's headquarters
- China Life IPO investigated
- China securitisation, a regulatory 'grey area'
- Membership consultations
- Victoria Ashton attended the recent London membership consultations and took the opportunity to talk to students and affiliates looking for a fast-track route to membership
- Nortel
- The perception that the telecoms sector share bubble was boosted by accounting irregularities has been reinforced by the news that Nortel joins WorldCom, Global Crossing and Qwest as a case of corporate notoriety
- Soft skills shuffle
- Lesley Meall talks to recruitment consultants about which technology skills are the most saleable, and why
- Shell
- It was probably inevitable. The fall-out from the Shell corporate scandal of overstated mineral reserves is beginning to affect the group's two auditors, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and KPMG.
- Musical rights
- Microsoft has launched a new version of its Digital Rights Management (DRM) software which it claims will lead to a major improvement in companies' ability to protect electronically-transmittable intellectual property
- Auditor independence
- Ernst & Young is being challenged by the Inland Revenue over its sale of tax planning advice in an early illustration of the UK Government's drive to clamp down on tax avoidance schemes
- Career tools
- We take a look at the range of career tools and resources ACCA provides to help you gain the practical element of the Professional scheme and CAT scheme qualifications