Technical articles
- Accounting and organisational cultures
- 18 Nov 2008
- Graham Morgan describes the Financial Control Culture and the Excellence/Service Culture and the type of performance contracts associated with both
- Business process change
- 11 Sep 2008
- Adrian Thomas describes the effective and efficient business processes required by organisations to effectively implement business strategies
- Strategic planning
- 07 Feb 2008
- David Jennings illustrates the major components of the strategic planning process
- IAS 1, Presentation of Financial Statements
- 17 Jan 2008
- ACCA education adviser Ellie Griffiths outlines the amendments to presentation and terminology following the reissue of IAS 1
- Pass notes - business analysis
- 07 Sep 2007
- Examiner for Paper P3 Steve Skidmore provides guidance for students
- On international terms
- 07 Sep 2007
- student accountant details how the CAT and ACCA Qualification syllabuses will be internationalised from the December 2007 exam session, and highlights the changes to individual papers
- 21 years of textbook strategy
- 16 May 2007
- Ralph Bedrock reflects on why Exploring Corporate Strategy has had such a long-lasting impact on the teaching of strategy
- The role of the accountant in new product development
- 16 May 2007
- Ralph Bedrock considers the strategic significance of accountants in the new product development process
- The seven deadly sins of strategy implementation
- 16 May 2007
- Martin Corboy and Diarmid Corrbui describe the main pitfalls of successful strategy implementation
- The development of global companies
- 16 May 2007
- Geoff Gravil describes the processes of making a company global
- Corporate decline
- 16 May 2007
- David Elliott explores the reasons for corporate decline
- Corporate recovery
- 16 May 2007
- David Elliott considers what can and should be done about corporate decline
- Joint ventures - perfect partners?
- 16 May 2007
- Geoff Gravil looks at the issues surrounding joint ventures
- The strategic planning process - part 2
- 15 May 2007
- In the second of two articles, Sean Purcell explains how to apply your knowledge of management and strategy to a scenario situation
- The strategic planning process
- 15 May 2007
- In the first of two articles, Sean Purcell describes how to apply the concepts of management and strategy
- The power of branding
- 15 May 2007
- Sean Purcell looks at the value of brand names
- Mergers and acquisitions - a problem of culture
- 15 May 2007
- Geoff Gravil outlines some possible reasons why mergers and acquisitions fail to fulfill their potential
- Strategic choices and change management
- 15 May 2007
- Diarmaid Corrbui and Martin Corboy explain that strategy implementation is not always easy, but chances of success should be improved by following six golden rules
- The adaptability of strategic models
- 10 May 2007
- Malcolm Eva discusses how models such as PEST and Value Chain can be used to reflect the evolving business environment and the range of business strategies currently used
- A generic framework for developing an IS strategy
- 10 May 2007
- George Bakehouse and Kevin Doyle describe the decision-making process behind planning an information systems strategy
- Commitment, coordination and communication
- 10 May 2007
- George Bakehouse and Kevin Doyle discusses the relevance of the three Cs when developing and implementing information systems
- Strategic planning models
- 10 May 2007
- Martin Corboy looks at the strategic importance of IT
- A primer on knowledge management
- 09 May 2007
- Peter C Barnes focuses on the issues which are essential to knowledge management
- Quality plans
- 09 May 2007
- Steve Skidmore gives a comprehensive analysis of the Project Quality Plan
- Outsourcing IT/IS services
- 09 May 2007
- Any outsourcing decision needs to be treated with care warns Jim Stone, it can give apparent short-term advantages in cost-reduction but provide a hostage to fortune in the longer term
- The software package approach to information systems development
- 09 May 2007
- Steve Skidmore outlines the software package approach to information systems development
- Outsourcing in the financial services industry
- 27 Apr 2007
- David Jennings, marker for Paper 3.5, reviews the potential benefits and problems of outsourcing, and considers a study of building societies operating in the mortgage market
- Mind the gap
- 27 Apr 2007
- Gareth Owen, ACCA qualifications development manager, provides guidance for students transferring to the new ACCA Qualification in August 2007
- Practical support
- 02 Apr 2007
- student accountant announces the launch of the trainee development matrix and outlines the services and support available to help students achieve their practical experience requirement
- Experience transfer
- 27 Feb 2007
- Guidance on what you can do in preparation to transfer to the practical experience requirements
- Strategy challenge - the internet
- 27 Feb 2007
- Examiner for Paper 3.5 Ralph Bedrock reviews the implications of the internet on today's strategy makers and considers the impact of the internet on small businesses
- Putting theory into practice
- 01 Feb 2007
- student accountant focuses on how the practical experience requirements are closely linked to the exams and the Professional Ethics module in the new ACCA Qualification
- Examiner's approach to Paper P3
- 26 Jan 2007
- Examiner's approach to Paper P3
- Testing, testing, one, two, three
- 22 Dec 2006
- ACCA qualifications development manager Gareth Owen explains how the design of the new ACCA Qualification can help students to learn more effectively
- Defining managers' information requirements
- 01 Aug 2006
- Jim Stone describes how critical success factors are used
- Ethically speaking
- 01 Jun 2006
- ACCA demonstrates its commitment to ensuring that ethics and professional values are assessed through its unique three-pronged approach
- Business strategy and performance models
- 01 Apr 2006
- Shane Johnson provides a brief overview of three models to assist accountants in the determination of business strategy and in the appraisal of business performance
- Performance measures to support competitive advantage
- 01 Aug 2005
- Graham Morgan looks at the success of airlines such as easyJet and Ryanair and examines how the balanced scorecard might be utilised to maintain the low-cost carriers' competitive edge
- E-commerce
- 01 May 2005
- Jim Stone looks at business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce and benefits for business as well as the social and employment costs involved
- Big brother
- 01 Aug 2004
- George Bakehouse studies ethics and how advances in information technology have changed the way businesses work
- Organisations - technological developments and communications
- 02 Apr 2004
- Bob Souster examines the effects of technological change on communications in the workplace
- Rewards and appraisal
- 02 Sep 2001
- John Ball describes rewards and appraisals
- Effective report writing
- 01 Aug 2000
- Mustafa Muchhala explains the key points of effective report writing
- All hands on deck! Harnessing the force behind empowerment
- 01 Jun 2000
- by Ian Herbert