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Jo Haigh is coming to Dublin this week to give a workshop to Vistage members and guests on ‘Finance for Non-Accountants’. Many CEOs get to the top because of their expertise in their profession, in sales/marketing or operations or whatever. They would not have survived without grasping the financial basics. However, especially in difficult times, they can find their discomfort with finance and what their accountants are presenting to them a source of worry rather than information to act on. Jo provides a crystal clear and no-nonsense guide to banish that discomfort and to enable participants ask the questions that get the revealing answers..... Kyran Fitzgerald interviews Jo Haigh A bestselling author of business books, Ambassador for a middle s
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The Finance Act has received a broad welcome from business. Those who are set to benefit, in particular: - foreign executives assigned to work in the country. - firms involved in leasing and fund management - owners of intellectual property assets. - providers of Islamic finance products. - pensions providors - people selling land under compulsory purchase orders However, there are - as one might expect - no shortages of 'stings in the budgetary tail.' Tax exiles with an Irish domicile will have to pay a 'domicile levy' where their worldwide income exceeds €1m and there income tax liability here is less than €200,000 Of greater practical, as opposed to symbolic, significance is the decision to abolish th
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The Government is banking on an innovation revolution to play a major part in extracting the country from the economic and financial black hole into which it has toppled so unceremoniously. In the last few weeks, two leading State groups, FAS and the Innovation Taskforce, have produced major reports suggesting that further shifts up the technological tree can produce major dividends in the area of job creation. According to the latest FAS Manpower Forecasting Study, the number of employed scientists, engineers, business and IT professionals grew strongly in recent years, with employment in each of these categories at least doubling between 1996 and 2008. This trend is expected to resume as a reco
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MediaSnackers the social media experts took the opportunity to present to Vistage 33 at the Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin. They ran a successful session on social media explaining the benefits of it to the corporate world. See below to see how the day went
These days, trust, credit and cash flow are all in short supply in the corporate world. Smaller enterprises have been affected in particular by the breakdown in financial connections Firms can do themselves a big favour with their suppliers and financiers where they can prove to everyone's satsifaction that their accounts present a full and fair picture of the state of the Company. Writing recently in Finance Dublin, Brendan Sheridan of Deloittes observes that "disclosures should be more detailed than in times of economic growth." He notes that the UK Financial Reporting Review Panel recently reviewed 326 financial statements. It found that "the current stan
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