Economy
Desperate times call for desperate measures
The old adage that Christmas seems to come earlier each year was proved true, writes Joe Downes at BusinessWorld.
Today, Friday, September 3, Brown Thomas on Grafton St opens its Christmas store “complete with Santas, reindeer, twinkling lights and un-seasonal music at its Grafton Street store”. Cork and Limerick stores will be heralding the arrival of [...]
Credit watch revisited
The pantomime of whether credit is being made available by banks to small firms continues. On the one hand the banks quote various figures of amounts available and being lent. While firms and their representative associations say the banks are “closed for business”. Oh no we’re not. Oh yes they are…
Vistage would be delighted to [...]
Finance Act, 2010
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 [...]
Accounting change on the way..
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 [...]
Easing of Davos blues..
Many of the elite of international business and politics gather, each year, at the Swiss resort of Davos to feel each others’ pulse.
The World Economic Forum may attract “the great and the good”, but as an event it is less staged than the great organised photocalls of statesmen and women gathered at a G8 or [...]
Welcome to the Vistage Ireland blog
As a Vistage Group Chair operating in Dublin, I am very conscious of the challenges and opportunities facing CEOs today.
The dictionary of disaster words has been exhausted to describe the current economic and financial position of the country in which businesses have to operate.
And yet, every CEO has to get up and lead his or [...]
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