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Legal Eye: Europe's copyright controversy
Comment What manufacturers are most concerned about is that charges to compensate copyright owners could cost the technology industry as much as €1.5bn per year, with mobile phone levies alone accounting for €500m annually. [18 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Robin Dargue, Group CIO, Royal Mail
Comment Then, with his other hat he is also CIO for Royal Mail Letters - the biggest company in the group, accounting for around £7bn of Royal Mail's overall £9bn revenue. Robin Dargue has long been known as something of a high-flyer in CIO circles - and... [11 Jun 2008]
The McCue Interview: Ailsa Beaton, CIO, Metropolitan Police Service
Comment GE offered me the chance to move to them and I did find the IT aspects of my job more interesting than the accounting aspects of my job, which is how I got into it," she says. Part of her role - in addition to the fairly standard set of CIO... [02 Jun 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Print issues in black and white
Comment On top of all this, few organisations have document accounting systems that accurately measure the true usage for printing and imaging. Who controls printing and imaging? Responsibility is often scattered - so control and costs go out the window. [22 Apr 2008]
The Naked CIO: Boardroom stereotypes
Comment My real reaction to the CFO is cynical - after all, the stereotypes of my role and department derive from the exceptional mismanagement of our accounting colleagues back in the days when they had oversight of the IT function. [07 Apr 2008]
Profile: Nottingham Building Society head of IT Jack Cutts
Comment Possibly one of the legendary accounting pirates from Monty Python's Crimson Permanent Assurance short film. Jack Cutts is a name to conjure with. Reminiscent of a buccaneer perhaps? Like the finance privateers in the film, Jack Cutts, head of IT... [11 Mar 2008]
From CIO to consultant: One year on
Comment That sounds great from a financial perspective but leaves no time for developing the business, being able to carry out any research or even to do the boring background work like invoicing and accounting. [14 Jan 2008]
Locking down financial security
Comment In 2006, internet fraud reached £154.4m, accounting for 73 per cent of card-not-present fraud. But losses from online fraud continue to rise. Danny Bradbury combs through the books. Finance is one of the most heavily regulated industries, so... [24 Dec 2007]
Bigger is not always better
Comment Regulations such as Single Euro Payments Area (Sepa), Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), Basel II and International Accounting Standards (IAS) are all enforcing the lawmakers' desire to increase banking accountability. [02 Oct 2007]
The tech requirements of private equity funds
Comment Excel can be used to supplement an accounting system but accounting functions within funds require capabilities to perform other tasks such as tracking each fund's investment performance and allocations of costs, revenues and capital to partners... [20 Aug 2007]
Leader: Google walks the enterprise walk
Leader Look towards any or all of the following: accounting, business intelligence, CRM, database management, ERP, storage and back-up services. Google, not content with owning the search market or with its grander plans for the consumer space, has... [10 Jul 2007]
From CIO to consultant: What I've learned so far
Comment Use a proper accounting package such as Quickbooks to make sure you are tracking your expenses properly. For the first time since I started out on my own, I've been so busy over the past month that I've barely had time to write this column. [05 Jul 2007]
Leader: Why green is good for your career
Leader Research from analyst house Gartner has found the world's IT industry churns out as much carbon dioxide as the aviation industry - with technology accounting for two per cent of the world's CO2 emissions. [30 Apr 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment Many small and medium enterprises have individual systems to address a particular business need such as an accounting package for finance or a customer database for marketing. Sharing data across an organisation is no easy task. [14 Mar 2007]
Leader: Unjust extradition laws must be amended
Leader UK executives are now increasingly finding themselves caught up in the US crackdown on accounting scandals and corporate fraud, as highlighted by the recent cases of the NatWest Three and Jeremy Crook, the former European boss of US software... [22 Nov 2006]
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