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		<title>Capital quandary</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/20/capital-quandary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aksaroya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Access to finance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manos Schizas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[financing smes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Manos Schizas, economic analyst at ACCA Only a fraction of the world&#8217;s SMEs are funded by public equity. ACCA considers whether the world&#8217;s capital markets can do more for small issuers. Xavier Rolet, CEO of the London Stock Exchange Group, has been making the rounds recently, drumming up support for Europe&#8217;s SMEs as the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=979&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Off the hook</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/17/off-the-hook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 10:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aksaroya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit rating; AAA status; sovereign downgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Williams, accountant and journalist, explores the contrast between the impassioned scapegoating of the ratings agencies during the onset of the financial crisis with the meek acceptance of the recent UK sovereign downgrade. Credit-rating agencies have proven remarkably capable of withstanding the opprobrium of politicians. At the start of the financial crisis, politicians pilloried the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=923&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why balanced finance capability matters in finance today</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/15/why-balanced-finance-capability-matters-in-finance-today/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/15/why-balanced-finance-capability-matters-in-finance-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>accapr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Lyon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chief financial officer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[complete finance professional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance function]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jamie Lyon, head of corporate sector, ACCA Reading a lot of the commentary on finance and the role of today’s CFO you’d be forgiven for thinking that today’s finance function spends all of its time on strategy formulation and execution. I don’t doubt for one second how important the role of finance as a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=968&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The future is integrated</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/13/the-future-is-integrated/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/13/the-future-is-integrated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aksaroya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IIRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[integrated reporting; financial reporting; ACCA Ireland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Liz Hughes, head of ACCA Ireland, on the value of a new approach to financial reporting The term &#8220;integrated reporting&#8221; may not yet be a part of your current accountancy vocabulary but the likelihood is that it will become a standard feature of reporting practices in the near future. Its move to prominence is being [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=938&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All change at the top</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/10/all-change-at-the-top/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/10/all-change-at-the-top/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 09:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aksaroya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CFO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TATA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a new CFO takes the helm at TCS, Cesar Bacani, editor-in-chief of CFO Innovation Asia, looks back at how the finance function has transformed and considers the wisdom that outgoing chiefs can pass on to younger colleagues. Before I interviewed S Mahalingam, until recently the CFO of global IT services and business process outsourcing giant Tata [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=944&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When persuasion is not enough</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/08/when-persuasion-is-not-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/08/when-persuasion-is-not-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 11:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aksaroya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women in Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[board quotas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity; women on boards]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The contentious issue of how to ensure enough women are appointed to boards of companies is dividing opinion, with some insisting that mandatory quotas are the only way to effect real change, says Errol Oh It has been almost two years since the Malaysian Government set the target of having at least 30 per cent [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=948&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Through a glass darkly</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/01/through-a-glass-darkly/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/05/01/through-a-glass-darkly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 11:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aksaroya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis; credit ratings; SEC]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The weaknesses of the credit ratings system are only too clear, but finding a way to address the conflict of interest issues without generating new problems is anything but straightforward, says Ramona Dzinkowski, economist and business journalist Since the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has had a multitude of objectives [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=935&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 years of ACCA in the Czech Republic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/04/29/10-years-of-acca-in-the-czech-republic/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/04/29/10-years-of-acca-in-the-czech-republic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>accapr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ACCA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Offices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Value]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[10th anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony Harbinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czech Republic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hungary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katka Benesova]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prague]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slovakia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=955</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Katka Benešová, head of ACCA Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary This year marks the ACCA office in Prague changing the way professional accountants develop careers in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary for 10 years. Earlier this month ACCA’s vice president, Anthony Harbinson, hosted a gala dinner in Prague to mark this great anniversary. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=955&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A shareholder spring on audit?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/04/26/a-shareholder-spring-on-audit/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/04/26/a-shareholder-spring-on-audit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aksaroya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Audit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shareholders; AGM]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bringing down the barriers to shareholders subjecting company management to frank and public questioning at the annual general meeting will take more than a beefed up auditor’s report, says Jane Fuller, former financial editor of the Financial Times and co-director of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation think-tank ‘The first resolution of this AGM [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=928&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China makes the case</title>
		<link>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/04/24/china-makes-the-case/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.accaglobal.com/2013/04/24/china-makes-the-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>aksaroya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barry Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFRS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.accaglobal.com/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[China’s experience of IFRS convergence makes a convincing case for other economies, says ACCA president Barry Cooper Given China’s increasing influence in the world, not only as producer but as major consumer, there’s growing interest in how to do business there. I’ve worked in China on and off for over 25 years and have been [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.accaglobal.com&#038;blog=38577821&#038;post=933&#038;subd=theaccablog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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