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August 2008

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CSR: No kidding

Never mind the formulaic corporate social responsibility annual statement. Taking it seriously can do wonders for PR and staff morale, writes Richard Goslan – not to mention the environment and the community

Making a difference environmentally

Property management companies might not be typical candidates when it comes to promoting corporate social responsibility activities, compared with multi-nationals talking up their beneficial schemes around the world

The big reveal

How much companies say in their corporate social responsibility reports is entirely up to them, but as pressure rises to make them worthwhile, one suggestion is that accountants should vet them

Private crunch?

Research by the accountancy giant Deloitte shows the very rich may not be getting the service they want from high-end financial managers

Weathering the storm

One thing they agree on is that it depends on the investor's risk attitude, but a range of big players in the investment advice field offer diverse advice on the best ways to manage a portfolio in the face of the financial squalls or, as one of our panel notes, what the Chinese proverb would call 'interesting times'

Blow the economic myths

Alan Steel takes a tilt at the financial doomsayers who wield unhelpful statistics and regurgitate unsubstantiated gloom to spread misery via media that relish a bad news story

Moving away

The non-doms who face the £30,000 fee to avoid UK tax on overseas income have not rushed for the departure lounges, but Andrew Beach finds many experts fear it could drastically reduce London's - and the UK's - attractiveness in future

The spinning wheel

If investment is a gamble, advisers can make the outcome more predictable and less risky by careful balancing of asset classes

A-day advantage

It has been all change in the field of self-invested personal pensions since the big shake up in 2006. Jack McVitie looks at some of the opportunities and how to make the most of them

Spread the benefits

Wall Street, or any other type of investment, is fundamentally a gamble, and financial spread betting makes that explicit. But Anthony Harrington finds that it can have a legitimate place in an investment strategy

Interview: Sandy Manson

From his North of Scotland roots, Sandy Manson has built Johnston Carmichael, where he is chief executive, up to be Scotland's top independent accountancy firm

Watching them, watching you

The power of Internet search engines can be used by intruders to hack into company data. Alan Woodward offers a warning and suggests solutions to the problem

Big money games

Will the huge sums being spent on the 2012 Olympics – and the smaller quantities to be paid for the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games – all go to big business?

Question time

Mark Lloydbottom asks whether your firm's time is well spent in terms of client service - in meetings or on run-of-the-mill work in the office

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