Why businesses and banks need more women in executive roles
By Alper Kara, Professor and Head of Department – Accounting, Finance and Economics, University of Huddersfield Only nine in the UK’s top…
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Why the City isn’t fair and diversity doesn’t work
By Dr Louise Ashley, below, Associate Professor, Queen Mary’s business school Today saw the inaugural report from the City of London…
How financial directors can reduce business energy costs
By Richard Fletcher, below, director at IES Whilst the government has announced a £25bn support package for UK businesses to…
Why higher interest rates are a reason to be cheerful
By Rob Murphy, below, Managing Director, Edison Group Given what’s going on in the economy – and the capital markets –…
Why the latest Corporation Tax U-turn means more uncertainty for UK business
By Gavin Midgley, Senior Teaching Fellow in Accounting, University of Surrey Before the new UK chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, rolled back almost all of September’s…
Why inflation is unlikely to get back below 2% for many years
By Alexander Tziamalis and Yuan Wang, senior lecturers in economics at Sheffield Hallam University Inflation in the UK and eurozone is…
Is a major recession unavoidable? Three economists give their views
We are in a double bind right now. Prices are going through the roof but all the signs…
What the Great Resignation really says about leadership
By Brian Hartzer Nearly 25 per cent of UK employees are planning to change jobs in the next few months, according…
Crowdfunding emerges as post-Covid option
Small businesses are turning to crowdfunding to fuel growth out of the pandemic, according to new research. It suggests that a…
Accountants top the bill for banking advice
Small businesses are more likely to ask their accountants or financial advisers for advice on business banking needs than the banks…