Why having moral courage is a strength needed of all business professionals November 17, 2021 | City Talk Doing the right thing takes courage and isn’t always easy. We explain why having moral courage is a strength required of all business professionals. In the ICAS research report What do you do now? Ethical issues encountered by Chartered Accountants, Dr David Molyneaux said that ‘courage’ is not usually a term associated with the accountancy [...]
Why every individual has a personal responsibility to act ethically November 8, 2021 | City Talk All individuals must take personal responsibility for the important role they have to play in business and society. Individuals have personal values, guided by various factors throughout their lifetime; but, corporate entities also purport to have values defining the culture of the organisation. An individual’s personal values and behaviour will be influenced by peers and [...]
Creating a world everyone deserves: Construction with a conscience November 3, 2021 | Sponsored Mark Robinson, group chief executive at SCAPE, explains how the procurement authority is helping the UK’s public sector to move to net zero carbon in construction and improve local communities in the process. Our mission at SCAPE is to create a world that everyone deserves – helping to improve spaces and places, accelerate projects that [...]
From CapEx to Carbon Neutral: How lifecycle costing can benefit your builds November 3, 2021 | Sponsored Chris Clarke, director of performance and improvement at leading public sector procurement authority SCAPE, explains how a shift in how we cost built environment projects can help save the planet. We have little under 10 years to start implementing the significant changes needed to reduce carbon consumption so that both we and future generations are [...]
Circular Twin – Unlocking a low-carbon future for public buildings November 3, 2021 | Sponsored With more than 300 councils and local authorities declaring a climate emergency, tackling carbon intensity across the public estate has become mission critical. Support in delivering net zero targets To support the public sector in delivering the government’s net zero targets by 2050, an industry-wide study has provided hard evidence as to how the public [...]
Saving the planet and creating millions of jobs November 3, 2021 | Sponsored When the UK parliament became the first in the world to declare a climate emergency in 2019 it sent a strong message that it was willing to take immediate action on global warming and hoped that others would follow its lead. Since then many other countries have followed suit. In a further push last year, [...]
5 tips on how to prepare for a remote job interview November 3, 2021 Things have changed a lot in the last 2 years as a direct result of the Coronavirus. Millions of people have been working from home, and it seems as though this approach is here to stay (in some form at least). This also has resulted in remote onboarding. Companies have turned to remote job interviews [...]
3 cool roles to apply for in November November 3, 2021 And just like that, we’re in a new month already! Where has the time gone? If you’re looking to make some changes this November, a fun new job might be a great place to start. We have a whole host of brilliant open roles on our job board. District Sales Manager – Enterprise, Palo Alto [...]
Keeping an eye on gender lens investing and women in leadership November 2, 2021 | City Talk Gender lens equity investing developed from a substantive body of research demonstrating the financial, risk management, decision-making and other corporate benefits of higher levels of women in leadership. In our coverage universe at Parallelle Finance, 27 gender lens global and regional equity funds are available to individual investors. Their assets under management (AUM) totalled $3.47 [...]
Waverton boosts Wealth Planning with strategic hire November 2, 2021 Waverton Group is further expanding its Wealth Planning proposition with the hire of Marco Malagoni who joins as Head of Wealth Planning, London, from Cazenove Capital. Waverton has made two acquisitions in recent times to create real momentum behind its integrated Wealth Planning strategy. Earlier this year, Waverton acquired Cornerstone Asset Management and this business [...]