For accountants, qualifications are a matter of taste September 22, 2010 WHEN they get their first job, many accountants worry that they will be pigeon-holed by their qualification. ACA is seen as the City gold standard in some quarters, and those who aren’t offered it might worry that their ambition of becoming a FTSE 100 CEO will be thwarted. On the other hand, ACCA is a [...]
THESE THINGS I KNOW | TIPS FOR GETTING ON IN THE CITY September 22, 2010 HEAD OF PRESS & PUBLIC RELATIONS AT CHARLES STANLEY 1. Never, ever turn off your Blackberry either on holiday or at weekends. You do not get a day off in PR and if you turn it off you can guarantee a tsunami. 2. Always be friendly with journalists no matter where they work or what [...]
Drug wars in the swamps of Brazil September 22, 2010 COBRA BY FREDERICK FORSYTH Bantam Press, £18.99 by Zoe Strimpel Classic best-selling thriller writer Forsyth – of the highly acclaimed period pot-boiler The Day of the Jackal – is back. This time his hero’s enemy isn’t a person or group of people, it’s the entire world cocaine trade. The US President has decided to destroy [...]
LIFE COACH September 22, 2010 My inbox feels totally out of control and with it, my sense of professional and personal control has gone out the window. How do I get it back? Bob, 31, green energies broker INBOX overload is one of the major banes of modern corporate life. It may be over 15 years since email became a [...]
OUT OF OFFICE September 22, 2010 SONDHEIM AT THE DONMAR Stephen Sondheim, the man who wrote Send in the Clowns and the creative force behind musicals including A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd and – as lyricist – West Side Story, is 80 this year. Passion, one of his more recent works, is a tale of love, obsession and power set [...]
Why go out for dinner when dinner could come to you? September 22, 2010 WHAT’S a hungry banker with a bonus burning in his back pocket to do? Ostentatious displays of wealth just aren’t the done thing anymore, unless you want to risk attracting the attention of marauding bands of bitter taxpayers. But just because a ten course blow-out at your favourite high-end restaurant might be off the menu [...]
TIM BADHAM GOING OUT September 22, 2010 ENTERTAINING clients shouldn’t be rocket science. Some good food and plenty of drink should do. However, if you want to really impress and stand out from the competition, you’ll want to go the extra mile. You can’t go wrong with the very top restaurants such as Zuma and Marcus Wareing. Throw in a chef’s table [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS September 22, 2010 LP FIZZ DINNER AT THE LANESBOROUGH Champagne lovers with a bit of cash to put behind their passion should not miss out on this dinner at the super-swanky grand hotel. An eight-course menu designed by the in-house triple Michelin-starred chef Heinz Beck will be matched with Laurent Perrier fizz. The classic zero dosage Ultra Brut [...]
Cable wages war on British boardrooms September 21, 2010 VINCE Cable will today launch a scathing attack on British business, announcing a wide-ranging investigation into company takeovers, executive pay and corporate governance. The business secretary will use a keynote speech at the Liberal Democrat conference to wage war on large companies, promising to “shine a harsh light into the murky world of corporate behaviour”. [...]
Europe facing pensions crisis September 21, 2010 EUROPE faces a pensions time bomb with the estimated gap between what people are saving for retirement and what they will actually need to live comfortably when they retire estimated at €1.9 trillion (£1.6 trillion), a report claims today. Europe’s annual “pensions gap” is equivalent to 19 per cent of the European Union’s (EU) GDP [...]
