Calling all exceptional managers
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Economic growth rate and lifestyles of the people in the developed countries can be maintained by companies that are innovative and commercially successful and has managers who choose to avoid the route to short-termism enabling the company to generate profits and pay good wages. This requires the exceptional mangers to rise up in revolution and overthrow the investment banks and their financial engineering.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 2006
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Disconcerting authority
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A business journalist describes his encounter with the great economist J.K. Galbraith in front of a doorway of his work place, which was very disconcerting. He discusses Galbraith's work throughout his lengthy career where he used the tools of economics to disconcert.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 2006
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Attention deficit
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The author states that annual financial statements are becoming so complex that most board members do not take the trouble to read them. The trend indicates a growing marginalization of the powers of audit committees in the corporate world.
Publication Name: Accountancy
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0001-4664
Year: 2007
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