Opinion
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How CBR is destroying businesses
Nowadays, CBR is moving in the right direction of improving its image before the taxpayers. Member Human Resource (HRM) of…
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Getting Numbers to Tell the Story
In today’s high-pressure business environment, how you deliver your message is as important as the message itself. Financial professionals are…
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Push-Button Spreadsheets
Your client owns an auto dealership—we’ll call it Cars R Us—and wants to automate some routine business tasks the sales…
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ABM can work for your company
Activity based management (ABM) is now seen as an integral part of the decision-making framework and more and more enterprises…
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Forensic Accountants: Specialists in Demand
Forensic accounting has gained renewed attention due to recent accounting scandals, but it has always been a part of the…
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Outsourcing Supply Chain Management – 8 Issues
Outsourcing is done for various reasons. The driver can be generating cost reductions and downsizing; this has been a traditional…
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Technology to Fool Auditors: From Colored Pens to Computer Scanners
Let us pause to consider changes in the technology of fooling auditors with fraudulent documents. Back in the 1960's the…
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Time Management or Self-management?
Many of the students taking up the examination of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) are found complaining…
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Mind Your Payroll Controls
Companies change their payroll processing function with great regularity. A newly founded organization starts with manual payroll processing to handle…
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Standard costs – an effective tool for business?
Standard costing and variance analysis has been in use since the early twentieth century. In recent years the role of…