Features – Page 20

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    Comment

    2004-09-15T00:00:00Z

    Serious pollution incidents are down on 2002

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    Heeding the wake up call

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Companies must recognise the threat of terrorism and the need to address it, stresses Mark Harris

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    Disclosing The Facts

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    New legislation will encourage UK companies to provide more information for stakeholders But, without compulsion, will anything change?

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    Managing a Disaster

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    You need to be sure that you can manage after a disaster rather than letting the disaster manage you, say Clive Fletcher-Wood and Alyson Tanner

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    The new face of Enterprise Risk

    2004-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Enterprise risk is changing, with personnel-based employee and organisational risks becoming more important Simon Kunzler and Andros Payne provide some guidance on managing them new threats.

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    An Entente not so Cordiale - Eurotunnel

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack looks at events at Eurotunnel and why shareholder activism is increasing generally

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    Managing Information

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Risk managers who want to be at the centre of the information hub would benefit from the new generation of centralised information management systems, says Alain Gray

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    Biodiversity risk for extractive companies

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Robert Barrington discusses a recent report on biodiversity and the risks for the extractive industries

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    Captives and Hard market questions

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    David Hertzell looks at some of the issues that captive owners and managers are now addressing

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    Asbestos Update

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Over 100 years after it was first publicly revealed in a UK parliamentary report to be hazardous to health, asbestos has made an unwelcome return to the top of organisations' risk registers, says Neil

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    Are you being given the whole story?

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    CEOs, finance directors and risk managers are recognising the need to outsource part of the due diligence process prior to corporate transactions, in order to make sure that nothing suspicious is lurk

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    Honouring the Pensions promise

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    The risk from defined benefit pension promises is inextricably linked to the sponsoring company's finances This was always the case but the accounting standard FRS17 has emphasised it in a way that ma

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    Comment - Is it a risk or an opportunity?

    2004-06-10T00:00:00Z

    Is it a risk or an opportunity? That is what many organisations will be asking themselves following the UK government's launch of draft regulations on the Operating and Financial Review (OFR) in May

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    More an art than a science

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Humans are often poor decision-makers What can managers and organisations do about it? ask Dr Tom Woollard and Dr Ed Mitchell.

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    Informed appointments

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Alan Beazley says pre-employment screening can weed out applicants who are not what they seem

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    Sour Milk

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    Lee Coppack looks at Parmalat's problems and at how they might have been detected sooner

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    Feeling the Effects

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    While only eligible UK companies will fall within the Sarbanes-Oxley net, the UK government is considering additional legislation that will apply to all David Saunders writes.

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    The ethical crossroads

    2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

    In some business cultures 'sweeteners' are a fact of life Martin Cunningham looks at the ethical dilemma posed by bribery in an era of corporate social responsibility.

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    Meeting Future Needs

    2004-04-21T00:00:00Z

    What training and qualities do Europe's risk managers need to meet current and future needs? Three European academics give their views

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    CARRYING THE CAN

    2004-03-16T00:00:00Z

    Who should take responsibility when things go wrong - the company or its individual directors? - asks Tan Ikram