Accounting & Financial reporting

Canadian alternative equities trading venue Omega ATS has moved onto a newer, faster matching engine, which is the software that matches buy and sell orders in a given stock and thus is the core of any exchange or venue. This indicates that competition in Canada is still growing and demand ... read more..

(Article taken from Management Guidelines 330 Budgeting in a Recovering Economy) It will have escaped nobodys notice that this has been a tough year. Consequently, anyone who is in the process of or about to start the forthcoming years budget planning round may be considering the prospect with some trepidation. ... read more..

There is no precise legal definition of fraud, the term is used to describe a multitude of offences, including deception, forgery, theft, misappropriation, collusion and false representation of material facts. Given this wide potential then for wrong-doing it is perhaps surprising that fraud is not featured in the National Policing ... read more..

A DIRECTORS GUIDE: MAKING THE BUSINESS CASE FOR SOFTWARE CHANGE Access Group, 2009. Recognising when your system is no longer fit for purpose Is your current software holding your company back? If you recognise any of the issues below, then your organisation has probably reached or even surpassed the limits of your current ... read more..

Press Release from The National Computing Centre, Manchester UK. Issued 11th June 2009 Nearly a third of organisations feel that their financial systems have failed to meet all their original business objectives. This is according to new research commissioned by the Evaluation Centre (www.evaluationcentre.com), an interactive online service guiding IT buyers in ... read more..

A good way to avoid being the victim of a scam is to understand typical methods that conmen use in IT-related scams. Social engineering is when a conman gets you or your employees to reveal information that can be used for more serious attempts to defraud you. For example, a conman could ... read more..