The paper argues that increasing litigation and expanding claims on both sides of the Atlantic are threatening the survival of even the largest accounting practices. In the UK, firms are so concerned that they are making reform of the liability system the price of accepting wider responsibility...

The paper argues that the role of the finance director — hitherto confined primarily to ensuring that controls are complied with and that ‘the numbers’ add up — is going through a period of unprecedented change. As the job description is broadened to include such matters as fashioning...

Bruce Lloyd in discussion with Roger Trapp, author of Blunder Boss: How Britain’s Bosses are Failing You. In his book the author argues that there is too often a serious mismatch between what executives say and what they do. This is particularly relevant when those at the top maintain...