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Accountancy news - August 2011: Accounting & Business

News – UK

Companies optimistic on pension inflation [lead]

FTSE350 companies use widely differing inflation assumptions in their pensions accounting, with 65% assuming inflation will be less than that implied by the financial markets, according to pension consultants Hymans Robertson in its annual FTSE 350 Accounting Assumptions Survey. The average variation from market assumptions is [...]

Public sector cuts hit private sector: CFO World

Government spending cuts will lose contractors annual income of about £46bn, according to analysis just published by PwC.  Around half a million private sector jobs will go.
 
Manufacturing, transport, hospitality and financial services will all feel pain, but the major losers are construction and, especially, business services, including legal advice, consultancy, catering and cleaning.
 
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The role of the co-operative movement in building a sustainable future: Greening the Earth

Discussion paper
For PDF version, please email paulgosling@phonecoop.coop 
The role of the co-operative movement in building a sustainable future
 
Introduction
 
The world is in crisis – in fact a simultaneous crisis on three fronts. The financial system is in turmoil – the so-called ‘credit crunch’. Food prices have accelerated to the point where basic food stuffs are unaffordable in [...]