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Teck Cominco will build toward (becoming a prominent global mining player) on its own," [Doug Horswill] said. "It will just be slower than if we'd won Inco. Horswill said that while Falconbridge seemed interested in Teck's overture, Inco's response was to engineer a "support agreement" with Falconbridge that called for Inco and Falconbridge to merge, despite Xstrata's interest in acquiring the latter firm. "We're interested in that. Everybody knows that from the (Inco) opportunity that hasn't worked for us," Horswill said. "([Don Lindsay]) has also said uranium is attractive because it's very positive into the future (in) energy markets. He's talked about iron ore because it's compatible with our coal business.
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Changes in auditing techniques that have taken place in Britain since the Victorian era, an area of study hitherto neglected by accounting historians, are discussed and detailed. In so doing, it is hoped that an increasing knowledge of past practices will put the current processes into context. The source material for the paper includes new evidence from a program of oral history and postal questionnaires, together with more traditional sources such as the trade journals and textbooks. The so-called bookkeeping audit of vouching and checking postings and castings, and with the auditor also doing a fair proportion of the client's accounting, was typical down to the 1960s. Major changes then took place, including a decline in accounting work, an increased focus on the balance sheet, and a...
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...This raises the challenge of how to balance the benefits of a CCP in terms of enhanced financi... against too much leverage on their balance sheet by declining to take on more repo transactions, wh...
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What's to be done? The Business Council of Manitoba has advised [Greg Selinger] to keep four basic principles in mind as he fine-tunes his budget to be delivered Wednesday. First of all, government has a responsibility to cushion the blow for Manitobans who lose their jobs in this recession. Offering a wider range of retraining programs for the unemployed and lobbying Ottawa to enhance Employment Insurance benefits are two strategies. Secondly, the temptation to react precipitously will lead to recurring deficits, weakening Manitoba's balance sheet. Investments in infrastructure projects are warranted and the new balanced budget law gives the government some latitude to spend strategically. So does the $818 million (as of March 31, 2008) sitting in the Fiscal Stabilization Fund, more th...
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A study examines a sample of 13 accounts from the bursar's office at Durham Cathedral Priory covering the period 1278-1398. Sources of receipts, types of expenditure, and the format of the accounts have been described. An analysis of the accounts has allowed the calculation of the net surplus or deficit generated each year. This has revealed that once uncollected arrears have been excluded from receipts, the net surplus or deficit was of a very modest amount, and it appears that actual receipts and expenditure were very closely matched, indicating careful monitoring of the cash position. The accounts are largely concerned with receipts and expenditure, but an awareness of balance sheet issues is evidenced by the survival of schedules listing debtors and creditors. These and other schedu...
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When asked what he would like as a birthday present for the organization he runs, Michael Griffin answers: "An understanding that not everything that is worthwhile can be justified in terms of immediate dollars and cents on the balance sheet." It is an artful reply. But NASA, America's space agency, did not survive to be 50 years old without being artful. The result is a tension between the "manned" and "unmanned" sides of the organization. There are those in each camp who see little value in the work of the other. In particular, many of the scientists reckon that a lot more useful stuff could be done in space if the manned budget were spent on robot probes. In a lecture at the beginning of this year, for instance, Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, exhorted NASA to engage more wit...
