Essays

If you have made it this far and have been made more curious by my Insights, you might find these articles interesting. They are a bit more wordy than the Insights and have developed my thought processes a bit further. They are straight out of my head with no mathematical formulas, very few diagrams and no 2X2 matrices so beloved of Academics.

Some have been accepted into publication, some have not, some still require work on them and will evolve as my experiences change.

I have tried to keep the words as simple as possible and the target audience is anyone who is in business, some articles have a more accountancy slant than others, some artilces are just a plain stream of consciousness.

It is probably also customary to thank people who have helped me in some way as this is beginning to sound like a foreword to a book.

What I can say is this: a lot of people have come in and gone out of my life - some good, some not so good. I have been criticised for bad behaviour and (ocassionally) praised for good things I have done. Whatever has happened and whoever I have met have shaped my thoughts.

Whilst I have this motivation and energy to write, then I will do so.

To all those people I have met, thank you for the experience, the words that I am writing are soley my own based on those experiences.

So, if you get something out of this then that's a bonus, if you would rather go for a walk then feel free..

Acquiring new businesses

A secular approach to lending

Asset Based Lending

Bank Relationships

Change

Choosing Auditors

Communication

Corporate Social Responsibility

Decision making

Disequilibrium

Employment Policies

Ethics

Forecasting

Groups

How long should it take to produce monthly accounts

How to lie your way into a loan you cannot afford

Improvisation

Interpreting Accounting data

Is the accounts department dead

Losing the Plot2

Maintaining Corporate Values- a Historical perspective

Management Information systems, are these the three most important criteria?

Managing a recession

Managing the credit squeeze

Negotiation

Raising Capital in the small business

Reflections on South Africa

Regulated Capitalism

Regulation

Risk

Small Really is Beautiful

Succession

The option of failure

The Psychological FD

The Shareholder Investment

The simple things you say are all complicated

The SME IT Roadmap

Time and change

Time management

Values

What have the Customers done for us

What makes a good CEO

Why Cranfield is like a Rhino