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<title><![CDATA[ AccountingWEB.co.uk Business News ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Created for finance managers, this channel offers appropriate news and features, as well as appropriate resources, a special Money Laundering Zone, newswires, and links to relevant sections of the peer-to-peer forum. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/business</link>

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<title><![CDATA[ CEO's Diary: Coincidence?  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The CEO is worried  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/186938/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>29-08-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ SME nominees take on the giants in Software Satisfaction Awards 2008  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Specialist small business developers have been nominated alongside some of the IT industry's giants in the Software Satisfaction Awards 2008. Technology editor John Stokdyk reports.        ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/187816/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>28-08-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ London 2012: A golden opportunity for small businesses? ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ With the Beijing Olympics over, the world's attention now turns to London. If Team GB repeats the success achieved in China, more sporting glory is guaranteed but what about small business owners looking to benefit from the Games? Dan Martin examines how SMEs can ensure they end up on the winners' podium rather than out of the medals in 2012.            ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/187715/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>27-08-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ New amendments to the Pensions Bill 2007/2008 ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Over the last few months, the Pensions Bill 2007/08 has been working its way through parliament. This is the Bill that will put the flesh on the personal accounts regime (expected to come into force in 2012), as well as making a number of miscellaneous c...   ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/187734/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>26-08-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ eBay courts entrepreneurs with fee cuts ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Online auction website eBay is to reduce its charges in a bid to attract more entrepreneurs to use the service.          ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/187596/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>20-08-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Money Laundering Regulations 2007 - how to deal with compliance backlogs ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Six months after the new law was introduced some of the UK's largest firms are still failing to comply and are running the risk of incurring large fines and even prosecution. Malcolm Parker from D&B explains how firms can eliminate their compliance backl...     ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/187288/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>13-08-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Vehicle fleets, managing risk and expense ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimates that up to a third of all road traffic accidents involve somebody who was working at the time. Because these workers are out of the office, quite often in their own vehicle rather than one owned by the comp...    ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/187002/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>5-08-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ CEO's Diary: Extreme tedium ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Due diligence is boring   ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/185613/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>29-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ From the coalface: Selling without a sales team ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ In the first in a new series of articles focusing on real challenges faced by real entrepreneurs, small business expert Edward Bodiam explains the solution he offered to a client looking to boost sales without taking on a sales team.         ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/186264/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>23-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Jane Asher: Starting a business in a recession ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ With talk of a downturn, these are testing times even for the most successful businesses. Actress and entrepreneur Jane Asher survived the last recession and tells Verity Gough how to make a drama out of a crisis. This article also includes a video interview.       ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/186038/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>16-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Analysing and cutting travel expense costs ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Analysing and cutting travel expense costs<P>Expenses expert David Vine examines the cost of travel expenses to British businesses and offers a few tips on cutting costs and the necessity of being pragmatic.  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/186234/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>15-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Small companies on brink of tax revolt  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Small business owners are so unhappy with the tax system that many are close to refusing to comply with their legal obligations, a lobby organisation has claimed.            ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/186101/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>11-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Clarity not complexity. By Richard Mallett  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ CIMA's Richard Mallett wonders if the current mortgage-backed securities crisis show that more work needs to be done in company accounts from a point of view of clarity, enhancing the financial reporting supply chain and corporate governance.    ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/185921/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>9-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ UK 'months away from recession' ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The UK is in imminent danger of plunging into recession, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has claimed.        ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/185947/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>8-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Unlocking value in real estate. By Stephen Clarke.  ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Unlocking value in real estate. By Stephen Clarke. <P>Companies should be looking at unlocking value held in their property portfolios and cutting overheads. Stephen Clarke of global real estate adviser, DTZ, explains why and how a firm can shift their property liabilities.      ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/185649/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>2-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Pitch: Katcha Bilek, re-Collect ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ <img src="/photolib/editorial/people/437.jpg" alt="Katcha Bilek, re-Collect" />re-Collect, run by entrepreneur Katcha Bilek, produces fashion accessories out of recycled materials. Using everyday items such as old car tyres, Bilek has developed a unique ...                  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/185567/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>1-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ The Pitch: Douglas Campbell, Project Hold Me ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Seven entrepreneurs recently presented their business to a panel of experts in The Pitch, BusinessZone.co.uk's new competition. Watch how they got on and who came out victorious in these exclusive videos which offer valuable lessons on how to pitch to investors.                  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/185563/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>1-07-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ CEO's Diary: Waiting for fireworks ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ The offer to the ex-Mrs CEO is almost ready to go   ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/184289/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>30-06-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ When fraud strikes ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ <img src="http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/photolib/editorial/people120x120/226.jpg"                     style="margin-right:5px; border:1px solid #ccc" alt="Photo of Andrew Durant" align="left" /><i>On discovering fraud, emotions have a habit of taking ove...  ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/185327/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>25-06-2008</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[ Ex-Dragon demands boycott of former Den colleague ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[ Entrepreneur Rachel Elnaugh has called on women to boycott the businesses run by her former Dragons' Den colleague Theo Paphitis after he said females' brains "turn to mush" during pregnancy.           ]]></description>
<link>http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/185179/1025/1020/1026</link>
<pubDate>20-06-2008</pubDate>
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