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Welcome to Insider Business Club, the web conference club for finance directors and senior members of their teams. Each week the live online event tackles pressing business issues with in-depth analysis and exclusive comment from influential players in the financial world. For more details visit [ About ]

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Every listener of the live event that submits a question or takes part in an online poll will be entered into a weekly champagne draw. The draw is made after the live event and the winner announced at the following event.

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Next on Insider Business Club (21 May 2008 - 11:00 am)
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Shaping your business for growth

Smart companies and finance directors are using the downturn to position their companies for future business growth. But how can you best balance short-term delivery with future change – especially when faced with demanding customers inside and outside the organization? This session will draw on a recent IBM survey of more than 1,000 chief executives from around the world about their future pla... [read more]
 
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Damian Wild ( Host )
Group Editor in Chief
Accountancy Age and Financial Director
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Richard Gleed
Associate Partner
IBM
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Chris Edwards
Professor
Cranfield School of Management
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14 May 2008 Listen Now Podcast
Solving the Pensions Crisis

The global credit crisis and the advent of fair value accounting have combined to thrust pension matters back into the in-trays of most finance directors. All this, coupled with regulatory change, has put a strain on relations between the trustees of final salary pension schemes and the sponsoring employers of these schemes. Of course, the interests of pension fund sponsors and trustees have often... [read more]

Damian Wild (Host) - Group Editor in Chief , Accountancy Age and Financial Director
Gregory E. Rodgers - Managing Director, European Institutional Business Development, SEI
Vernon Holdgate - Director, Professional Trustee, Capital Cranfield
Sheila Fazal - Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Mike Samuel - Former FD and Trustee, Rank Group/Unilever Pension Funds
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30 April 2008 Listen Now Podcast
Maximising Customer Profitability

As tough trading conditions force businesses to focus more and more on margins, the need to understand customer profitability is paramount. But too many companies do not know which channels and customers are their most profitable - either through a lack of information or by failing to use the information available to them properly. In this session our experts look at how businesses can improve mar... [read more]

Damian Wild (Host) - Group Editor in Chief , Accountancy Age and Financial Director
Richard Barrett - Director Product Marketing Financial Performance Management, Business Objects
Mark Hixon - Managing Director, Consulting Associates Worldwide
Peter Simons - Technical Specialist, CIMA
21 May 2008
Shaping your business for growth [more details]
  
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