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SUCCESSION issues are a significant and growing challenge for companies and could be an opportunity for qualified accountants who may step up internally or be drafted in to even become the next CEO or CFO.

“Many businesses spend very little time, if any, thinking through who will lead the various aspects of their business in the future,” said Karen Young, a director for the senior finance section of global recruitment experts Hays, and whose remit includes qualified accountancy jobs including finance director, financial controller, management accountant, financial accountant, or practice accounting.…

A REGIONAL airport on Vancouver Island, British Colombia, has received Canadian dollars CAD1.3 million (USD1.26 million) in Canadian federal government funding to make lighting safety improvements. The money will fund new apron and taxiway lighting plus runway edge lighting circuits at Campbell River Airport.…

A golden age of mobile communications is dawning, with consumers worldwide spending more money on hand-held comms devices than ever before. But service providers beware. They must be smart to capture new revenue streams from apps, audiovisual delivery, social media and data services, lest these new riches are diverted into the hands of content owners and OTT service providers.…

CHINA is poised to promote the collection and utilisation of fly ash generated from coal power plants.

The government urban mining plan, which comes into effect on March 1, overhauls an existing fly ash management strategy that has been in place for almost a decade, said a communiqué from the powerful National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).…

THE INTERNATIONAL mining community may have to negotiate harder and pay more to secure mining concessions in mineral-rich Greenland after the opposition won the autonomous territory’s general election on Tuesday.

The left-leaning Siumut party is now expected to head a new ruling coalition in partnership with the centre-right Atassut and green-tinged Partii Inuit.…

WHILE Alaska’s mining industry has seen impressive growth in output through 2012, with high commodity prices for gold and silver in particular boosting exploration and production, experts predict a relatively flat performance in 2013.

At the lowermost rung of the value ladder is coal, a sector adversely impacted by both slack global demand and increasing competition from alternative fuel sources.…

IT is every telecoms customer’s bad dream. Something has gone wrong with a phone or an app; a bill has an unexpected and thoroughly irritating additional charge. A call to the customer care centre is made – and replying (after a long wait) is an ill-educated, dense company representative, whose only goal – it seems – is to get you off the line.…

ARE people working in industries targeted by organised crime – such as financial services and shipping, more likely to engage in criminal activity than others – and if so, why? Are criminals attracted to certain vulnerable structures in those industries or are some industries more likely to attract dishonest employees than others?…

FOR critics who claim financial reporting is boring – accounting professionals should point to Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page. He has created a unit with a limited staff and budget, taking on a government with a taste for secrecy, and still released reports revealing cost assessments that have made headlines.…

COUNTERFEIT cash can be a most useful tool for money launderers. When made properly, high value notes can be moved around the world and spent without recourse to banks, credit card operators and other financial institutions.  And with the increasing sophistication digital counterfeiting technology, this criminal industry is today a truly global enterprise: high quality banknotes can be faked almost anywhere in the world.…