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The Better Payment Practice Group (BPPG) has devised a 12-step collection process for small to medium-sized enterprises to avoid late payment. The guidance is a response to a study of more than 1,000 firms by the Credit Management Research Centre. It found that less than half of invoices for businesses in manufacturing, wholesale and financial services are paid on time.
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Avoiding discrimination
Can you tell me whether it is a good idea to ask on our agency application forms whether potential workers are disabled or not? I have done so in the past, but I have been informed that it could prove to be discriminative?
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Stand up and be counted_3
It is the duty of an accountant to expose corruption. The profession must make a stand and confront the issue
Court deal is PFI first_3


A consortium led by support services company Amey will build and run court facilities in south-west England in the next 25 years in a groundbreaking private finance initiative (PFI) deal. This is the first PFI deal to involve more than one department, including the Lord Chancellor’s Department. The £32 million deal includes court facilities in Bristol and Worle.
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Coping with devaluation_3
Q: How can you best manage contracts in an environment where devaluation has occurred and foreign currency is in short supply? At the moment, this is causing big problems for my company in Zimbabwe. Some suppliers are asking for frequent price increases,
‘Biggest’ UK green deal_3


Scotland’s largest public sector procurement agency, the Authorities Buying Consortium, is to buy 112GW hours of renewable energy from ScottishPower. It claims that the two-year deal is the single biggest purchase of green energy in the UK.
Siemens contract signed_3


German supplier Siemens is to supply 785 rail carriages for South West Trains in a massive £1 billion contract with Stagecoach. Siemens will build the units in Düsseldorf and Vienna. Most of the carriages will replace SWT’s “slam-door” units, while 200 of them will be used on new Waterloo-Windsor and Woking-Basingstoke services.
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