February 14, 2020 Hundreds of students set to compete at SIU’s 2020 Accounting Challenge by Christi Mathis CARBONDALE, Ill. — Hundreds of high school and community college students from throughout the region will be competing for scholarships, trophies and the chance to best their peers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s 22nd annual Accounting Challenge on […]
Archives for February 2020
Investment Association appoints Skeoch as new chair
Standard Life Aberdeen chief executive Keith Skeoch has been appointed chair of the Investment Association’s board. Michelle Scrimgeour, chief executive of Legal & General Investment Management and Patrick Thomson, chief executive for EMEA of JP Morgan Asset Management, have been appointed deputy chairs. The three will assume their roles on 1 May. Mr Skeoch replaces […]
Editor’s Comment: Goodbye to a Chancellor…and autonomy?
Well, that was a bit of a week, wasn’t it? Few could have guessed on Monday we would have started the week with one Chancellor and ended with another. I suspect Mr Javid has probably crossed No.10 off his Valentine’s card list this week. So was it a mistake or a piece of bold action […]
KLAY Schools launches content platform for parents
Kids Learning And You (KLAY) Schools, a chain of non-franchised pre-schools and daycare centres, launched a content platform for parents on Friday. The platform, which is called That Parent Thing, will provide knowledge and experiences from experts and parents across a variety of subjects including work and life. The experts will include a speech therapist, […]
Trump asserts on Twitter he has right to interfere in DOJ cases after Barr criticizes president’s tweets
Attorney General William Barr listens as President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks and signs the Operation Lady Justice Executive Order to address the issue of missing and murdered Native Americans in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, Nov 26, 2019 in Washington, DC. Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images […]
Ohio auditor finds six weaknesses in Cuyahoga County accounting practices in 2018 – cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Ohio auditor identified six issues with the accounting practices of Cuyahoga County Executive Armond Budish’s administration in 2018 that left open the possibility of financial misstatements going undetected. The deficiencies, identified by auditors as “material weaknesses”, were released Thursday in Ohio Auditor Keith Faber’s annual report on county finances. Unlike the […]
Euro zone GDP slows as expected in Q4, but employment beats consensus
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone economic growth slowed as expected in the last three months of 2019 as gross domestic product shrank in France and Italy against the previous quarter, but employment growth picked up more than expected, official estimates showed on Friday. The European Union’s statistics office Eurostat said GDP in the 19 countries […]
China’s startups on the ropes after virus freezes funding
By Lulu Yilun Chen China’s highest-flying technology startups are struggling to stay afloat after the coronavirus outbreak threatened to paralyze critical venture capital funding. Investment in an industry that runs on face-to-face contact and gut instinct has fallen off a cliff since the epidemic erupted in January. Venture capital funds slashed startup investment by 60% […]
Myntra names its new chief technology officer
Fashion etailer Myntra has announced a new appointment in its leadership team. Raghu Krishnananda has been named as its new chief technology officer (CTO). He was last working as the head of service platforms at Samsung Research Institute in Bengaluru. With over two decades of experience as a tech expert, Krishnananda has led R&D teams […]
RBS set to rebrand under NatWest name
Royal Bank of Scotland, the part nationalised bank baled out by the government, plans to rebrand under the NatWest name later this year. The news comes after a positive set of results for RBS which saw profits double in 2019 to £3.1bn from £1.7bn the previous year. Its private banking operations, Coutts and Adam & […]