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Browse the archive of special reports from the Business and Management Faculty. Each report provides an in-depth look at a major topic, written by specialists.
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Exclusive SR72 The aspiring CFO
  • Nov 2021
  • PDF (1,950kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
A practical, realistic, hands-on and immense learning opportunity of all you need to know to become the CFO
Exclusive SR71 The Retail Revolution
  • Sep 2021
  • PDF (2,126kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Our focused report on retail will detail the vast changes that have been undertaken in this industry since the onset of Covid, and how you can adapt to get to the top
Exclusive SR70 Business resilience
  • Apr 2021
  • PDF (3,024kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Business resilience is a skill not easily learned or acquired, but so vital to the survival and overall success of your business. Use your guide to ensure you have all the right tools in your armoury to succeed in such uncertain times.
Exclusive Special Report 69: Effective collaboration
  • Nov 2020
  • PDF (2,073kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Collaboration has been a trendy buzz word in business lexicon for some time now, but, as the pandemic has done with many other ‘nice-to have’ skills, it has now become absolutely necessary to master. With your colleagues, business partners, suppliers and all other stakeholders more than likely working from home, and maybe even across different locations and time zones, effective collaboration is essential
Exclusive Special Report 68: Commercial Insight
  • Sep 2020
  • PDF (1,761kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
This special report explores how to be more commercial to add value and generate profit for your firm.
Exclusive SR67 Problem solving
  • Apr 2020
  • PDF (1,647kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
This month’s special report focuses on solving problems of all shapes and sizes in the workplace. Whatever your position in the hierarchy, there are practical hints and tips included to make your day-to-day work easier and more efficient.
Exclusive Special Report 66: Managing Change
  • Dec 2019
  • PDF (1,804kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Change is inevitable, it is all around us. Brexit, political upheaval, increasing regulation and a growing protectionist agenda make it incredibly difficult to run your business.BAM are here to help, with our special report on managing change, we can help successfully guide you through inevitable change with our practical tips and hands on approach.
Exclusive Special Report 65 - Smart Reporting
  • Sep 2019
  • PDF (1,597kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
This special report will be a handy go-to guide – we take you through the latest techniques and thinking behind the new smart world with which CFOs, and aspiring CFOs, must contend.
Exclusive Special Report 64: Managing People
  • Apr 2019
  • PDF (1,487kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Managing people is one of the most important skills needed to successfully navigate your way to the top of the corporate ladder. This report provides practical tips and advice on topics such as team management, dealing with difficult people and the effect of technology on recruitment.
Exclusive Special Report 63: Innovation
  • Dec 2018
  • PDF (1,674kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Innovation is key to improving productivity and efficiency. This report covers the subject with practical and interesting articles.
Exclusive Special Report 62: Corporate Image ... more than a logo
  • Sep 2018
  • PDF (2,155kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Developing and enhancing your branding as a business can greatly enhance your market presence, especially on-line. This report covers the most important aspects to bear in mind when developing a brand strategy.
Exclusive Special Report 61: The UK economy
  • Jun 2018
  • PDF (1,617kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
This report explores many of the hot topics now facing the UK and global economy.
Exclusive Special report 60: Communication skills
  • Mar 2018
  • PDF (2,459kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
This report seeks to assist with some of the more pertinent reporting needs for busy finance executives at all levels.
Exclusive Special Report 59: Finance and Technology
  • Dec 2017
  • PDF (5,640kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
This month’s report looks at the impact and influence that technology is having on our roles in finance.
Exclusive Special Report 58: Courageous Leadership
  • Sep 2017
  • PDF (1,654kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
Courage is one of the skills that great leaders are deemed to need and perhaps the most important. This report covers the key areas that leaders might want to focus on.
Exclusive Special Report 57: Export for growth
  • Jun 2017
  • PDF (5,674kb)
  • Business and Management Faculty
This report provides a practical and useful guide to global exporting and includes interviews with SME exporters.
Exclusive Special Report 56: Soft skills that FDs need
  • Mar 2017
  • PDF (5,953kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
A special report looking at the soft skills that FDs need to succeed
Exclusive Special Report 55: IT policy and the FD
  • Dec 2016
  • PDF (5,490kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This quarter’s report deals with IT from a finance perspective, from practical password advice to advances in software.
Exclusive Special Report 54: Pricing
  • Sep 2016
  • PDF (3,771kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This quarter's report deals with the practical aspects of pricing strategy, from market positioning of new products to through to those at the end of their life cycle.
Exclusive Special Report 53: Financial strategy: forecasting issues
  • Jun 2016
  • PDF (3,848kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This quarterly report discusses high level issues surrounding forecasting - the risk and rewards of making them and global issues which may affect your forecasts.
Exclusive Special Report 52: People and skills
  • Feb 2016
  • PDF (4,295kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This quarterly report deals with recruiting and retaining the right staff with good practical tips and advice from a variety of specialists.
Exclusive Special Report 50: Business reporting
  • Sep 2015
  • PDF (3,118kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This special report contains a few essentials on reporting of use to finance manager, controller and directors, including micro entity reports, the visual impact of reports and lean accounting.
Exclusive Special Report 49: Skills and Productivity
  • Jun 2015
  • PDF (2,470kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This report provides the background and some explanations of the issues surrounding UK productivity including articles by leading think tanks and economists exploring the background and possible reasons for the UK's relatively poor performance.
Exclusive Special Report 48: Budgeting
  • Mar 2015
  • PDF (2,802kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
The role of budgets and budgeting is fundamental to planning business ventures. We hope that this report will provide you with a practical and interesting guide to budgeting.
Exclusive Special Report 47: Smarter business planning
  • Dec 2014
  • PDF (1,467kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
Creating a written business plan offers the opportunity for an enterprise to clarify and understand it's objectives before exposing them to a wider group. This report will help to draw up your plans and offer some ideas which you haven't considered.
Exclusive Special Report 46: Growing your business
  • Sep 2014
  • PDF (1,487kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This report is primarily aimed at smaller businesses seeking to grow and develop and to achieve their full potential through practical guidance and advice.
Exclusive Special Report 45: Risk and recovery
  • Jun 2014
  • PDF (2,916kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
From how the ISO can assist with risk assessments to dealing with insurance claims, this practical and useful report provides guidance to this topic of concern to us all.
Exclusive Special Report 44: Change management and reorganisation
  • Mar 2014
  • PDF (1,333kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
The rapid rise in company collapse seen in the last decade is blamed on the failure to diversify and change; this report covers some of the practical aspects of reorganisation and change management.
Exclusive Special report 43: 21 years - a celebration
  • Dec 2013
  • PDF (1,092kb)
  • Finance & Mangment Faculty
This quarter's special report is a 21 anniversary special, reproducing some of the best articles that we've published since our inauguration in 1992.
Exclusive SR42 Starting a Business
  • Sep 2013
  • PDF (932kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
Many dream about starting their own business, but few have the courage, perseverance and the appropriate appetite for financial risk to be able to work for themselves
Exclusive Special Report 41: Financial planning and cost management
  • Jun 2013
  • PDF (6,761kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This special report covers activity based costing and forecast modelling as well as looking at the management of staff expenses.
Exclusive Special Report 40: Financial fraud
  • Mar 2013
  • PDF (769kb)
  • Finance and Management Faculty
Financial Fraud: What it is, practical steps to reduce the likelihood of occurrence and how to minimise damage from the repercussions.
Exclusive Special Report 39: Leadership
  • Dec 2012
  • PDF (572kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This special report on leadership has been compiled to point you in the right direction in your leadership search. The authors all firmly support the idea that, although some leaders may be born, many more are made, and the appropriate training and support forms a vital component in this development.
Exclusive Special report 38: Lean thinking
  • Sep 2012
  • PDF (354kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
Our special report outlines the core concepts and thought processes behind the lean philosophy and aims to provide yoiu with the fundamental tools to help you get started with adopting a lean framework.
Exclusive Special Report 37: Decision making
  • Jun 2012
  • PDF (475kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This special report aims to provide an overview of the key aspects you should understand to improve your current processes. The report is split into two sections - 'Practical tips' offers useful guidance including a case study and experiences from members of the faculty committee and 'The big picture' examines the theory behind the process from a leadership and data quality perspective.
Exclusive Special Report 36: Behavioural economics
  • Mar 2012
  • PDF (789kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This report highlights the importance of understanding the human behaviour in our choice selection. It introduces the key behavioural principles that you should be familiar with as business professionals. Business applications are explored through practical examples including project appraisal, pricing and securing investment.
Exclusive Special Report 34: Balanced scorecard
  • Oct 2011
  • PDF (442kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This special report discusses how to ensure success, the technology available to support the tool and how to incorporate your business strategic objectives into your balanced scorecard.
Exclusive Special Report 33: Project Management
  • Jun 2011
  • PDF (275kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This special report provides both an overview of project management and a discussion of current issues and challenges that most project teams face.
Exclusive Special Report 32: Personal development for accountants in business
  • Mar 2011
  • PDF (322kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
This report covers the core areas of personal development that professional accountants will find invaluable in progressing their careers.
Exclusive Special Report 31: Finance transformation - the outsourcing perspective
  • Dec 2010
  • PDF (306kb)
  • Finance & Management Faculty
The authors of this outsourcing special report share their expertise on topics including service level agreements, people management, and innovation and technology.
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