Accountant and entrepreneur Stuart Fitzgerald went looking for a business coach that would be a cross between Warren Buffet and the character of Wendy Rhoades in the TV series Billions. Here is what he has found.
Vision Capital is IRES's seventh-biggest shareholder, and it is not happy. It wants IRES to strip itself down for parts. Is it right?
Why should the government bail out bad investors without stipulating any regulatory change? They should not. That would be the most economically and politically dangerous thing they could do. Yet, they’re doing it. I’m furious, and you should be too.
The recent Talent Summit focused on how of Human Resources has moved to centre stage. However, HR should ask questions such as “what will get our customers to buy from us?” and help the business achieve these external goals.
The US President's warm visit to Ireland looked a lot like a pre-campaign launch. The Democrats want to make the tax paid by multinationals a voting issue in next year's US election, with huge potential consequences for Ireland's public finances.
The guest list at the Stormont commemoration of the Good Friday Agreement showed that it worked because it brought in republicans. Adams understands it also requires unionist support.
While SVB had a very limited presence here, the worry is not only the contagion across the banking sector but the trickle-down effect the withdrawal of tech’s biggest bank will have on wider investors, who were already jittery.
For thousands of years, auditors have been working in the shadows to ensure financial accountability. Is it time to consider more pan-EU audits, with Germans auditing Irish institutions and vice-versa? Or to introduce artificial intelligence in the process?
The Biden administration’s budget reforms have so far circled around Ireland’s tax advantage without harming it. This wasn’t always the plan, so what will happen in the future?
CRH and Flutter are Ireland's two biggest companies, and they're both considering leaving the Dublin stock exchange this year. This is as much down to London as Dublin.
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