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Technical articles

• Tax incentives for promotion of investment - relevant to Paper P6 (MYS)
• by Richard Thornton
• relevant to ACCA Qualification Paper P6 (MYS)
• Ready to sit Paper F8?
• by Alan Lewin
• relevant to ACCA Qualification Paper F8
• The importance of financial reporting standards to the auditor
• by Lisa Weaver
• relevant to ACCA Qualification Paper P7
• Factoring and invoice discounting
• by Ann Irons
• relevant to CAT Paper 10

Feature articles

• All joined up
• student accountant takes a look at how the large inernational accountancy firm operate, and how they are growing and changing
• Twenty years in China
• ACCA has marked 20 years in Mainland China with a ceremony in the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing
• Class news - 200 new graduates
• 166 graduates from the BSc (hons) degree in applied accounting, and 34 MBA graduates from the ACCA OBU distance learning MBA, received congratulations from Oxford Brookes university vice chancellor, Professor Janet Beer
• The Amex experience
• Victoria Morgan finds out how American Express supports its ACCA members and students using a variety of learning and development tools
• New UK workplace legislation now in place
• UK business needs to make sure it has prepared for new legislation which came into force on 1 October, warns John Davies, ACCA head of business law
• Sustainable and responsible business
• ACCA says that small businesses can be sustainable and responsible, and that these two worthy attributes are not the sole domain of large business
• First winners of ACCA scholarships are announced
• The first students to be awarded with scholarships to provide them with valuable support to help them complete their ACCA studies have been announced
• Governance failure in banks is key to credit crunch, argues ACCA
• ACCA's policy paper Climbing Out of the Credit Crunch, examines five key areas and recommends that accepted practices need to change to avoid future failures
• Help or hindrance?
• Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent over 99% of UK businesses, but research from ACCA shows that the ability to alter their established form when the economic environment changes can be the key to continued success

Learning centre advice

• 3 things you should know about - listening in lectures
• Problem solved - words not numbers
• Talking technology - it's time to join Generation X

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