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Investors, analysts and corporate directors rely on external audits to keep companies honest. But a new study says audits are woefully ineffective at uncovering fraud. In fact, more than twice as m...
Corliss Group Online Financial Mag Hong Kong Between a rock and hard place One of a handful of Britain's remaining possessions, Gibraltar is an interesting anachronism says Gillian Vine. Last yea...
Philip Bowring is appalled by the report on fiscal planning(http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1443828/another-deficit-clear-thinking-among-hong-kongs-fiscal) that seeks to preserv...
Consumer goods manufacturer Procter & Gamble confirmed last week that they plan to sell off a total of 100 brands, suggesting deeper cuts than originally reported. P&G confirmed they have ...
Corliss Group Online Financial Mag Hong Kong Reading Spain's Economy Through Art Sales Spain's art world was whiplashed by the country's bubbly rise and quick collapse. Signs of the trauma linger ...
Call him Matt Black, which is not his real name. He looks like a clean-cut junior executive, but he has a dirty little secret. These days Black is a regular lilywhite. He's a husband and father an...
Corliss Group Online Financial Mag Hong Kong World's first physical bitcoin store opens in HK The world's first physical retail store selling the controversial virtual currency bitcoin h...
Corliss Group Online Financial Mag Hong Kong 5 Can't Miss Investing Stories Last Week Let the good times roll! The S&P/TSX Composite Index (TSX:^OSPTX) continued its month-long winning streak las...
Q: What's a leveraged buyout? A: A leveraged buyout (LBO) is when a company is bought out by another entity (or entities), using a lot of debt. Private-equity investors are typically invo...
As I get rolling on a new startup with my partners at Startup.SC, a startup incubator in South Carolina, I am reminded of a few painful mistakes many entrepreneurs, myself included, make when start...
Scottish nationalists are in a quandary: how to dissolve the three-century bond with the United Kingdom while preserving their monetary link with the British pound. And Hong Kong may provide the a...
When it comes to securing investment, the overwhelming challenge for most entrepreneurs comes from trying to determine how to make a convincing pitch. Fortunately, it does not have to be that diffi...
Japanese consumers and marketers alike certainly love their ヒット商品 (hitto shōhin, hit products). To understand how this term came about, we need to look back to the decade following World War II. Wh...
The real heroes of the world economy - the role models that others should emulate - are countries that have done relatively well while running only small external imbalances. Countries like Austr...
Did the Heritage Foundation ever send its experts into the streets of Hong Kong to meet ordinary people and ask them how free the city's economy has become in recent years? The right-wing US think ...
When it comes to securing investment, the overwhelming challenge for most entrepreneurs comes from trying to determine how to make a convincing pitch. Fortunately, it does not have to be that diffi...
