Developing your Internal Audit team: beware the bow tie

Finding the right people can be challenging It’s a while since I had a proper...

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Airport capital projects: the importance of commercial assurance

Airports are difficult places to build things Capital expenditure projects in the UK aviation industry...

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A lesson from Carillion

Avoid the unnecessary risk of becoming a creditor to an insolvent company by avoiding overpayments...

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The traditional approach to cost checking is of limited value

Substantiation is of limited value Under cost reimbursable or target cost arrangements, clients need to...

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Are you wasting money on bums-on-seats cost checkers?

The need to check costs As companies wrestle with how to achieve financial efficiencies, it...

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Keep it simple – the dos and don’ts of saving £millions through cost effective commercial assurance

A foreign language I have two daughters, one who is 18 and the other 21. ...

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Zebra print trousers and the importance of an objective opinion

Trying on zebra print trousers I was once loitering outside the ladies changing rooms in...

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Top 5 reasons for nasty commercial surprises and how to avoid them

I like to ride my bike up mountains A few weeks ago I made a...

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Cost checking in major programmes: enhanced confidence or a waste of money?

Reducing the cost of checkers by two thirds I first entered into the world of...

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Exploiting data to drive down costs: “plucking the goose”

“Plucking the goose” The 17th century politician Jean-Baptiste Colbert described the art of taxation of...

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Timing is everything in rock and roll (and contract audit)

Part of my youth was misspent playing bass in a dodgy rock and roll band....

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Nobby’s Ford Escort and the questions you should ask of an organisation providing cost verification services

When I was a teenager, in the late 70’s and early 80’s my mates and...

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