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FINANCE Groups join hands to push management accounting

08/02/2012 : KUALA LUMPUR : While the global financial crisis has brought on unprecedented challenges for companies, management accountants, with their depth of understanding of businesses, can help them overcome their troubles and create long-term sustainability, said Charles Tilley, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
Fighting scammers

06/02/2012 : Consumers at times are too overwhelmed by the complicated array of financial products to weigh actual risk and return. So when contacted by call-centre gangs or victimised by credit-card or email fraud, they feel positively helpless.

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