Finance

Alistair Rose, South East Regional Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, looks at what businesses can do to survive the economic slowdown in 2009 and some of the measures that can be taken to help companies come out stronger than their competitors.
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Daniel Dover, a partner at BDO Stoy Hayward  LLP who specialises in tax investigations has teamed up with financial writer Tim Hindle to  write a book about the potentially fraught  subject of tax investigations. The Taxman  Always Rings Twice explains the process  of a tax investigation, showing simply and straightforwardly what is involved, what is at stake, and how best to get through it.  Despite the fact that this is certainly no text book, approaching this very serious subject  as it does with a large pinch of humour, it nonetheless provides some useful tips to survival when faced with a  tax investigation.
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In the second half of what has been one of the most challenging years in recent history, Alistair Rose takes a look at the current state of the marketplace in the South East and what the economic landscape could look like during the eventual upturn. 
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Sentiment about the economic outlook has been extremely volatile this year. After a very depressive winter, the mood swung dramatically in the spring and we are now seeing commentators competing on spotting “green shoots”. How much should we buy into this new optimism? Paul Gresham reports. 
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