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We've successfully completed another year's 8-Hour Cycle Challenge at Brands Hatch. fdu entered three teams in this year's exciting day’s cycling, testing our endurance and team spirit with friends and colleagues.

The pandemic slowly rumbles on, and businesses are noticing a fundamental shift occurring with employees gaining more influence over their work environments than ever before.

While circumstances due to the pandemic have often been dire, they have also had positive outcomes such as a new job or even career due to events forcing a new direction, a new attitude or new ideas.

The attractions of an IPO can be many and varied. This does however come with obligations the company needs to comply with.

The Olympics is not the only place where athletic, agile and driven behaviour gets you to the pinnacle of your career.

Rapid growth retailing is a turbulent journey. When it’s time to make big decisions that determine your future, you need to be adequately prepared.

How do NEDs address strategy and long term value creation, particularly at a point where we are still working through short term priorities such as the pandemic and lockdowns?

NEDs can coach CEOs and CFOs on key areas where they may not have experience but which are required in the PLC environment.

Non digital retailers face catastrophic failure in the evolving competitive environment.

The appeal of product and price will always be important, but the digital experience is crucial to traffic, conversion and ultimately loyalty.

We have produced and read insightful content over the last year, so take a moment to browse through some elements of our ecosystem.

Good news for Hiring Managers looking to improve the likelihood of hiring a successful Candidate in 2021.

As a slightly different countdown to the New Year, we bring you a song for each day with a number in the title.

The pandemic has seen traditional lenders move to provide more working capital solutions to help pay VAT and HMRC bills in monthly instalments. This could prove crucial as businesses focus on preserving and managing cash flow.

The Interim To Permanent Trend … Is It Permanent? 2020 certainly has not delivered the usual in terms of [...]

For those executive teams that do not have the foresight to react early enough to change, one solution is to have sufficient challenge from the Chairman and the NEDs to stimulate debate which leads to action in time.

“What Personal Liability?” One Question For The CFO From Their Board Colleagues fdu’s guest blogger, David Tilston is a Chartered Accountant, [...]

Interim Management – The Secret Weapon In Times Of Change During periods of major transition, upheaval and change, organisations [...]

The New World of Work As lockdown slowly eases us back in to some sense of (adjusted) normality, more [...]

What Are The Key Topics Chairmen And NEDs Should Be Discussing Now? fdu’s guest blogger, David Tilston is a Chartered Accountant, [...]

Liquidity: some less obvious questions to ask fdu’s guest blogger, David Tilston is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of The Association [...]

The New Normal … Recruitment and Onboarding in Lockdown and Beyond In recent weeks, we have observed various adjustments [...]

Liquidity: Does The Global Financial Crisis Give Us Any Clues As To The Future? fdu’s guest blogger, David Tilston is a [...]

Liquidity Dynamics During a Period of Uncertainty fdu’s guest blogger, David Tilston is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of The Association [...]

Lockdown, Interim Management and Me Whilst we all find ourselves in unusual times, our ability to react, change and [...]

Liquidity: A Lesson From Past Crises fdu’s guest blogger, David Tilston is a Chartered Accountant, a Fellow of The [...]

Business Only Stops When Businesses Stop In this pandemic, theatres are empty, conferences have been cancelled, the great British [...]

Cash Management In Crisis Most businesses are facing a tricky path navigating the unique current circumstances and are trying [...]

Riding The Curveball In these unprecedented times, it is easy to get lost in the detail of the moment [...]

Diversity: If You Want Different Results, Set Realistic Expectations fdu’s guest blogger, Julia Warrack talks about the importance diversity [...]

Corporate Tech Functions, Embrace Your Inner People Managers fdu's guest blogger, Julia Warrack talks about the importance of [...]

In early January the Financial Conduct Authority sent an open letter to CEOs in the wholesale general insurance sector [...]

2019 represented the end of fdu’s first decade in Professional Services, and it has been a whirlwind 12 months. [...]

At fdu we have always championed the synergies in performance across both sport and business. There are countless examples [...]

As part of our #fduCONNECT theme for 2019, our guest blog by Martin Gibbs shares his perspective on moving [...]

As part of our #fduCONNECT theme for 2019, our fourth guest blog by David Burton completes his exploration of  [...]

As part of our #fduCONNECT theme for 2019, our third guest blog by David Burton continues his exploration of  the [...]

As part of our #fduCONNECT theme for 2019, our second guest blog by David Burton continues his exploration of  [...]

As part of our #fduCONNECT theme for 2019, our guest blog by David Burton explores  the differences between virtual [...]

Celebrating fdu's first decade in business this year, we are finding George Friedman's quote to ring true. In 2009 [...]

Looking back on our decade in business this year, it is clear that the driving force behind our vision [...]

We are a few days into the new year already and with an eventful one ahead, we have picked [...]

The climate of an organisation can be blown off course by one of many factors: market uncertainty; brain drain; [...]

How many times have you hesitated in life due to fear of failure? Held back, doubted yourself or feared [...]

Who would win a race between Nijinsky and Black Beauty? Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Nijinsky would, [...]

Leaders often wonder why a diverse talent pool at junior levels doesn’t equate to a similarly diverse senior management. [...]

The Finance Director’s primary role in fast growth and mid-cap environments is to support the CEO in delivering the [...]

The majority of organisations acknowledge that taking an overseas assignment is good for an employee’s career prospects. And to [...]

When was the last time you volunteered to do something meaningful which would support your career development and possibly [...]

International Women’s Day (IWD) was first celebrated in 1911 by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany and [...]

Political events over the last several years have led to an increasing amount of national navel-gazing. In the UK, [...]

Wherever you turn, disruption is taking place with businesses trying to accelerate by adopting a more strategic focus. At [...]

With all the news of now swirling around us and business, political and sporting events already racing relentlessly ahead [...]

The life of a Chief Financial Officer has never been easy or simple. If one thing is obvious, it’s [...]

Last week fdu hosted another successful event in our Committed To Growth Business Breakfast Series along with Clearwater International [...]

fdu hosted another successful event in our Committed to Change Business Breakfast Series, in partnership with Nolan Business Solutions. [...]

Even without a Year End looming, Finance and Accounts teams are always busy and it only takes one or [...]

Robust financial management in the Not For Profit sector has again come under the spotlight with yet another charity [...]

Over the years I cannot tell you how many times I have heard business leaders of growth companies declare, [...]

Once you decide you need a Finance Director for your business, how do you know if you’ve chosen [...]

Technology today is by its very nature disruptive. Smart business practice in the fast-paced tech environment therefore includes regularly [...]

If there’s one spreadsheet you have to set up, love, and cherish, it’s the cash flow forecast.  Visibility to [...]

With the debate about the gender pay gap in the workplace still rolling on, International Women’s Day is bringing [...]

As a leader, what do you consider to be important to your business? The numbers, definitely, but what about the [...]

Year End is always a stressful time, no matter how thorough the preparation. As a CFO or Finance Director, [...]

We have moved offices to a great new location. As of February 2017, our new address is: 4th Floor [...]

As we enter 2017, planning to take advantage of the commercial opportunities ahead of us, how many of our [...]

fdu CFO Series: Interview with Matthew Bonfield, Huntswood CFO In a series of interviews with CFOs in high growth [...]

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, businesses have been running a lot leaner, rarely extending beyond ten per [...]

Who would have predicted that out of all the technology available, those little devices glued to our hands or ears [...]

The new school year inevitably starts with the annual frenzied media attention lavished on the education sector. Among the current [...]

Not to be outdone by other sectors, retail is embracing technology in its race towards the future. However, it’s not [...]

UK manufacturing has taken a hit in the media with Brexit woes and general economic vulnerability. With Article 50 and [...]

fdu’s CEO Adam Bloch, recently completed four stages of the Tour De Force charity cycle challenge as part of his [...]

The world of retail has not been unaffected by the momentous Brexit vote. While some brands are experiencing shareholder uncertainty, [...]

Imagine being a manager of a company which sits nicely on the map of the world’s biggest live entertainment business. [...]

Jens Madrian is Chief Financial Officer and Chief Commercial Officer at Reactive Technologies.  He was formerly CFO of RWE npower with [...]

fdu’s CEO Adam Bloch, has signed up to join four stages of the Tour De Force charity cycle challenge as [...]

fdu's Richard Morris talks to Chief Financial Officer Swag Mukerji about the differences between private equity and Plc. businesses after his [...]

fdu is proud to be working in association with The Financial Times Corporate World Championships to host a business breakfast event with [...]

fdu’s CEO, Adam Bloch, has signed up to join four stages of the Tour De Force charity cycle challenge as [...]

Have you ever walked into a meeting with your boss feeling confident and well prepared yet you left deflated, confused [...]

The only constant in the world of technology is change. It is still astounding to see the speed at [...]

fdu’s CEO, Adam Bloch, has signed up to the join a stage of the Tour De Force charity cycle challenge [...]

Adventure of a Lifetime – Coldplay   "Turn your magic on" - Martin Song Choice:- I listened to this track as I [...]

Marking International Women’s Day, fdu’s Kira Owen discusses the representation of women in Finance and if it’s changed within her [...]

Once you decide you need a Finance Director, or your backers tell you it's a condition of their investment, how [...]

Former Chief Financial Officer at RWE npower, Jens Madrian shares his views on how technology developments have impacted businesses and [...]

Back in January this year we introduced fdu’s new strapline, committed to growth, stating our commitment to growth, both yours [...]

Retail professional and experienced Finance and Transformation Director; Adrian Abbott explains what SME’s can learn from FTSE 100 Companies. When [...]

fdu recently created a series of videos to communicate the fdu story, introduce the fdu team and to share some feedback from Clients which [...]

Doing deals is all about teamwork. For FDs and their board colleagues, that means having clear messages and conscious control [...]

It was an honour to be asked to judge the 2015 FDs’ Excellence Award for the Private Company FD of [...]

As soon as possible after the month end, beanies working in SME’s all over the world race to produce Management [...]