One mistake that non-financial people often make is to assume that financial people both know what they are talking about and understand all the financial
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Induction Programme You should have some form of induction programme. However, rather than leave it to the Company Secretary, it will be a better and
Famously, in 2008, the Queen asked economists why no-one saw the great financial crisis coming, not least as they were giving her a full retrospective