Coping with the cost of Christmas

Now that Christmas is over, it's time to run and hide from your bills, right?

Coping after Christmas

Now that Christmas is over, it’s time to run and hide from your bills, right? It’s probably harder to stick to your budget during the Christmas holidays than any other time of the year. It doesn’t even need to feel like a big Christmas to blow the budget.

Financial Director cover story: High Street blues

WALKING down your local town centre or high street counting the number of closing down sales or vacant shops makes for a depressing pastime. And not many of us can say our local shopping haunt has not become... well, haunted somewhat.

Questions To Ask When Preparing Your 2012 Marketing Plan

How did your organisation perform last year? How closely did your plans model reality? As Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth Carl Bernard Graf von Moltke (the Elder) noted back in the nineteenth century (paraphrased a bit), "no battle plan ever survives ...

In Portugal, Mirandese Spoken Here - and Only Here

In an isolated corner of Portugal, searching for Mirandese, the country's second official language, means a new -- and frugal -- reason to travel.