Intangible assets make up enormous amounts of the value generated by most companies. Yet, we barely know how to value them and we don’t know what might happen if they suddenly lose their value. Could Ireland’s intangible boom bust?
To really become a global hub, we need a new pre-fabricated, modular off-shore port system connected by bridge added to coastal towns around the island to facilitate short range electric, autonomous ferry services.
Irish banks should embrace the trend toward higher degree of automation in management of clients' services and accounts, opening up the sector to fintech solutions rather than waiting for them to eat the banks' lunch.
Banks are different. They are structurally vulnerable to crisis. We can’t know when or where the next banking crisis will occur, but we do know that with their current structure there will be one.
After almost a quarter of a millennium broadly tied to gold, the money of the world was cut free in 1971. Over five columns, John Looby examined the impact of that decision on the world of finance. Here is the combined series.
As the rest of us were lashing back the Prosecco on New Years’ Eve, Google announced it was stopping its use of the infamous ‘double Irish’ tax structure. Google knows that change is coming because sentiment is changing.
In November and December, Stephen Kinsella published a 6-part series entitled: Where are is going? Combined, it stretches to more than 12,000 words and contains more than 30 graphs and data sets. Today, we have combined it into one document.
Just like appreciating the negative impact of limp handshakes and folded arms, understanding the value of time, when people have so little of it, is crucial to creating rock-solid relationships. Personally, I find lateness completely unacceptable.
From sailing rivalry with her sister in their teenage years to her decision to return to the Laser class for a chance at Olympic gold and lessons to be learned from hard-boiled eggs, Olympian Annalise Murphy shares her leadership secrets in extracts from Pete Smyth's Potential Squared podcast.
There are many tax pitfalls for the unwary corporate globetrotters. Yet, the management of foreign subsidiaries is one of the few occasions where corporate governance and tax planning can assume equal importance.
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