The subject of motivation as one of the HR-management areas has probably been ignored today only by the lazy. However, a great number of publications does not make this subject less vital. Besides, expecting to be in accord with most of my colleagues, I believe that of all HR-management functions (search, recruitment, training, development and assessment) motivation management is one of the hardest things.

The Cabinet of Ministers resigned to the new Rada at the end of 2007 had performed a significant spade-work directed to reform the tax system of Ukraine. Thus, the new Cabinet is now facing the issue whether to finalize that work, to propose its own version of changes or, alternatively, to leave everything as it is at the moment.

Changing auditor sounds like a good idea in theory, but is it a nightmare in practice?

Changing auditor when you’re a major public company can be a major pain in the neck.

As we all know, one of the basic accounting concepts presumes a business to be considered separately from its owner (stakeholder). This principle contributes a lot to our perception of business as alive entity rather than an abstract notion created on paper only.