Accountancy
Accounting for dotcoms
Michael Kavanagh writes on the latest developments in financial reporting of Internet companies

Book Review
Sufi sampler
SOME stupidity is unavoidable. But lots of people deliberately make themselves stupid, and thus prevent themselves from understanding things that would be of value to them, says Idries Shah in Knowing how to know: A pra ctical philosophy in the Sufi Tradition. People who appear to be intelligent are often quite obtuse in the methods that they use in assessing something and because of their repute or ebullient manner, however, they are not regarded as stupid. ``T his is one reason why stupidities of thought are so easily propagated: they are passed on by those whom the public takes as being all-round intelligent people,'' says Shah. Here are a few excerpts from the book:

Management
Surviving the minister
Martin Stanley on the importance of communication skills for civil servants

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