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The four mergers that we examined in depth accounted for 90 per cent of the estimated costs of the 18 planned mergers, so we expect them to make up the majority of the costs to date.
However, the part of the business that I am accountable for, which is manufacturing and operations, is still quite male dominated in some particular areas of production.
Large multinational businesses that have a significant footprint in Scotland are clearly able and want to plan methodically to take into account uncertainty and what might unfold.
Generally, the account management approach appears to be working.There has been some controversy about whether non-account-managed companies are looked after properly.
We have been told about the idea of quality-adjusted life years and putting a cost on such things. I am an accountant, so I quite like the approach, but I also feel that it is a bit hard-hearted, in some ways.