1 Local government finance officers found the tax very difficult to administer.

2 It is no wonder that local government finance officers regard the poll tax as a financial nightmare.

3 Salim's chief finance officer says it took only a day to get the rebate.

4 Their opposite numbers in the spending departments are the principal finance officers.

5 Cost-improvement programmes, which are meant to generate internal savings, are proving far harder to deliver, finance officers say.

6 The cost of each study was calculated with the advice of a health economist and a hospital finance officer.

7 Although this replacement assumption seems rather unrealistic, it does approximate what many corporate finance officers would like to achieve.

8 "The industry can't wait that long," said David Pace,[] chief finance officer at Bahrain's Unicorn Investment Bank.

9 Follow the coverage of the Davos summit this week and count the number of times a corporate finance officer for some accounting-software company or other is described as a business leader.

10 Now, as an officer working in the budgeting office, I have to lobby my director and chief finance officer that we be given more money for training and sensitization of women.

11 "I would not spend that money, " because the benefit doesn't seem worth it, says Svensson, 80, a former corporate finance officer from Bedford, Mass.