=+12 'I run this business the way I want to. Shareholders and bankers are told once a year how we performed but I will not give them details or meet regularly with them. We have a business to run. Bankers should be treated like any supplier - make them com-

pete to provide the lowest cost service and put everything out to tender and let them bid for each scrap of work.'

Consider this statement by a finance director and relate it to the efforts many treas-

urers and finance directors make in their relationships with finance providers.