This morning, Interpublic hired Cordiant's group finance director Art D'Angelo to take over the top finance post at McCann-Erickson WorldGroup, the source of its recent accounting problems. As for Omnicom, Darbyshire foresaw an uncomfortable start to 2003, with $1.75bn in convertible redemptions and over $1bn in working capital outflows expected by September 2003. If you have an opinion on this or any other issue raised on Brand Republic, join the debate in the Forum here.