Vol. 19 No. 2, March 2003
Index
- From the editor.
- Allianz targets D&O marketplace.
- Fewer bankers chasing M&A.
- 'To-do' list for board compensation committees.
- 10 steps for meeting new governance rules.
- R&D spending forecast weak.
- Clarification.
- New corporate governance handbook.
- Online site focus: business assurance.
- Business intelligence.
- Financial analysis.
- Risk management.
- Contract management.
- Document management.
- Systems integration.
- Impending Crisis: Too Many Jobs, Too Few People.
- Out of the Box: Strategies for Achieving Profits Today and Growth Tomorrow Through Web Services.
- Toxic Emotions at Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict.
- The future of corporate reporting: from the top.
- Converging on the language of financial reporting.
- Director of a troubled company? Stay alert! As a director of a troubled company, decisions you make can trigger huge potential liabilities--unless you take steps to limit or avoid your exposure.
- Does issuing dividends: President Bush's plan to eliminate the individual tax on dividends has spurred real strategy debates within companies--with CFOs often differing with their CEOs.
- Considering taking your public company private? The number of companies going private is increasing, just as the number of companies going public has decreased. Several compelling factors are driving the trends.
- Best practices for online annual reports.
- Venture funding gets less venturesome: it's become very difficult to get capital for start-up enterprises, no matter how promising their ideas. Venture firms are directing their money toward more proven entities.
- Corporate heroes: extraordinary execution; in a struggling global economy, some companies are demonstrating heroic qualities to overcome tremendous obstacles.
- Using BI tools to turn information into action.
- BI crucial to making the right decision: business intelligence is all about collecting useful information from multiple sources and then presenting it in an easy to understand format.
- Yes, employee stock options can be valued: recent history can provide clues for valuing employee stock options (ESOs). In fact, some experts say they can be modeled much like mortgage securities.
- Verification key to financial market rebound.
- Thinking locally acting globally: that's not an easy concept for a lot of multinational companies, but an Oracle executive argues that the old ways of deferring to local practices need to be abandoned in favor of global standardization.
- Tax issues for foreign acquisitions: a tax attorney outlines the benefits and challenges of specific tax code treatments involving overseas buyers and sellers.
- Executive Deferred Compensation balancing responsibilities.
- Shaping winning business strategies with game theory: strategic gaming, based on modeling techniques created by John Nash, can help companies focus on what rivals are thinking and enhance their competitive positions.
- Corporate ethics ... "follow the leader"?
- Ask an FEI researcher about...business intelligence.
- Tackling the pension funding crisis.
- FEI and RHMR host global event in London.
- Sayther chosen as CEO of FEI.
- Chapter focus: Central Florida.
- BET Inc.
- Carlson Consumer Group.
- FleetBoston Financial Corp.
- GAAP/SEC database.
- Index Powered Financial Services (IPFS).
- Kadiri Inc.
- Limited Stores.
- Metron Technology.
- SIRVA Corp.
- Symbol Technologies Inc.
- Texas State Bank and Texas Regional Bancshares Inc.
- The Dallas Morning News.
- Jean-Luc DesChamps.