Vol. 20 No. 4, June 2004
Index
- Embracing financial transparency: the new era for Financial Executives.
- From the editor.
- Hyperion helps Bytemobile access success. A conversation with Randy Stevens.
- Budget analysis faulted.
- Let's consider 'employee directors'.
- Who's at fault for earnings 'misses'?
- Governance: ethics programs need work, Deloitte finds.
- Investing: survey builds case for 'green' stocks.
- To manage "scope creep".
- Compensation: survey shows real change in CEO pay.
- Fast-growing product and service private companies.
- In quotes.
- Pensions: great returns in '03, but do they translate?
- Changing course: ahold to repay debt, tighten controls.
- Employers with lower healthcare cost.
- Management: tips for enhancing corporate accountability.
- Markets; Study: expensing doesn't hurt stock.
- Workplace: best workplaces for executive women.
- 70% of U.S. companies still use spreadsheets.
- FRx Software Corp.
- IceNet LLC.
- Vericept.
- Oversight Technologies.
- Upstream Solutions.
- Beyond the Core: Expand Your Market Without Abandoning Your Roots.
- Golf and the Game of Leadership: An 18-Hole Guide for Success in Business and in Life.
- Inte the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis and Clark's Daring Westward Expedition.
- FASB Chairman Herz reviews key issues.
- Is software the solution for Sarbanes-Oxyley.
- Putting directors in the classroom.
- Speeding up the close: instead of grumbling about the significant time and resources required to comply with new regulatory demands, many companies see a golden opportunity for finance to lead the way to better decision-making.
- Accounting school gets an ethics makeover: while accredited professionals naturally keep up in their fields, the new legislation is driving many to hone their ethics skills and knowledge as well.
- We're off to see the Wizard.... The JobWizard, that is!
- Six essentials for the strategic treasurer: treasurers are encouraged to go beyond their traditional role and 'think out of the box' as a way to earn a seat at the management table.
- The heat stays on.
- How Sarbanes-Oxley affects merger considerations: two attorneys analyze the ways in which the law could impact companies' merger activity--inciuding internal control issues and public company deals for private firms.
- Are you on top of your software licensing? Recognition of the issue, and use of license tracking software, can go a long way toward cutting costs and warding off fines from vendors able to show licensing violations.
- Rising healthcare costs: searching for a cure; With health insurance premiums rising at double-digit rates, one solution--an option in several new plans--encourages employees to think like consumers of their own healthcare.
- Environmental transparency: areas for concern; An attorney details some of the pitfalls that companies face in assessing the significance of their potential environmental liability--and failure to act properly to disclose it.
- ERISA suits spark liability concerns: With litigation and payouts rising--and not expected to abate soon--employers need to take fiduciary responsibilities seriously, reviewing and revamping their coverage.
- Ask FERF (financial executives research foundation) about ... healthcare plans and costs.
- Second term best for Social Security reform: the proposals from the president's first term have been vetted publicly and will be primed for debate in Congress, and it is important that Social Security reform receives the attention that is needed to place the program on sound financial footing for the future.
- Chapter award winners.
- Summit highlights.
- Bob Shepler.
- Chapter awards.
- FEI adds health insurance benefit.
- FEI's Committee on Corporate.
- FEI's National Staff.
- Florence Chung.
- Upcoming conferences.
- Meet the staff: financial executives research foundation (FERF) and administration/operations.
- June 2004.
- A. Barry Rand.
- Can't cut your way to prosperity.
- John Oltman.
- Paul J. Burkitt.
- Bryan R. Roub.
- Craig Gruchacz.
- David Steiner.
- David W. Kay.
- Gordon Margolese.
- Gregory Sessler.
- James F. Parslow.
- Kurt Ramin.
- Michael Lombardi.
- Norman G. Fornella.
- Richard W. Edwards.
- Sara Sirotzky.
- Scott McDonald.
- Steve Vogeding.
- Terry G. Davis.
- Darren R. Jackson.
- Emerging markets. Will the party run out of punch?