Vol. 20 No. 8, November 2004
Index
- Cheaper, better faster: XBRL takes center stage in financial reporting.
- From the editor.
- Compliance: European firms lag on Sarbanes-Oxley.
- International: securities suits hit foreign registrants.
- Marsh Inc.
- Credit management: tips for evaluating business credit risk.
- In quotes.
- KPMG LLP.
- Reporting: intangibles key to future accounting.
- An Ernst & Young.
- Capital markets: survey spots trends in analyst coverage.
- Procurement: Internet supply model taking a pounding.
- Training: top trends in executive education.
- DiCarta Inc.
- IBM.
- The Financial Advisory Services practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
- Upside Software Inc.
- Hyperion.
- Securian Retirement Services'.
- Information and control: interdependent.
- What will you do in Sarbanes-Oxley's second year?
- Principles-based or rules-based standards?
- Giving shareholders short shrift: research shows that public companies decline to act on a substantial percentage of shareholder votes. Companies often say they know best, but some critics say they should be more accountable.
- Sarbanes-Oxley training gets web-enabled.
- Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: remediation, communication, education; Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) asked three audit firms for insights on testing of remediation of internal control weaknesses, and the need for communicating what the new internal control reports will mean.
- Convergence: hurdles remain; With convergence a necessity in a global economy, it is likely to be some time before all are 'singing from the same song sheet'--and it will take time and commitment for standard setters to work together to remove differences.
- Today's CFO: coping with change.
- How to boost pay for performance: companies could build better incentives in their executive compensation plans by adopting pay policies that tie compensation opportunity to performance, a consultant argues.
- Sarbanes-Oxley 404's tax implications: the law may actually provide companies with the opportunity to better align tax and business processes and help them reach key objectives.
- Boosting business performance through benchmarking: benchmarking both external and internal data and using business performance management (BPM) tools can do much to make organizations more efficient and productive.
- Is your data comparable and consistent? If it isn't, that can cast doubt on the relevance and reliability of enterprise financial data. More than anything, companies need to manage fundamental changes to financial master data values.
- Ask FERF (financial executives research foundation) about ... managing information technology applications.
- Fannie Mae accounting shenanigans could spur more oversight.
- Buyers guide.
- Technical committee profile: Committee on Taxation.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Gerald "Jerry" Urich.