Vol. 21 No. 10, December 2005
Index
- There's good reason why CFO pay is rising.
- From the editor.
- Capital: E & Y study captures data on investments.
- PwC/Corporate Board Member.
- Reporting; Sarbanes-Oxley effect: caution on guidance.
- Compliance: trade secrets now open door to liability.
- Correction.
- Expenses: most expect office, travel costs to rise.
- Institutional investors: activist investors seen boosting ownership.
- Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
- Cash management; Payment cards draw more interest: survey.
- Deloitte Financial Advisory Services.
- Employment: survey finds unease with career choices.
- In quotes.
- In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century.
- Stooples: Office Tools for Hopeless Fools.
- The Market for Virtue: The Potential and Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility.
- The relevance of reliability: an update on the FASB and IASB joint conceptual framework project.
- FASAC announces 2006 priorities.
- New SEC vacancy as Bailey departs.
- Making sense of mezzanine financing.
- Sarbanes-Oxley report card is mixed: three years after the law was enacted, has it made a demonstrable difference in the level of corporate fraud? Opinion is divided, at best, though there's a general feeling that corporate governance has improved.
- Managing all those zeroes: a look inside Microsoft's treasury; As Microsoft Corp.'s vice president and treasurer, George Zinn's role is not different from that of many of his peers who manage their company's assets and juggle multiple responsibilities--except, perhaps, as it relates to scale: Microsoft has $49 billion in assets to manage.
- Inside a steel deal: a new, state-of-the-art steel mill is starting to rise in Mississippi. A look at the complex financing behind it.
- Averting potentially costly electronic discovery lapses: while lawyers have been concerned about the implications of electronic discovery for some time, recent court judgments--including a $1.45 billion verdict--have made this a significant financial issue.
- Healthcare outlook 2006: from a gallop down to a canter; While healthcare costs continue to wildly outpace inflation, the rate is heading down. Healthcare consultants weight in on trends to watch in 2006.
- Best practices: organizational structure that supports compliance; Traditional organizational structure is crumbling under the weight of ever-increasing regulations that drive greater accountability and transparency. Smart companies are on the forefront of building new and improved structures that support and enhance this new compliance environment, and best practices are emerging.
- Before circling the wagons, know your needs: financial executives need to focus on critical technology needs and vulnerabilities, and not be swayed by technical jargon and their own lack of knowledge. Establishing priorities and striking a cost-effective balance are critical.
- How buyers can get an edge in middle-market deals: it's a sellers' market out there. Two attorneys argue that buyers need to avoid overpaying and focus on the markup and negotiation of the purchase agreement.
- Having difficulty implementing multiple initiatives? Try planning in reverse: "backplanning" is an approach that many CFOs and their teams are using to collectively visualize the interdependence among teams' key milestones for initiatives competing for resources and funding.
- 4 myths about attorney-client privilege.
- Are regulations changing management reports? A recent Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) survey reviews year-one disclosure practices for management's reports on internal controls, and looks at trends likely for year two.
- Certus Software Inc.
- Ernst & Young.
- Hyperion.
- MindSolve Technologies.
- Movaris.
- Ask FERF about ... process improvements in Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 for year-two compliance.
- Likelihood of higher PBGC premium hikes looms.
- Buyers guide.
- GOC has new goal.
- Private company forum, Chicago.
- Crossword.
- Hinchman reviews reporting issues.
- Names in the news.
- Stephen O. Richard.