Financial Executive

Section 404 compliance and 'tone at the top'.

President'sPAGE - Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404

From the editor.

Ernst & Young.

FYi - Internal control reporting under Section 404 - Brief Article

In quotes.

Outsourcing; Study: many firms question benefits.

BusinessBRIEFS

Computer security: networks face new email-related threats.

BusinessBRIEFS

Financing: asset securitization done for software.

BusinessBRIEFS - Financing of business software

Key findings about innovation.

BusinessBRIEFS - Brief Article

KPMG.

FYi - Reinsurance - Brief Article

Financial reporting: companies still lack key reporting data.

BusinessBRIEFS - Brief Article

Human resources: 'paid time off' area seen ripe for savings.

BusinessBRIEFS - Brief Article

Litigation: company stock plans more prone to suits.

BusinessBRIEFS

Parson Consulting.

FYi

Equity: Why Employee Ownership Is Good for Business.

BookSHELF - Brief Article - Book Review

Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy.

BookSHELF - Book Review

Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better from a Crisis: 7 Essential Lessons for Surviving Disaster.

BookSHELF - Brief Article - Book Review

Internal control weaknesses in April highlight leases.

DomesticNEWS - Illustration

SEC extends dates for stock option compliance.

DomesticNEWS - Securities and Exchange Commission

SEC to publicly release comment letters, responses.

DomesticNEWS - Securities and Exchange Commission - Brief Article

Anxiety over IFRS called 'overdone'.

GlobalVIEWS - International Financial Reporting Standards - Brief Article

U.S. FPIs urged not to slack off 404 implementation.

GlobalVIEWS - Foreign private issuers - Brief Article

Benchmarking strategy vital to business performance.

PRIVATEcompanies

M & A: how to put money in the bank; Fifth Third Bancorp CFO Mark Graf talks about the Ohio-based regional bank's highly successful merger strategy and the process it has in place to assure that the deals work.

Deals and dealmakers

Companies sensing a big chill with auditors: the outside auditor-corporate client relationship has changed considerably in the advent of Sarbanes-Oxley and the PCAOB rules. Stricter standards and an insistence on independence have created uncertainty and some friction.

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

The neglected art of strategic pricing: too often, senior executives don't view pricing as a key responsibility. That leaves the decisions to lower-ranking managers who don't see the bigger picture, with the result that pricing loses potential effectiveness.

Strategy

Unified communications: where the world is heading; The convergence of network appliances with employees' electronic devices is helping businesses lower communication costs while improving knowledge-worker productivity and customer service.

IT integration

Aligning the IT organization to boost financials: a well-managed IT organization can be a valuable partner in addressing change and managing risk enterprise-wide. Aligning this awareness with the primary profit drivers involves managing IT as a professional services organization.

Information Technology

Is accounting education relevant? Many are questioning the quality--not to mention the quantity--of accounting graduates and their abilities to handle the onslaught of complex transactions and technical regulations. Are the schools--and the students--preparing for accounting in the 'real world?'.

Accounting education

Managing e-business risk to mitigate loss: along with the speed and convenience of e-business come new risks, such as identity theft and cyberextortion. Technology has increased the amount of confidential information at risk, and can exacerbate financial and reputational loss.

Risk management

Get into the value habit: knowing what makes your company valuable is important, but it's not enough. Getting from 'knowing' to 'doing' requires real change. Here are eight behaviors that have helped organizations bridge the 'knowing-doing' gap.

Management