Vol. 21 No. 9, November 2005
Index
- Effective simplification needed to overcome complexity.
- From the editor.
- Benefits: smaller-firm workers often getting less.
- Ernst & Young.
- Governance: recruiter's study finds change, and progress.
- Grant Thornton.
- Insurance: industry CFOs focus on managing capital.
- Median credit decision times.
- Regulation: PCAOB enforcement chief warns auditors.
- In quotes.
- Outsourcing; Study: more using specialized contracts.
- Technology: tape-based backup of data seen unreliable.
- Watson Wyatt.
- Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others, 2nd Edition.
- Performance Without Compromise: How Emerson Consistently Achieves Winning Results.
- The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism.
- FASB chairman Robert Herz: 'complexity impedes transparency'.
- FAF appoints Robert J. DeSantis president and COO.
- Replacements sought for two key regulators.
- Life settlements: means for cashing in key-person policies.
- Are more Katrinas on the Horizon? The devastation wrought by hurricanes Katrina and Rita will bring higher insurance rates. But longer-term, insurers need to better understand and address the rising risks many believe are being amplified by climate change.
- Taking stock at the PCAOB: in an interview, the PCAOB's chief auditor, Douglas R. Carmichael, reviews the agency's recent actions and the evolving regulation of accounting firms.
- Year-two Section 404 compliance: smart companies are working smarter; Following the second FEI forum on Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 compliance, FERF spoke with several participants about what practices are helping them achieve better, easier and less-costly approaches to compliance.
- CFOs embrace online travel booking: online providers eliminate the middleman for routine bookings, which can reduce processing time and travel costs substantially. That's made finance executives advocates of these systems.
- Two generations of CFOs: how different are they? We asked CFOs under 40 and over 60 years of age how they approach the same challenges, circa 2005. Here's what they had to say.
- The whistleblower hotline quandary: diverse whistleblower systems around the globe--and hotlines deemed illegal in France--are creating problems for companies seeking to operate uniform, global systems. Three attorneys review the issues and discuss possible solutions.
- Get better results from long-term incentive pay: performance-based long-term incentives do not merely reduce the variance in earnings or reduce P & L expense. They can improve business performance over the long run.
- The brave new world of IFRS: IFRS have been widely accepted, and are expected to enhance international financial reporting transparency, comparability and investment patterns. This progress will not come, however, without some unintended impacts on companies, countries and capital markets.
- Embedded controls boost Sarbanes-Oxley compliance: companies are installing treasury systems that automate financial activities and embed controls, as well as audit trails. Such systems can help ensure compliance without extensive manual reviews.
- New tax incentive benefits U.S. production activity: Section 199 of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 is referred to as a "manufacturing deduction," and many companies may not realize that its benefits apply to some business segments that are quite distinct from traditional manufacturing.
- Cognos.
- Geac Computer Corp.
- Hewlett-Packard Corp.
- PwC.
- AnchorPoint[TM].
- Compassoft Inc.
- FXpress Corp.
- Ask FERF about ... revised SEC deadlines.
- Hurricane perspectives: from Washington to the Gulf.
- CCR reacts to FSPs relating to 123(R).
- CFIT presents at SIM conference.
- Vintage research.
- FEI employees move ahead.
- Crossword.
- Buyers guide.
- Names in the news.
- Bill Romenius.