Vol. 22 No. 1, January 2006
Index
- Financial statements are trying to do too much.
- From the editor.
- Data security; Surveys: data losses spur consumer flight.
- Directors: SEC Commissioner sees more diversity.
- Job application areas candidates.
- Communication: employee communication linked to performance.
- Compliance with regulations.
- In quotes.
- Pensions: automatic enrollment in 401(k)s pushed.
- Strategies and competencies: too often misaligned.
- Compensation: nonprofits also urged to heed IRS scrutiny.
- Grant Thornton.
- People: former CFO turns to mystery writing.
- Building Better Boards: A Blueprint for Effective Governance.
- Multisourcing: Moving Beyond Outsourcing to Achieve Growth and Agility.
- The Eye for Innovation: Recognizing Possibilities and Managing the Creative Enterprise.
- FEI CEO's 2006 Top 10 Financial Reporting Challenges.
- PCAOB, SEC name Acting Chairs; SEC departures.
- Venture merchant banking: financing 'sales' vs. 'assets'.
- Born into darkness: FEI in the 1930s; Financial Executives International (FEI) was born against a backdrop of deep economic troubles. The organization was launched to help financial executives set the professional and ethical tone for their peers for decades to come.
- Stephen Covey on managing yourself and others: the celebrated self-help guru talks about developing habits that will help you keep focused, foster interdependency among colleagues and understand the principles of self-management in the Knowledge Economy.
- From red to black: rebuilding wounded companies; When faced with declines or disasters, a struggling company can cease operations or it can choose to fight, and in the process, turn the business around. Two experts share lessons learned from turnaround situations.
- Struggling to get attention: in the past few years, smaller public companies have found rough going when it comes to getting analyst coverage and the investor attention that goes with it. Hiring an outside specialist to handle IR is a route many should probably consider.
- Which comes first ... managing risk or strategy-setting? Both! Effectively integrating risk management with the strategy-setting process enables management to focus on achieving its expected return while controlling its accepted risk exposure.
- XBRL: a 'revolution' in corporate reporting? Touted by the SEC chairman as the next revolution in corporate reporting, FERF spoke with three early-adopter companies to find out why they favor this new format.
- Internal audit can deliver more value: IA groups have the potential to shape Sarbanes-Oxley compliance into a sustainable process and to position their companies to better leverage the significant investment already made in those compliance efforts.
- Governance and compliance: driving IT priorities; Recent regulatory and marketplace pressures are bringing corporate leaders to a new appreciation of just how critical IT is--not only for running operations, but for carrying out their fundamental leadership responsibilities.
- When accounting practices go under the microscope: once a financial investigation has begun, it's time for an all-hands-on-deck alert. Time is precious, and help from a broad-based forensic team--lawyers, accountants and other specialized professionals--can be highly valuable.
- Automated systems can work for small companies, too: all the focus on sophisticated BPM systems with dashboards and scorecards has some smaller organizations concerned about costs and the ability to handle complexity. But new, simpler systems can allow them to cost-effectively move beyond spreadsheets for managing the business.
- Accounts Payable.
- It security.
- Tax reform proposal finds a host of critics.
- Ask FERF about ... sources of information on XBRL.
- Buyers guide.
- Cash flow forecasting: do it better and save.
- CFRI examines 'year two' issues for section 404.
- FERF Award recipient.
- Crossword.
- Liliana De Vita.
- New Orleans keeps its tradition going.
- Names in the news.
- Deborah Wilson.