Vol. 22 No. 10, December 2006
Index
- A farewell, and plenty of thanks to pass around.
- From the editor.
- Grant Thornton Survey.
- Investigations shine light on procedures.
- Revamped Web site keys on compliance.
- KPMG.
- Tips for confirming vendor legitimacy.
- Top companies hold huge edge in returns.
- China: recruiting easy, but success difficult.
- Costs, penalties may spur outsourcing.
- In quotes.
- Watson Wyatt Worldwide.
- Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation.
- Riding the Blue Train: A Leadership Plan for Explosive Growth.
- The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda.
- Conceptual framework, revenue recognition top FASAC priority list.
- What does the future hold, for finance and CFOs?
- Are your internal controls helping you?
- Managing the short term/long term tension: how small changes to traditional strategic planning processes can make a big difference.
- Delivering evidence: not just the mail; The FBI and state attorneys general usually get the credit for ferreting out financial fraud. But there's an elite unit that doesn't get much notice--and they work for the U.S. Postal Service.
- Preparing for new executive comp proxy disclosures: as companies prepare for added disclosure materials to comply with new SEC rules, Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) asked experts and preparers to share insights on data-gathering, resources required and in which areas to focus.
- To be or not to be ... in China: pursuing a China strategy is likely on the minds of every senior financial executive--with the lure of low-cost labor and 1 billion customers--yet despite the promise of great rewards, the reality is that every step in the process is fraught with great risk.
- High court gives clarity to litigation venues: in a key decision issued earlier this year, the Supreme Court has restricted the ability of plaintiffs' attorneys to shop for accommodating state venues for class action suits. Most must now be pursued in more predictable federal courts.
- Restricted stock: the case for total shareholder return; Companies that adopt market-based and performance-based vesting conditions under FAS 123(R) can better reward high-level employees and create shareholder value--without increasing accounting costs--say three professionals.
- The value proposition for executive coaching: could you or your direct reports use coaching? An executive search consultant reviews this popular leadership development tool and offers observations about its value for today's executives.
- Analytics: first step to effective treasury STP.
- Regulators taking open approach to 404 changes.
- Ask FERF about ... FELIX PC.
- BPM.
- Budgeting & forecasting.
- Compliance management.
- Financial controls.
- BPM software.
- Performance reporting.
- Events: celebrating FEI's 75th and Hall of Fame inductees.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Paul W. Chase.