Vol. 23 No. 3, April - April 2007
Index
- Public policy sanity check.
- Editor's page.
- Companies consolidating cash management providers.
- When they say it's about pay, it's true.
- Correction.
- Getting investment advice from 'Dad'.
- Growing complexity hampers Manufacturing companies.
- Thoughts on minimizing option risk.
- Doing better at M&A.
- In quotes.
- Will 'clawback' efforts against ex-CEOs roil D&O market?
- Job moves account for just half of CFO turnover.
- Capitalize on Your Success: The Ultimate Guide to Getting the Money, Growing the Business and Doing the Deal.
- The Road to Organic Growth: How Great Companies Consistently Grow Market Share from Within.
- The Three Tensions: Winning the Struggle to Perform without Compromise.
- XBRL gets a boost from FAF.
- FEI responds to SEC and PCAOB Section 404 guidance.
- Three 401(k) plan risks every company fiduciary should know.
- Loans for the asking: fueled by record liquidity and amped-up deal activity, financing is hitting new records. Lenders are so eager that some deals are being done without covenants.
- Global service providers outsourcing's next wave: going beyond outsourcing to merely lower costs, today's leading companies are using "global sourcing" to drive new forms of revenue and create top-line growth. What value are they obtaining, and how are they doing it?
- Building resiliency: businesses plan for all types of scenarios--busy season, slow season, economic slowdowns, etc.--but what are the unique characteristics of the business of sports, where the key ingredient, talent, is somewhat unpredictable? Financial Executive and Financial Executives Research Foundation asked several involved in the business how they manage.
- Change agent the Agile CFO.
- Self-organization makes for smart managing: a few pioneers like American Express and Southwest Airlines have adopted a new system of budgeting and decision-making that eschews top-down finance controls. Instead, it recognizes the efficacy of empowering the rank-and-file and stressing flexibility.
- Keeping the sale of your private company on track: M&A is expected to keep growing, and mitigating problems during a deal often defaults to the CFO. Here are some common mistakes that can derail a good deal.
- Turning diversity into a competitive advantage: the CEO of a Latino finance and accounting group talks about why diversity is important and what it takes to achieve it and leverage it for success.
- Break-in break-out: a simple guide to fraud, deadheading and making a fortune.
- Seeking elusive ROI for software projects: return on software investments is complicated by different definitions of ROI, by "hard" and "soft" returns and by difficult measurements. But it's a calculation that should be done frequently.
- In search of true work/life balance: in order to consistently attain work/life balance, we must change our work ethic and corporate culture through education, acceptance, communication and accountability.
- The idea of an artists.
- Corporate tax governance for CFOs: a practical approach: CFOs don't have to be tax experts, but they do need a basic understanding of the income tax process and the corporate tax structure required to manage and report their company's global income taxes--quickly and accurately.
- Forensics, skeptics and politics.
- Ask FERF about ... The Real Cost of Wireless Mobility.
- GRC management.
- GRC management.
- XBRL.
- Document management.
- Financial reporting.
- Stock plan administration.
- Committee on Benefits Finance (CBF): staff liaison: Serena Davila.
- Committee on Corporate Finance (CCF): staff liaison: Mark Prysock.
- Committee on Corporate Reporting (CCR) staff liaison: Christine DiFabio.
- Sacramento chapter inaugurated.
- Committee on Government Business (CGB): staff liaison: Mark Prysock.
- Committee on Private Companies (CPC): staff liaison: Serena Davila.
- Committee on Taxation (COT): staff liaison: Mark Prysock.
- Small Public Company Task Force (SPCTF): staff liaison: Serena Davila.
- April.
- Acme Packet Inc.
- Apollo Group Inc.
- Aptuit Inc.
- CFO for Titan Worldwide LLC, in New York City.
- CFO of Perkins+Will in Chicago.
- CFO of Wi-LAN, in Ottawa, Ontario.
- Colleen Cunningham, CPA (New Jersey Chapter).
- Digital Angel Corp.
- Eaton Corp.
- FedEx Corp.
- Finalist in the Non-Services Businesses category in the 3rd Annual Stevie Awards.
- New Brunswick Scientific Co. Inc.
- Northrop Grumman Corp.
- Nova Biosource Fuels Inc.
- Robert Tormey, CPA.
- Mark A. Paul.