Vol. 23 No. 4, May 2007
Index
- Reinforcing the "I" in FEI.
- Editor's page.
- Risk Modeling emerges for potential pandemics.
- SEC disclosure rules evoke concern.
- Most company programs seen inadequate.
- Top-line growth ranked No. 1 goal.
- Good to employees, good to shareholders.
- Governments can help piracy fight, companies say.
- In quotes.
- Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation.
- Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results.
- Strategic Corporate Finance: Applications in Valuation & Capital Structure.
- KPMG chief Flynn confronts 'the age of oversight'.
- Guarding against HR missteps that can trigger litigation.
- Hope is not a strategy for managing FX risk.
- Web-based learning gains more converts: log on and learn--that's a mantra more and more financial professionals have been repeating. Web-based tools make sense in many ways and many settings. But don't expect live learning to disappear soon.
- The calm before a storm? Funding levels have recovered strongly, and the Pension Protection Act has provided new certainty on key rules for plan sponsors. But accounting issues and volatility remain major concerns.
- Is your ethics program working? A business with strong ethical behavior enhances and preserves its reputation, inspires loyalty and advertises that it has its ethics message right. It also fosters an ethical culture within the organization.
- Have the new rules improved boards? There is a decidedly new tone in most U.S. boardrooms--and an enhanced seriousness and attention to details. Have the rules improved boards or merely added to directors' responsibilities and worries?
- How finance can help build a leadership infrastructure: enforcing quantitative rigor on human resource costs and objectives is a role suited for financial executives, and their participation in an infrastructure design and implementation can be highly valuable.
- How CFOs can contain rising audit costs: high audit costs could start to force smaller businesses to sacrifice fiscal health for compliance. Specialized CPA firms may offer lower-cost services than major accounting firms, says an executive at one such CPA firm.
- Tips on valuing international leasing transactions: due diligence and valuation have taken on even more importance in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley, and foreign lease deals present specific challenges, says a valuation expert.
- New use for an accepted process: in the fast-paced global economy, the stakes for understanding and managing corporate reputations are enormous. Enterprise risk management (ERM)--long accepted as a process for managing business risks--offers a holistic and systematic approach to managing such risk.
- Juggling the pros and cons of taking risks: two professional jugglers apply their skills to making the right decisions.
- Players need to work together to defeat complexity.
- Ask FERF about ... board of directors' compensation.
- Active Reasoning.
- Xactly Corp.
- QUMAS.
- Shadow Financial Services Corp.
- Transcepta LLC.
- Cangemi wins Lubin Legacy Award.
- Conference schedule.
- CPC subcommittee meets with FASB.
- Infogix joins FEI Strategic Partners Program.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Lisa McAlister.