Vol. 23 No. 5, June 2007
Index
- Competitiveness, complexity and financial executives ... intertwined.
- Editor's page.
- Software deals are hot.
- The evolving role of internal auditors.
- Test case looms on backdating.
- The 10 things every board must get right.
- Correction.
- In quotes.
- Why VCs go to PCs.
- Will house vote affect executive pay?
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High.
- Unstoppable: Finding the Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth.
- What Really Matters: Service Leadership, People and Values.
- Materiality from a different point of view.
- Financial reporting complexity: FEI's four-point plan.
- Should you care about the IAASB Clarity Project?
- Lawrence W. Smith named to FASB.
- Retaining skilled, trained workers.
- Corporate treasury trends: staffing & technology.
- Soul-searching over U.S. competitiveness: much attention and hand-wringing have come over U.S. capital markets' perceived loss of stature. Committees are studying the issue and considering change, but the evidence of a swoon is far from conclusive.
- Banking gets greener: not that long ago, banks were minor actors on the climate-change stage. Now, they are stepping up with major commitments and far-reaching goals.
- Will tech deals impact your decision-making? As record-setting tech company M & A continues, the resulting consolidation of IT companies is sure to impact CFO decision-making. Will it help or hinder?
- CFO skillsets changing ... again: with CFO turnover still near record levels, Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) asked some in the executive search business to discuss the trends and what they are looking for in senior financial executive recruits.
- BPO: developing market, evolving strategies; Business process outsourcing, or BPO, continues to gain customers, and much of it is being done offshore. Human resources is still the biggest area, with finance and accounting and procurement trying to find more traction.
- Derivative wars: a battle has been brewing on the accounting for derivatives--pitting corporate America's finance executives against regulators/standard-setters. The growth of standardized, exchange-traded derivative contracts is causing a greater sense of urgency for resolution.
- Changing the focus: product to profitability; Companies doing an initial public offering need to know more than just what the rules are for public companies. Employees need to understand how being public changes the vision, financial goals and responsibilities they now share.
- Captives: boon for the middle market; Not that long ago, captive insurance only made sense for huge corporations. New IRS rulings, however, have allowed captives to serve as profit centers for mid-sized companies.
- Major tax issues confront 110th Congress.
- Ask FERF about ... draft IFRS for SMEs.
- Adaptive Planning.
- Cartesis.
- PrimeRevenue Inc.
- Click 4 Compliance LLC.
- iDashboards.
- 2007 Distinguished Service Awards go to 3 FEI members.
- Committee on Private Companies (CPC).
- Committee on Taxation (COT).
- Conference schedule.
- Just in: CFRI speakers.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Paul Hensley.