Vol. 23 No. 7, September 2007
Index
- Ready for convergence?
- Chapter profile; In focus: FEI's Fort Wayne chapter.
- FERF, at your service: FELIX PC.
- How members learn from other members.
- Trustee spotlight: Dave Braden.
- Twin Cities golf outing will benefit FERF.
- Private equity: how long can the perfect storm last?
- Editor's page.
- 26th annual FEI® Current Financial Reporting Issues.
- Golf company CFO eyes private infusion.
- Guidelines offered on deferred comp rules.
- Financial fraud study shows patterns.
- Internal audit becoming standardized globally.
- Optimize key processes.
- In quotes.
- Japanese companies bracing for 'J-SOX'.
- Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition.
- Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration.
- What Were They Thinking? Unconventional Wisdom About Management.
- U.S. SMEs should consider commenting on IASB's proposal for SMEs.
- FEI members on SEC committee to 'improve financial reporting'.
- The family business: failing to plan is commonplace.
- Treasury benchmarking--what's getting in the way?
- Accounting without borders: has its time come? There's a lot more to International Financial Reporting Standards than simply accounting. As multinationals file in IFRS around the world and U.S. companies consider IFRS for the U.S., every aspect of the business will be affected. Here's what three leading global companies are thinking--and doing.
- West Coast rides the risk curve: venture capital firms in the West remain more willing to take a gamble on unproven companies or technologies, experts say. In Silicon Valley, "it's boring not to take a big swing," says one.
- Setting shareholder-focused performance targets: setting executive compensation targets has changed. The process now reflects the new environment of heightened shareholder activism, increased disclosure requirements and overall market skepticism.
- Tax considerations fan the private equity boom: amid much publicity and debate about the tax advantages of private equity funding, a U.K.-based attorney covers the basic tax issues and compares tax treatment in the U.S. with that in the U.K.
- Is the easy credit party over? From euphoria and record deal levels just a few months ago, the corporate loan and bond markets are suffering something like a whopping hangover. The days of "covenant-lite" have ended as investors are shunning riskier loans and demanding tougher terms.
- Coping with a 'culture of waiver': today, governmental agencies expect a company under investigation to broadly waive attorney-client or work-product protections. Without these protections, however, corporations can find themselves at an extreme disadvantage during litigation.
- Location alone can't retain today's workforce: as technology and demographics impact the competition for talent, top companies view workplace real estate from the perspective of not just what or where, but the design, amenities and flexibility it offers.
- Building value by paring environmental risk: investors will reward companies that act to prevent a rise in environmental liabilities and penalize those who don't, writes an environmental attorney.
- Electronic invoicing gains as adoption barriers fall.
- Your expertise is about to expire.
- A return to review of restatements.
- Business Objects.
- CFO Strategies Inc.
- Clarity Systems.
- Black Duck Software.
- Softrax Corp.
- Attendance soars at FEI Canada conference.
- Committee on Corporate Reporting (CCR).
- Committee on Finance and Information Technology (CFIT).
- A winner.
- Agenda set for conference on convergence.
- Committee on Government Business (CGB).
- Committee on Private Companies (CPC).
- Conference schedule.
- COSO.
- Small Public Company Task Force (SPCTF).
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Teri List.