Vol. 23 No. 9, November 2007
Index
- New winds blowing in worldwide capital markets.
- Editor's page.
- Distressed-debt mess boosts need for specialists.
- In quotes.
- Advice on mastering the 'behavioral' interview.
- Strategy officers create new challenge for CFOs.
- Executives gloomy on leadership pipeline.
- Little relief seen in medical claims costs.
- Survey finds 80% of companies victimized.
- Corporate Fraud: A Manager's Journey.
- The Point of the Deal: How to Negotiate When Yes Is Not Enough.
- UP: Influence, Power and the U Perspective: The Art of Getting What You Want.
- CIFR chair Robert Pozen: committee seeks more than just to reduce complexity.
- Preparing for and conducting a business valuation.
- If IFRS offer the answer, they sure raise a lot of questions: as SEC talk turns to actions--towards accepting one set of accounting standards worldwide--serious concerns for American regulators and U.S. GAAP-filing companies surface and need to be addressed.
- Think like private equity to enhance public company value: private equity has helped bring shareholder value back to the boardroom agenda, but public company executives don't need to watch from the sidelines. Here are six lessons learned from PE philosophy that public companies can apply.
- Controlling workers' compensation medical costs: with workers' compensation costs rising for more than six years, state legislatures are getting involved. Worker's compensation claims must be managed and controlled at the corporate level in order to lower costs.
- Political donations grow as governance issue: disclosure of corporate political contributions comes second only to climate change as an activist shareholder cause. As the next major U.S. election draws closer, the issue is certain to get more top management attention.
- Troubled situations challenge CFOs.
- Gain by understanding what motivates others: Consultant Lee Miller believes that executives can succeed more often at negotiation and persuasion if they make the effort to understand what really matters to those they want to influence.
- Advanced technologies: essential tools for today's CFOs; The CFO of a software company argues in favor of providing comprehensive tools so that CFOs can do their jobs as they are expected to.
- Using automated controls to ensure better, faster, cheaper audits: using technology that automates testing of internal controls ensures regulatory compliance and promotes operational excellence.
- In search of smarter capital.
- How will you cope in a clean-energy world? It's certainly not too early for finance executives to start thinking about the impact of renewable energy mandates, carbon taxes and other "green" energy initiatives. A consultant points out areas for serious attention.
- Message to our supporters.
- Alight Planning.
- CODA Group.
- Open Text™ Corp.
- 170 Systems.
- LogicManager.
- Congress continues to focus on tax-shelter activity.
- FEI technical committees.
- The New Jersey Chapter featured former Giants football star Bart Oates at its September meeting.
- Conference schedule.
- Eric Waller was promoted to Supervisor, Membership.
- Krista Sackman was promoted to Supervisor, Chapter Relations.
- Lisa Korzeniowski was promoted to Meeting Planner.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Lynn Atchison.