Vol. 24 No. 2, March 2008
Index
- Warning: U.S. GAAP likely headed for extinction.
- Editor's page.
- Most CapEx investments financed, survey finds.
- Old model is gone, but where's the new?
- Attorney urges companies to settle weak cases.
- New hurdle: who will buy candidate's home?
- Firms grow but acknowledge challenges.
- In quotes.
- Sacre bleu! Little Belgium scores big.
- The Complete Guide to Executive Compensation (revised and expanded edition).
- The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking.
- Value Merchants: Demonstrating and Documenting Superior Value in Business Markets.
- FAF proposed changes spur former FASB member comments.
- New FASB rules for acquisitions and valuation: 141R, 160.
- Reader comments.
- Will U.S. IPO swoon go global? While 2007 was a record-setting year for public stock offerings worldwide, the economic morass in the U.S. has created a far bleaker outlook for 2008. That's spurred some investors to consider alternative ways to go public.
- Companies lukewarm to e-proxy option.
- Risk management in isolation is risky: to avoid unintended consequences of their decisions, treasurers need to apply the same partner-with-the-business mentality for risk management as they do for other activities and not treat it as an isolated treasury function.
- Boosting the audit committee: financial executives, particularly CFOs, have a major part to play in improving the performance of a company's audit committee. That's especially true for improving processes, enabling relevant technology and defining key roles.
- The changing face of intellectual property: intellectual property--n. A product of the intellect that has commercial value, including copyrighted property such as literary or artistic works, and ideational property, such as patents, appellations of origin, business methods and industrial processes.
- Protecting your brand: fending off pirates.
- Ratings agencies Eye ERM for all industries.
- 7 actions for simplifying the planning cycle.
- Economic vetting, wall street setting.
- Like it or not fair value is here to stay: arguments aside, FAS 157 has been issued, and financial managers and audit committees need to focus on the challenges it poses and the benefits of achieving fair value accounting.
- Aligning finance + sales = more profits: effective sales compensation management drives both top- and bottom-line growth. Automation can help align sales behavior directly to corporate financial objectives for enhanced sales performance and increased profits.
- Areas to watch to avoid an IRS audit.
- BearingPoint Inc.
- Clarity Systems and EDGARfilings.
- Point & Ship Software Inc.
- AXS-One.
- Varicent Software.
- Christine DiFabio, CPA.
- Committee on Small and Mid-Sized Companies seeks members.
- Conference schedule.
- COT commends IRS on review.
- Diane Albergo.
- Michael Conway named FEI Canada President & CEO.
- Chapter focus: Rochester.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Evelyn Henry Miller.