Vol. 24 No. 4, May - May 2008
Index
- Assessment: the key to good boards.
- Delivering financial research to every member.
- FERF's Chapter Challenge Program.
- The Deloitte scholarship fund.
- Trustee spotlight: Marsha L. Hunt.
- Why donate to FERF? Chapter leader testimonials.
- Risks, wagering and financial markets.
- Editor's page.
- FCPA survey finds hike in probes, prosecutions.
- Tech CFOs voice support for compensation votes.
- More big companies agree to disclose political spending.
- Survey finds dissatisfaction with exchange listings.
- In quotes.
- SaaS gains, but customers want more.
- Women in management: new opportunities sought.
- Followership: How Followers are Creating Change and Changing Leaders.
- Pension Dumping: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street.
- Global accounting firm CEOs on challenges--transitioning from GAAP to IFRS, and more.
- New Accounting Standards impact financial statements.
- Are your internal controls sufficient? Companies have made Herculean efforts to improve their internal controls to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404, but the improvements sometimes go wanting. Some believe a lapse of a Societe Generale magnitude could happen in thousands of other companies.
- Uncertain economy provides opportunity: the current environment is the perfect time to position your company for growth when the economy improves. And, CFOs are best positioned to lead this charge forward, say these consultants from Grant Thornton.
- Hotlines helpful for blowing the whistle: required for public companies under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate hotlines for whistleblowers have become a big weapon against fraud--more effective than internal audits. Yet, research shows that companies may not deem them highly effective.
- Considering listing on AIM? Consider risks & rewards: London's Alternative Investment Market has been successful in drawing companies, with more than 1,680 currently listed. U.S. companies seeking escape from the more restrictive and regulated U.S. exchanges need to scrutinize both the pros and cons of an AIM listing.
- Lessons from the abyss: the credit market meltdown and risk management; As the subprime mortgage malaise and related woes continue to roil the credit markets, issues of risk management and regulation are getting new attention. Hard lessons will be learned, many of which are just now beginning to be understood.
- XBRL: not just for external reporting; If you think XBRL is just for financial reporting by public companies to the SEC, think again. XBRL promises to be for business reporting what the Universal Product Code (UPC) has become for retailers--a means of standardizing, managing and simplifying processes.
- Cash advance providers ride to the credit rescue: when banks are unwilling or unable to provide the funding that small to mid-sized business owners need, cash advances can provide a lifeline by providing capital against future credit card receivables.
- From crunching numbers to counting human capital: "manage what you measure" holds true as organizations compete for talent amid a shrinking workforce. Those that develop measures for assessing their human capital can better manage and value what they have.
- Top 10 enterprise risk management myths: an executive at a governance and risk technology firm offers a primer on how companies should view enterprise risk, especially from a systems standpoint.
- APEX Analytix.
- IQ BackOffice.
- TriCipher.
- Oversight Systems Inc.
- SYSPRO and Centage Corp.
- The presidential candidates on healthcare and taxes.
- Managing FX risk from the bottom up.
- Committee on Benefits Finance.
- Committee on Government Business.
- Committee on Small and Mid-Sized Public Companies.
- Committee on Tax.
- Conference schedule.
- Duff & Phelps joins FEI Strategic Partner program.
- FEI Financial Reporting blog 'Smart Web Stop'.
- Matt Miller.
- Patricia Gordon.
- Chapter focus: Arizona.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Christopher Niezgodzki.