Vol. 25 No. 4, May 2009
Index
- Ideas from FEI's New Jersey Chapter.
- IFRS reports.
- Trustee spotlight: Michael A. Simons.
- What's new in research? Emerging technologies.
- If you can't take the heat ...
- Same old is new again.
- Financial regulatory overhaul looming on the horizon.
- Tax audits expected to grow.
- Organizations searching for 'creative' cost reduction.
- Six steps to restructure GM.
- IFRS provides opportunity to transform functions.
- In quotes.
- Letters to the editor.
- Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else.
- The 100 Best Business Books of All Time: What They Say, How They Matter, and How They Can Help You.
- The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing.
- Legal considerations in the proposed transition to International Financial Reporting Standards.
- Starting or selling a business? Remember taxes.
- Baking ethics into company culture: learning from recent lapses of others, many organizations are making genuine efforts to create effective cultures of ethics. However, persistent missteps in this process continue to be seen.
- The tough game you have to play: offshoring is driving a structural change that is transforming cost structures, value chains and the skill needed to manage global firms While initially drawn to this services shift by labor cost, that's now just the "sideshow".
- Cash forecasting more challenging: accurately forecasting cash to meet a firm's demands in this economic climate--while keeping both investors and analysts at bay--has become challenging for many treasurers.
- Top 10 pricing mistakes most companies make.
- Looking beyond the headlines: there are job opportunities for financial executives who know where to look and are able to focus their skills on how they can help new employers with their problems.
- Whose job is corporate governance? U.S. corporations, their shareholders and the federal government are grappling over which entity should govern certain practices and procedures of businesses--corporate management, directors, investors or government laws and regulations.
- 'More intense' oversight creates an inflection point: in the wake of the financial crisis CFOs and senior management need to understand the sea change in governance to be responsive to the audit committees' need for greater vigilance and increased focus and intensity on the business and management of organizations.
- Recession proof your building: financial executives should implement no- and low-cost energy efficiency strategies to reduce energy costs, assess and manage risks in the area of building performance as well as employ appropriate maintenance strategies.
- Exchange offers can address maturing bond debt: with insufficient corporate cash to repay maturing debt-and few, if any, opportunities to issue new debt-many issuers are looking at exchange offers to capture some of the discount at which their debt might be traded or quoted.
- Building calm after the storm: getting pension plans back on track and keeping them there will require time, resources and--most importantly--organizational determination. Here's how.
- Improving risk management: process and culture.
- Business beware: president Obama's policy priorities.
- Using foreign exchange gains/losses to reduce costs.
- Financial close: times demand more automation.
- Private company 'Fly-in' hits 26 congressional offices.
- Crossword.
- Andre Filion.
- Barbara Anderson.
- Bryan M. Brooks.
- Carl Berquist.
- Daniel J. Riley.
- Debbie Lansford.
- FEI member.
- John A. Leitch.
- John A. M. Clarke.
- John Van de Pol.
- Kevin E. Flint.
- M. Alexis Dow.
- Matthew Keogh.
- Randolph Chambers.
- Scott Davison.
- Thomas J. Harrington.
- Todd Weintraub.
- David Springate.