Vol. 26 No. 3, April 2010
Index
- A mission for success.
- Will this spring be a season of budding optimism?
- Employers/employees align on reward priorities.
- VC investing at more than a decade low.
- Ten 'to-do's' for audit committees.
- Blue Ribbon Panel to assess accounting needs.
- Chief issues at shareholder meetings.
- Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility.
- How Did that Happen? Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way.
- Ignore Everybody--And 39 Other Keys to Creativity.
- Internal Revenue Service meets FIN 48.
- Educating owners on exit strategies.
- ERM after the financial cri$i$: questions that often keep business executives up at night might be more easily addressed with a strong corporate commitment to enterprise risk management practices.
- Discipline matters in optimizing the sale of a business: the economic recovery is slow and caution still dominates much decision much decision-making. But deal opportunities are on the rise, creating an improving market for companies with a business to divest.
- Protecting your company from troubled customers and suppliers: as the recession lingers, besides careful cashflow management and fiscal belt tightening, close monitoring of customer and supplier relationships and enacting protective measures have never been more critical.
- New ideas, better outcomes for health reform: big-ticket items such as Medicare spending, coverage of pre-existing conditions and caps on insurance premiums earned the lion's share of health-care reform attention. But advocates say innovations such as value-based payments, telemedicine and the "medical home" should have played a larger role in the national dialogue.
- Meet this fab four female finance leaders: talk about clarity, collaboration & decision-making in extraordinary times.
- Creating 'female-friendly' organizations: companies that actively seek talented women for key senior leadership roles are learning two important lessons: A higher proportion of women executives is good for the bottom line. And it can also contribute to a more male-friendly environment.
- The India imperative for the global corporation: for American companies searching for smart business investments abroad, India remains a powerful source of opportunity and potential financial success.
- Challenges in valuing retail store assets: for retailers in search of an accurate measure of fair value for their assets, there is no "one size fits all" approach. Different considerations may well be required. Here are three alternatives to consider.
- CPM and BI provide opportunities: the 2010 Gartner-FERF technology issues for Financial Executives survey provides a consistent picture of the chief financial officer's view of technology and presents an important opportunity for organizations to benchmark their own internal initiatives and perspectives to those of other finance organizations.
- Risk management in foreign exchange shouldn't be a foreign idea: carefully weighing operational risks and strategic options when going global can make all the difference between success and failure. Political, social and economic variables must be considered.
- Continuous controls monitoring can help deter and prevent fraud.
- Washington, D.C.--the nation's new financial center.
- FEI Canada 2010 conference in Victoria, British Columbia.
- FEI expresses concerns to administration officials.
- FEI's Washington State Chapter started off the new year with a stellar turnout.
- Crossword.
- Alicia Amaral.
- Andre Filion.
- Ann Marie Hansen.
- FEI member.
- Gene Skayne.
- Jacqueline Arthur.
- Jeff Hrehocik.
- Jeffrey Dawley.
- Kathryn Mills.
- Laurel MacKay-Lee.
- Manjeet Dhillon.
- Peter Castellanos.
- Peter Conrod.
- Philip Anderson.
- Ron Edmonds.
- Ryan Michaluk.
- Sean Byrne.
- Vincent Gallant.
- Melody Sherrill.