Vol. 26 No. 5, June 2010
Index
- Business forecast: flurries--even in June!(president's page) (Financial Executives International) (Conference news)
- Is taxing to fund government 'largeness' short-term thinking?
- Are CFOs growing more optimistic?
- Incentive plans still changing.
- Cost of compliance top concern in reforms.
- In quotes.
- Surplus real estate raises costs.
- FASB, PCAOB fee increases 'astounding,' says member.
- Avoid mistakes selling in a recession.
- Business leaders resigned to turbulent economic future.
- Convergence with whom? The shift to the 'investor model' of accounting.
- Is IFRS for SMEs for your company?
- It's a great time to be CFO.
- Honing a talent for retaining talent: smart chief financial officers understand the real cost of losing talented people in a recession and having to recruit them again. Knowing that more than numbers affect the bottom line is a key ingredient of their business's success.
- Financial executives and CSR: organizations are acknowledging that corporate social responsibility is more than simply "warm and fuzzy," and they're increasingly seing the value in trust as an essential line of business. Being a good corporate citizen is an important reputation factor.
- Finance can help in planning for volatility: whether robust recovery or recessionary relapse, the decade ahead provides an opportunity for CFOs and finance organizations to bring much-needed rigor planning and forecasting process.
- Are U.S. Taxes causing a global disadvantage?
- Paying for excess the enduring battle over executive compensation: in the fallout from the financial crisis, a time of enormous government bailouts and burning controversy over huge corporate salaries and bonuses, the topic of executive compensation has never been more hotly debated.
- Best practices in business process outsourcing: outsourcing is gaining center stage in the strategic agenda of the CFO. But as companies go down the path of adopting outsourcing--either transactional or core business processes--they have to be mindful of a few tenents to ensure success of their program.
- Setting the audit committee agenda: meeting financial challenges with smart, pointed solutions should be job one for any audit committee. Here are 10 recommendations to make sure the process goes as smoothly as possible and leaves less to chance.
- Global capital flow creates opportunities: from their vantage point, financial executives can move beyond detached analysis of the creative ideas of others and apply their knowledge of capital flows to building innovative strategies of their own.
- Current issues in accounting for business combinations: as the numbers of mergers and acquisitions contine to rise, so too, do the valuation and accounting challenges--particularly in light of changing rules.
- Betting versus enterprise risk management.
- Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.
- Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal.
- Survey says treasury climate calmer, but still challenging.
- Technology trends CFOs must know.
- New regulations could bog down federal agencies.
- Committee on private companies.
- Conference schedule.
- New! Report on M&A Plans released.
- Washington Policy Conference.
- 2010 leadership summit.
- June 2010.
- Alexandre Couillard.
- Atif Ansari.
- Charles H. Noski.
- Charles Henaire.
- David Morris.
- Edward Jonasson.
- Karen McBride.
- Karim Jamal.
- Kenneth Kosolofski.
- Lisa McAlister.
- Neil Roberston.
- Ron Zoromski.
- William Anderson Bishop.
- William M. Trust.
- Dan Thomas.