Vol. 27 No. 7, September 2011
Index
- FEI Twin Cities hosts annual golf tournament.
- FERF partners in Chapter Academic Awards program.
- FERF research by the numbers.
- Trustee spotlight: Valerie Reardon.
- Searching for fiscal sanity in a time of uncertainty.
- Drama - a negative and a positive.
- Do companies chase growth at the expense of success?
- The votes are in on 'say on pay' in 2011.
- Executive moves not always about $$$.
- Fixing the Game: Bubbles, Crashes, and What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL.
- Many UK companies slow preparing for Bribery Act.
- Five new trends in housing.
- IFRS convergence or divergence? Updating the MoU projects.
- The company.
- Congressional partisanship: deja vu all over again?
- Business climate update: ahead of his appearance at FEI's Washington policy conference Sept. 26-27, Fred Malek shares his thinking on some of the pressing business issues of the day with Financial Executive's Editor-in-Chief Ellen M. Heffes.
- Should the US adopt IFRS? The question isn't whether global accounting standards are better than U.S. GAAP or vice versa, but whether U.S. investors and domestic companies should be forced to drive on the other side of the road from the rest of the world.
- What matters most: companies can prosper and grow in a time of constant change. Beating the odds lies in managing organizational health with the same rigor and discipline as financial performance.
- Lost your Job? What's next: loss of a high-level position, though never easy, can provide a unique opportunity for the financial executive to explore different options--and perhaps pave a new path, one that results in a smooth transition.
- Finance + tech: exponential capabilities enabled by technology: from abacus to analytics, scribe to strategic partner, the bond between finance and technology has evolved--particularly over the past 80 years--to create an inextricable link that has enabled vast improvements and raised the game to a whole new level.
- Taxes: compliance more complex than ever: recent tax code laws implemented around the nation are increasingly complicated, unpredictable and costly when misunderstood. Financial executives can confidently and cost-effectively achieve business tax compliance--regardless of the changes.
- Strategies to protect against global uncertainty: structuring a proper foreign exchange hedging strategy can shield global corporate assets from market volatility, improving the bottom line of any company exposed to FX risk.
- For FEI Canada's new chair: a time of challenge, opportunity: when he attended his first FEI Canada meeting more than a decade ago, Ray Hawrelak's objectives were pretty straightforward - meet fellow financial executives, share a few managerial anecdotes and professional insights, maybe collect a business card or two.
- Best practices for leak-free communication: highly publicized leaks of sensitive documents have brought attention to the importance of an issue that can lead to business and reputational loss as well as government penalties. Protecting sensitive organizational data--whether internal or shared--is a serious concern. But there are solution.
- How banks analyze a business to interpret its cash position.
- For cloud strategy: the network is key.
- Did manufacturing ever leave the US? And how do we get it back?
- What FEI members say about deterring financial reporting fraud.
- FERF announces new research.
- Dave Huber's background in accounting and finance prepared him well for his current role, but it's his "Jersey-guy" roots and varied recreational and cultural interests that keep him grounded outside of the office.