Vol. 19 No. 5, July 2003
Index
- When crisis meets opportunity.
- From the editor.
- Save the applause for ethical CFOs.
- Global CEO turnover at record highs.
- Roles central to directors' pay.
- Are companies unwittingly supporting terrorism?
- Canadians get guidance on MD&A disclosure.
- Mid-sized firms report sizable pension woes.
- Simple or not, W-4s can prove painful.
- Payments software.
- Risk management.
- Travel management.
- Contract management.
- Document management.
- Accounting's cure: shifting focus--from lenders to shareholders.
- Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap.
- Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them.
- Monster's founder eyes the future.
- EPLI squeeze higher costs, lesser coverage: employment practices liability coverage is becoming scarcer and more costly, so risk managers may need to shop around and identify potential gaps.
- Stealing trade secrets will U.S. crack down?
- Communicate value to boost investor confidence: creating a systematic approach for measuring and disclosing the value of a company's intangibles will go a long way in re-establishing confidence.
- Rethinking the leadership agenda: while business has moved to a new level of complexity, many leaders remain stuck in the past. With leadership more crucial than ever, a radically different set of competencies is required.
- Accounting board's chief auditor speaks out: In an interview, Douglas R. Carmichael, chief auditor for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, talks about the board and the tasks ahead.
- How FEI governs itself.
- Canada's new chair plans to focus on ethics.
- Integration strategy key to margin management: new methodologies allow companies to take a systematic approach to improving profitability without having to undertake a massive transformation.
- Internal control matters...again: Motorola's senior vice president and controller tells Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) how "COSO" recommendations--published a decade ago--helped his firm improve its system.
- Getting more from an ERP investment: A financial analytics application can make a huge difference in justifying the expense of an ERP system and improving the ROI, as well as the value of information to users.
- How transparent do you need to be? here's what it takes to make others see your company's value.
- People programs pay off: understanding workforce optimization is no longer a luxury--it is essential to attract and keep the best talent that will, in turn, improve a company's bottom line.
- Creating value through cash savings.
- Ask FERF (Financial Executives Research Foundation) about...COSO resources.
- Congressional tax agenda: busy and fluid.
- RBC Financial Group.
- Three chapters get achievement awards.
- Events.
- FEI's Conference Department.
- Broadgate Capital Advisors (BCA).
- Cisco Systems Inc.
- Hilb, Rogal & Hamilton.
- Knight Trading Group Inc.
- Liberate Techonologies.
- National Diversified Sales Inc.
- Operations of Catalina Marketing Research Solutions.
- RSM EquiCo.
- Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.
- Paul Mason.