Vol. 20 No. 1, January 2004
Index
- Financial performance reporting: striking a balance between transparency and simplicity.
- From the editor.
- Outside scrutiny focus of pay plans.
- Salary increases seen being trimmed in '04.
- Employers, employees fret over healthcare.
- Procurement directors warm to outsourcing.
- Workers cut back on 401(k) savings.
- Top workforce trends for the new year.
- Content management.
- Data management.
- Staffing management.
- BPM solutions.
- Contract management.
- Cost management.
- Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World.
- Stock Options & the New Rules of Corporate Accountability: Measuring, Managing and Rewarding Executive Performance.
- FEI CEO's top financial reporting issues for 2004.
- IASB's Sir David Tweedie 'optimistic' on convergence: International Accounting Standards Board Chairman Sir David Tweedie remains optimistic about convergence. Now, in the third year of his five-year term, he speaks with Financial Executive's Managing Editor Ellen M. Heffes about progress to date, sticking points and what he'd still like to see happen.
- Sarbanes-Oxley: an international perspective.
- Corporate reputations: don't give them something to talk about; observing the pummeling of many brands and reputations, smart companies are valuing their assets and designing programs to minimize negative fallout following a disaster--and reduce possibilities that one will occur.
- How a comprehensive IR program pays off: an investor relations veteran analyzes the advantages of taking a comprehensive and proactive approach to investor outreach.
- The perils of playing to quarterly expectations: focusing on the short term in order to please investors can be a destructive trap. Two consultants argue that longer-term goals for building value should set the agenda.
- Stock options: weighing the impact of bailouts; a survey by investment bank Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin examines trends in the use of option cancellations and repricings since the economic bubble burst.
- IT project bleeding cash? Consider pulling the plug: a consultant offers some proven signs for determining if a technology project is foundering and might be better off being canceled, even at the expense of the outlays already made.
- Audit committees step up: Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) interviews with audit committee members find that audit committees are more proactive than ever in governing their organizations--regardless of their company's size.
- Sarbanes-Oxley, section 404: from project to practice ... to best practice; in the governance and compliance arena, transitioning from 'best' to 'required' may occur faster than ever. Industry thought leaders advocate such an approach, and a number of companies have begun to set the bar.
- Asset-based lenders: choice for small firms?
- Getting worldly on going global.
- Nick Starritt Managing Director Sirota Consulting Europe.
- Peter Bendor-Samuel CEO, everest group.
- Stephen H. Rhinesmith, Ph.D Partner, CDR International.
- Ask FERF (financial executives research foundation) about ... Board Committee Charters.
- 2004 shaping up as a busy year.
- FEI and FEI Australia form partnership.
- Financial Executive wins another award.
- Marketing and communications, publications.
- NYSE-Sponsored FEI women's forum: 10 trends of 'Buzz'.
- Upcoming conferences.
- Veteran reflects.
- AK Stell Holding Corp.
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Business and Industry Executive Committee (BIEC).
- Andrew Corp.
- Applied Industrial Technologies Inc.
- Correction.
- Eastman Chemical Co.
- Ikon Office Solutions.
- New York Independent System Operator (NYISO).
- Regional winner in the Institute of Management Accountants Robert Half International's Financial Executives of the Year Award.
- Sitel Corp.
- Storage Technology Corp.
- Xcel Energy, Inc.
- Paul J. Siracusa.