Vol. 20 No. 5, July 2004
Index
- Shifting sands: the changing relationship between financial executives and auditors.
- From the editor.
- Companies can use their regulatory compliance procedures.
- Human resources: bad bosses are not a good thing.
- Leadership: 'authentic leadership' qualities described.
- Alliances: survey finds growing interest in alliances.
- In quotes.
- Innovation is key for manufacturing success.
- Insurance: terrorism coverage cost dip brings more buyers.
- 51 percent of executives surveyed.
- Human resources: program measurement lacking, Segal finds.
- Management: 'urgent' response saps productivity.
- Treasury: forecasting cash needs ups investment yields.
- 41% of respondents to a Hyperion survey.
- Paisley Consulting.
- Reval.
- Stellent Inc.
- White Birch Software Inc.
- Centage Corp.
- Global Software Inc.
- Sabrix Inc.
- 'All aboard' the XBRL train.
- Compliance Consortium formed.
- Managing different generations at work.
- Keeping data under lock & key: corporations are wrestling with the manifold issues raised by new privacy laws, including the costs, confusing rules and consumer wariness. Even those with dedicated privacy officers have their hands full.
- The perils of revenue recognition: there are few more troublesome areas in accounting. Recent actions against companies like Computer Associates and Lucent Technologies point out the continuing opportunities for fudging or outright fraud.
- The new CFO role: it's in the DNA; The finance function now plays an increasing role in key decisions related to the business model and configuration of the business portfolio. Indeed, a new survey confirms that today's CFO responsibilities are akin to those of the CEO.
- Mastering nitty-gritty leadership strategies.
- Developing leaders with 2020 vision: companies can develop deep, enduring bench strength by combining succession planning and leadership development to create a long-term process for managing the talent roster.
- Multi-tasking and focused: Mary Jo Green; As Mary Jo Green steps up as volunteer chair for FEI, it represents a change in leadership--placing a woman in the top role for only the second time in its 73-year history.
- Canadian chair Ed Brown aims for visibility, value, influence.
- FEI forum on finance & technology.
- Managing IT as a business: Gartner, Inc. predicts that through 2007, 65 percent of enterprises will grossly mismanage complexity and risk, stifling productivity and earnings, and inflating costs by at least 25 percent.
- Are we overloaded yet? Finding a balance; FASB the Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Nysenasdaq.
- Self-insured? There may be a better option: most major U.S. corporations use self-insurance, but 'tax insurance' may offer a better answer for risk avoidance and improve both balance sheet and income statement ratios.
- The CFO's great balancing act: as the traditional role of corporate cop gives way increasingly to one of strategic business partner, CFOs have more and more responsibilities with everything from compliance to IT to risk management and tracking costs and returns on investment.
- Re-visualization brings a company back to life: in an extended case study, the president of a turnaround firm reconstructs the rescue of a failing software company and its eventual return to health.
- Ask FERF (financial executives research foundation) about ... recent regulatory highlights.
- For U.S. contractors in Iraq, a legion of issues.
- Atul Vashistha.
- Douglas, Plotkin.
- Evolution of BPO--just where is it headed?
- John K. Halvey.
- FEI, French Institute sponsor joint event.
- Frank S. Capon: Canadian pioneer.
- FEI/Amazon.com Bookstore offers.
- Technical committee profile: CFIT; Committee on Finance and Information Technology.
- July/August 2004.
- Douglas Gingerella.
- George Tyson.
- H. Paulett Eberhart.
- James F. Palmer.
- John Bier.
- John Sweeney.
- Nick Cypress.
- Oscar Munoz.
- Philip J. Pacey.
- Randall L. Stephenson.
- Raymond Durham.
- Rick Lindner.
- Thomas Martin.
- Wilson W. Cheung.
- Anthony L. White.
- The euro: coming of age or coming apart?