Vol. 20 No. 6, September 2004
Index
- Widening the gap: big GAAP vs. little GAAP.
- From the editor.
- Foreign exchange: rate risk not key investment criteria.
- Pensions: plan funding improved in 2003, study shows.
- Sarbanes-Oxley.
- Healthcare; Study: smaller firms trimming benefits.
- In quotes.
- Stock options: shares reserved pool raises key issues.
- WatsonWyatt.
- Human resources: tips for judging quality of training.
- Management: six stages of business oxymorons.
- Robert Half Management Resources.
- Treasury: sweep assets fell as rates declined.
- Auditing software.
- CPM software.
- Governance/compliance.
- Performance management.
- Risk management.
- Telecom management.
- Praise for column on auditing.
- A Bias for Action: How Effective Managers Harness Their Willpower, Achieve Results and Stop Wasting Time.
- The Audit Committee Handbook, Fourth Edition.
- The Good Corporate Citizen: A Practical Guide.
- Stepped-up rulemaking, enforcement: keeping SEC busy.
- Continuous monitoring, auditing needed for Sarbanes-Oxley.
- IRS revises Schedule M-3 for C corps.
- Moving BC into the corporate mainstream: business continuity is in flux--as an industry and profession--as it seeks to find its stature, status and funding in corporate America.
- Corporate culture: are boards of directors responsible? A panel of experts discusses the role of boards of directors in driving corporate culture.
- Funding products, not just ideas: venture capitalists are busy once again funneling money into new and growing companies--but with limits. 'We're not handing them the keys to the Porsche up front,' says one.
- Offshoring: and the winner is ... contrary to the recent spate of negative media coverage and political attacks against offshoring, a growing body of credible sources are speaking out about the upside for the U.S.--for both jobs and the economy.
- Finance and IT: a need to work together; While their roles are very different, CIOs and CFOs say that more than ever, they need to cooperate and plan together to cost-effectively deliver systems and applications that companies need to thrive.
- Don't ignore electronic due diligence: potential acquirers would do well to apply sophisticated electronic methods to quickly search email and other electronic data for lurking liabilities.
- In an era of full disclosure, what about cash? Given the ever-mounting investor interest in cash flows, companies should be making a concerted effort to provide such information in their quarterly earnings releases.
- IRS takes aim at compensation.
- Tax law changes are in the wind: a review of what's being considered in the wide-ranging Congressional package of business-law tax changes that could affect both domestic and international operations.
- Hyperion helps Bytemobile access success. A conversation with Randy Stevens.
- Is the time right for a sale-leaseback? The current state of the capital markets and an influx of capital have created a prime situation for such a transaction, writes a real estate finance expert.
- Pulling it all together: a new model, the enterprise data hub, can present a 'single source of truth' without disrupting existing business processes or requiring costly IT reinvestments.
- Jim Kelly.
- John Ware.
- Lynn Ledwith.
- The decade of the customer.
- Eyeing new investment fund rules: new SEC-driven rules react to market-timing and late trading practices, aiming to correct governance policies and address deficiencies.
- Who relies on spreadsheets? Too many: a survey finds a surprising inability of companies to reduce their dependence on spreadsheets as a primary means of controlling/accounting for treasury-related transactions that supported future actions or decisions.
- Featuring software solutions buyers guide.
- Ask FERF (financial executives research foundation) about ... recent regulatory highlights.
- Congress has much work to do.
- Andrej Suskavcevic.
- FERF names new chair.
- Financial Executive wins 2 more awards.
- Jim Eagen.
- Marcia Stevens.
- Technical committee profile: CPC.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Deena L. Soulon.
- Popping the China question: will the bubble burst or gently deflate?