Vol. 21 No. 1, January 2005
Index
- The value of values.
- From the editor.
- In quotes.
- Research: customer assessment efforts seen wanting.
- Venture capital investment in Europe.
- Grant Thornton survey.
- Pensions: European plans often falling short.
- Strategy: walking the walk isn't always easy.
- IT spending; Meta: new budgets aimed at efficiency.
- Managing: care and feeding of top performers.
- PwC.
- Computer hardware.
- Gartner Inc.
- XBRL.
- Content management.
- License management.
- Treasury.
- Other choices for cash management.
- Sarbanes-Oxley's unintended results.
- Failsafe Strategies: Profit and Grow from Risks that Others Avoid.
- Leadership and Governance from the Inside Out.
- Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change.
- FEI CEO's 2005 Top 10 Financial Reporting issues.
- Share-based payments rule is finalized, finally.
- FASAC priorities for coming year.
- Section 404 compliance: telling it like it is; It's 'showtime' for reporting on internal controls, and Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) asked some in corporate America, 'How's it going?' Here are a few tales from the trenches.
- 10 tips for protecting retirement plans from litigation.
- The pros and cons of going private: going private is not a panacea for an ailing public company, but there is no question that the downsides of being public, especially for a small company, may be bigger than ever.
- Top committee agendas: trust & accountability; Executive compensation ranks high on every list of issues dominating corporate boardrooms, and good compensation committees--concerned about public perceptions of pay programs--want to do the right thing.
- ERM: embracing a total risk model; Enterprise risk management (ERM) is fast joining the business lexicon for more and more companies as increasing regulatory, legislative or stock exchange rules demand that senior executives and corporate boards certify their knowledge of current and future risks and the programs in place for managing those risks.
- Information & insurance: the power of transparency; Now, even relatively small companies can access the data and analytical tools necessary to make better risk-retention, risk-transfer and risk-financing decisions.
- Ramping up communications to the buy side: given the reconfigured research community, public company CFOs need to re-learn how to most effectively communicate with institutional investors. An investor-relations expert provides some clues.
- The changing world of appraisals: globalization has had a major impact on appraisals, and so has the internet and the growing use of intellectual property as collateral. Borrowers need to be aware of these changes.
- Demystifying BPM: a chief technology officer answers a series of key questions about Business Performance Management systems.
- Herbert K. Parker.
- Leaky profit pipes.
- Richard B. Kelson.
- Vincent J. Rogusky.
- Buyers guide.
- The impact of electronification on the balance sheet.
- Tax reform and the President's second-term agenda.
- Ask FERF about ... outsourcing human-resource services.
- Technical committee profile: Committee on Corporate Finance.
- Aleksandra Slaski.
- Cross word.
- Hallia Baker.
- Jim Eagen.
- Krista Sackman.
- New! Careers in Motion.
- Sharon Gareau.
- Names in the news.
- James E. Friess.