Vol. 21 No. 7, September 2005
Index
- Current financial reporting issues: the must-attend event for preparers of corporate financial statements.
- From the editor.
- Accounting: trends affecting next generation of accountants.
- In quotes.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- Benefits: participant contribution timing needs scrutiny.
- Compliance; Poll: most won't find 404 burdens easing.
- Executive compensation best practices.
- Marsh.
- Compensation: investors troubled by corporate policies.
- Parson Consulting.
- Whistleblowing: group forms panel to define standards.
- Acorn Systems.
- Correction.
- Your career: presentation advice for boardroom success.
- In the Line of Fire: How to Handle Tough Questions ... When it Counts.
- Made in China: What Western Managers Can Learn from Trailblazing Chinese Entrepreneurs.
- The Forgotten Half of Change: Achieving Greater Creativity Through Changes in Perception.
- Big Accounting changes likely with release of ED on Business Combinations.
- Kurt Ramin to lead IASC XBRL efforts.
- SEC Chairman Cox: SEC role remains as Investor Advocate.
- Optimizing shareholder value with an effective harvest strategy.
- Considering leading practices: a panel of experts explores current practices in executive compensation.
- Expensing stock options: the rule is final; Or is it? Most companies following new accounting rules since June 15 have begun to expense stock options. But others--including private and smaller public companies--insist the struggle to reject or modify the accounting is not over.
- You've frozen your pension plan: now, the work really begins; Freezing a defined-benefit pension plan is not a 'done deal.' Rather, it requires a prompt and urgent top-to-bottom re-evaluation that includes asset allocation and investment strategy, making active engagement by corporate financial executives critical.
- Venture capital forecast: hot with a chance of storms; The venture capital market has come back strongly from its lows in 2001, but concerns linger over funding of startups, exit strategies for companies reluctant to go public and a surfeit of cash for generating realistic returns.
- Filling the GAP: doing "reverse mergers" into shell companies has become a major avenue for private companies seeking new capital, but established practices like PIPEs and mezzanine financing have their share of the action, too.
- C-suites gaining another member: increasingly, larger companies are naming a chief risk officer to oversee complex risk management strategies. Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) looks at this evolving role and who is filling it.
- The top ten mistakes in risk management.
- CFOs positioned to drive BI integration: two major CFO challenges--improving performance management and improving access to information--can be achieved through seven keys for creating value that link initiatives enterprisewide.
- Linking real estate and strategy to realize gains: a real estate advisor argues that most companies tend to manage real estate as a cost center and fail to recognize the importance of bringing together corporate strategy and the use of property assets.
- Foreign tax strategies can be boon to multinationals: opportunities abound for multinational companies to take advantage of low-tax foreign jurisdictions to structure tax-advantaged programs. A number of countries provide major incentives to locate within their borders.
- Performance management: enabling smarter business; BPM solutions involve a closed-loop planning process that synchronizes modeling, measurement, adaptation and results-driven re-modeling. While understanding this concept is easy, its effective application can be more challenging.
- Using technology to trim revenue and receivables leakage: progressive companies are using a combination of order-to-invoice quality and collections automation technologies to arrest this growing source of profit erosion.
- Ask FERF about ... Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
- Stormy weather ahead for government contractors.
- Risk management.
- Tax software.
- The American Jobs Creation Act.
- Compliance.
- Policy management.
- Fei national: about FEI's technical committees.
- CrossWord.
- Fei staff news: Suskavcevic named to association post.
- Strategic partners: Hyperion and IBM to join forces.
- Buyers guide.
- Names in the news.
- George Boyadjis.