Vol. 22 No. 5, June 2006
Index
- When true value really isn't true and fair.
- From the editor.
- Costs to replace an employee.
- Grant Thornton's U.S. Business Leaders survey.
- Roundtable survey finds clear trends.
- Correction.
- Funding gains don't alter outlook: study.
- IPO market sags as M & A hits 5-year high.
- Robert Half International survey.
- In quotes.
- Independent contractor case sounds a loud warning.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers and Eurasia Group study.
- Two studies differ on F & A practices.
- Must-Win Battles: How to Win Them, Again and Again.
- The Ultimate Question: Driving Good Profits and True Growth.
- Six tips for buying or expanding a business.
- The explosion of accounting standards.
- Undoing Chapter 11: learning from the United Airlines deal; Gaining consensus for the deal to restructure United Airlines was not easy, with sacrifices from all its constituencies. With the airline finally pursuing its new path, the lead attorney and two partners who crafted the deal share some lessons learned.
- Turning up the noise on CSR: activist groups like the Rainforest Action Network have taken to the streets recently to protest corporate policies. At the same time, however, a nascent backlash movement is questioning companies about their "green" initiatives.
- On critical accounting issues, CFOs can add value: as audit committees' responsibilities and pressures grow, they are now looking to the CFO to help them understand the complex area of oversight of accounting judgments and estimates.
- Optimizing the business benefits from technology acquisitions: making intelligent technology purchases requires a vision, a long-term strategy and the knowledge that desired objectives are attainable. Smart companies--moving toward single data repositories across their enterprises--are doing things smarter, faster and better.
- It security, investment top CFO concerns: Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) analyzes the results of its eighth annual CFO technology issues survey.
- Ensuring financial leadership: one way to ensure a good pipeline of finance talent is to grow it internally. Here's what some large companies are doing to keep their finance staffs up do date--on much more than just accounting.
- Collaborative Cap-X process pays benefits: an integrated capital expenditure process allows a company to pool opportunities across business units and to utilize information from multiple stakeholders to realize enhanced benefits and streamline the data collection process.
- D & O for private companies: answers to common questions.
- Up and away with SOA: service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a current technology rage. Its goal is to make IT integration faster, more effective and cheaper, while using existing tools.
- Treasury's role in planning for the worst-case scenario.
- Buyers guide.
- Congress imposes new hurdles for contractors.
- Ask FERF about ... SEC Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies recommendations.
- KPMG.
- Movaris Inc.
- OpenPages.
- CrossTec Corp.
- Symantec Corp.
- Distinguished Service Award goes to Baker.
- Outstanding chapters saluted at Summit.
- Chapter focus: Central Florida.
- Crossword.
- Names in the news.
- Oni Chukwu.