Vol. 25 No. 8, October 2009
Index
- Regulatory reform, risk management rise.
- Compromise: always part of the solution.
- Through the years with the controller, then financial executive.
- Bank CFO pay and performance: mixed relationship.
- Economic integration from 'BRICS' companies.
- Canadian 'anti-hybrid' rules: review agreements by January 2010.
- Corporate taxes hurt workers' wages, says new report.
- 10 ways to reduce occupational fraud.
- Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity.
- The Marketing Accountability Imperative: A Roadmap to More Effective Marketing Spending.
- The Upside of the Downturn: Ten Management Strategies to Prevail in the Recession and Thrive in the Aftermath.
- Early feedback on adoption of IFRS for SMEs.
- Analyzing the Inc. 500 List.
- Improve collections get a 'new attitude': credit has become an important element in the business of doing business, yet in this economy many firms are struggling to pay bills, which is, in turn, causing havoc for the receiving firm's budgeting and cash-flow planning. Here's advice for getting paid faster, dealing with delinquent accounts and, if necessary, taking steps to enforce collection.
- An ounce of prevention more than a pound of cure: the national debate over health-care reform started out correctly focused on issues of spending, treatment and coverage. But it may have given short shrift to one area of potential cost containment that could produce enormous change: wellness and healthy living initiatives.
- On the hot seat with today's challenges: today's directors face more difficult challenges than did their cohorts of several years ago. And though calm seemingly had returned to board-rooms following the rash of business scandals earlier this decade, the financial crisis and its repercussions have again raised the question: "Where were the boards?".
- Treasury resiliency: emerging from the financial crisis.
- Common threads of startups for driving growth: interviewing top executives and studying more than 30 leading startup companies that have achieved growth in the U.S. and Europe--even in the downturn--has revealed growth strategies that can be applied in any company determined to look at itself from the outside and go beyond its traditional thinking.
- Financial reporting's eternal quest: what do users want/need?
- Building financial executive 'bench strength': some companies are increasing their commitments to succession planning--but many still have a long way to go when it comes to drafting a team of high-performing financial executives able to hit the ground running.
- Lessons in mortgage lending, Canadian-style: with the credit crisis easing and capital returning to U.S. financial institutions, a Canadian banking attorney offers some advice for American lenders and borrowers: learn to be boring.
- New attention on FCPA investigations: as the administration takes a more aggressive stance to police corporate America, financial executives doing business abroad need to know what steps to take to limit liability and ensure their firm is on the right side of the law.
- Competitive value of employee benefits.
- Considering HR outsourcing? Consider SaaS.
- Stimulus package: is it getting the job done?
- FEI Chicago Chapter female members form a 'SPA' group.
- Focus on 'hot' issues.
- Conference schedule.
- October 2009.
- Anne Lloyd.
- Catherine Allard.
- Dan Clarke.
- FEI.
- Gregory Kleffner.
- Harold R. Goss.
- Ian A. Rea.
- Ian Atacan.
- Jeff A. Swinoga.
- Jim Crawford.
- John Gerspach.
- Linster Fox.
- Mario D'Ambrosio.
- Michael Boychuk.
- Patrice M. Impey.
- Paul Belliveau.
- Peter Papagiannis.
- Vincent J. Gallant.
- Martin J. Silver.