FERF research by the numbers.

• Position: Financial Executives Research Foundation - Brief article

One of the many benefits of FEI membership is access to free FERF research. Pdfs of FERF research may be downloaded under "Publications" at ferf.org. To help shape its research agenda, FERF tracks the number of downloads by title. There were more than 5,000 downloads of FERF research pdfs during the 12 months ended June 30, 2012.

The most popular titles downloaded during FY 2012:

380 downloads

2012 Financial Executive Compensation Survey

340 downloads

2011 Audit Fee Survey

335 downloads

2012 Benchmarking the Finance Function Survey

In addition to downloads of pdfs, FERF also offers interactive online benchmarking tools, which can be found under "Products & Services" at ferf.org.

AuditFeeCheck helps financial executives benchmark audit fees, audit hours and other audit information. It includes the 277 responses to the 2012 Audit Fee Survey, and provides a series of filters, which allows customization to a peer group against which users can benchmark by size, industry and company type. During FY 2012, more than 400 members have benchmarked their audit fees using AuditFeeCheck.

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