FERF research by the numbers.

• Position: Financial Executives Research Foundation

One of the many benefits of FEI membership is access to free FERF research. Pdfs of FERF research may be downloaded under "Publications" at www.ferf.org. To help shape its research agenda, FERF tracks the number of downloads by title. There were more than 6,000 downloads of FERF research pdfs during the 12 months ended June 30, 2011.

Besides the downloads of pdfs, FERF also offers interactive on-line benchmarking tools, which can be found under "Products & Services" at www.ferf.org.

AuditFeeChecfc helps you benchmark your audit fees, audit hours and other audit information. It includes the 244 responses to the 207 7 Audit Fee Survey, and provides a series of filters, which allows you to customize a peer group against which you can benchmark by size, industry and company type. During FY 2011, more than 500 members have benchmarked their audit fees using AuditFeeCheck

PayCheck helps you benchmark your own base salary, annual bonus opportunity and long-term incentives with peers. Starting with more than 1,000 responses to the 207 7 Financial Executive Compensation Survey, it provides filters for title, industry, size, company type and company location. During FY 2011, more than 1,000 members have benchmarked their compensation using PayCheck.

FinanceFunctionCheck helps you benchmark your staffing and other finance...