17 Posts found for Author: Kris Frieswick

How much do chief executives know about company finances? CFO Magazine asked more than 300 CFOs to rate their boss’s finance IQ.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance

More companies are using personality tests to assess job candidates and develop new hires.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Human Resources

Being CFO on the target end of a deal brings challenges — like having to coach “redundant” staffers.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance

The only thing that will make the furor over offshoring worse is hiding from it.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Outsourcing / BPO

Auditors face more pressure to find fraud.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Accounting, Finance

An ESOP is a retirement plan. No, it’s an ownership investment. Wait – it’s neither one.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance

Disillusioned investors are demanding stronger links between executive pay and long-term performance.

Editor’s Note: for a related, though more topical piece, see
The CEO Trap
Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Finance

Companies have walled off valuable assets in subsidiaries for decades. Are those walls starting to crack?

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Legal

Baruch Lev want companies to come clean on missed estimates.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Accounting, Finance

Polaroid’s passage through Chapter 11 exposes how bankruptcy can give debtors too much power.

Editor’s Note: A very interesting high-level look at an important issue, bankruptcy, that many of us who have never been through probably know little about.

Follow-up: read more good CFO articles relating to bankrupcy…
Second Acts
Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Legal

Coping with the bear market in directors’ and officers’ liability insurance.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Corporate Governance

Scenarios are useful not for predicting the future (which can’t be done) but for helping companies become more aware of possible outcomes.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Best Practices, Strategy

Many new software applications combine budgeting, forecasting, analytics, business intelligence, and collaboration. About the only thing this software can’t do is make employees use it.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, IT / Technology / E-Business

Attempts to gauge the ROI of advertising hinge on determining a brand’s overall value.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Marketing / Sales

Severance packages are growing more generous as companies position themselves for a recovery.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Human Resources

Tough “360” reviews and employee ranking are gaining fans. Competency-based performance management is the backbone of most of the alternative approaches.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Human Resources, Management

With stock prices down, poorly performing companies are more vulnerable to hostile takeovers. So it comes as little surprise that an increasing number are popping poison pills, a familiar takeover defense mechanism. What is surprising are the terms of some of the latest deals.

Content: Article | Author: Kris Frieswick | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance | Industry: Investment Banking