278 Posts found for Source: CFO Publishing

Former SEC chairman

Content: Thought Leader | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Management | Industry: Finance / Banking

The SEC put much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into effect by passing a slew of new rules. Here’s what was proposed and what was disposed.

Content: Article | Author: Tim Reason | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Finance

University of Chicago-educated lawyer who is currently editor of The Corporate Library, an online repository for corporate-governance information, and former general counsel and president (alongside founder, governance activist, and longtime collaborator Robert Monks) of Institutional Shareholder Services

Content: Thought Leader | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Management

Federal Reserve Board chairman from 1979 to 1987 and current head og the Oversight Board of the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC)

Content: Thought Leader | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Management | Industry: Finance / Banking

How does your company stack up against competitors in key financial measures? Which internal processes need improving? With CFO PeerMetrix, it’s easy to find out how your finance function is functioning. Our database of more than 7,000 publicly traded companies lets you compare and contrast with the click of a button. Create custom scorecards, see industry averages, and benchmark crucial gauges including management, working capital, … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Free Stuff / Tools

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Vendors continue to tout business intelligence as the next big thing in corporate computing. And in fact, sales of BI products rose to nearly $4 billion last year — and could hit $6 billion by 2005.

But while the virtues of BI tools are plenty (including huge ROI numbers), big-bang rollouts of the software may be a mistake. Indeed, some business intelligence vendors say the smart … [ Read more ]

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

Critics say current accounting lets companies distort the picture they present of pension plan performance.

Content: Article | Author: Joseph McCafferty | 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

Travel and entertainment (T&E) is second only to payroll as the largest area of discretionary expense in a corporate budget. As travel costs continue to climb, this special report examines what CFOs and other finance managers can do to bring these expenditures back down to earth. In the report you’ll find links to articles and a Web directory of associations, consultants, and T&E providers, as … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Management

Budgeting software isn’t the key to corporate finance reform, but it can help CFOs manage expectations in a sinking economy.

This buyer’s guide will explain how some CFOs cope under the added stress of Sarbanes, in addition to provide a list of vendors for 2002 B&P software.

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

To help CFOs get a better sense of which next-gen technologies are true landscape-shakers, CFO.com spoke to a slew of experts. The list of gurus included IT consultants, futurists, and tech-savvy CFOs. The question asked: name the innovations that will have the biggest impact on business over the next five years.

What they said was intriguing. Tech spending may be dormant right now, but tech innovation … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Trends / Analysis

Not sure how your finance department stacks up? Here are ten markers of mediocrity.

Content: Article | Author: Marie Leone | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Management

The gap between the numbers reported to shareholders and to the taxman is growing. Critics contend it’s time to explain why.

Content: Article | Author: Tim Reason | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Accounting, Finance

The launch of electronic trade finance services could make oceans of paperwork disappear.

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

Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That’s why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game. Plus: Finance executives sound off about audit committees in a new CFO survey.

Content: Article | Author: Andrew Osterland | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Corporate Governance

Despite a torrent of interest in ROI, truly workable solutions are just beginning to emerge.

See also: Numbers, Please
(“We asked CFOs how they view IT. Their answer: Very carefully.”)
Content: Article | Author: Norm Alster | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, IT / Technology / E-Business

Can U.S. regulators improve corporate governance at home by looking overseas?

Content: Article | Author: Craig Schneider | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Corporate Governance

The market’s distaste for complex financing could raise your company’s cost of capital, even if you comply with new reporting rules.

Content: Article | Author: Tim Reason | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance

Much of what happened in the 1990s also happened in the 1980s. Here’s hoping we don’t do it again.

Editor’s Note: Also includes an interesting historical timeline of selected relevant events starting in 1984.

Content: Article | Author: Julia Homer | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, History