278 Posts found for Source: CFO Publishing

Eager to focus on the things they do best, companies have turned to business process outsourcers for virtually everything else.

Content: Article | Author: Russ Banham | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Management, Outsourcing / BPO

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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

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Which raises the question: is there an optimal way to organize treasury operations globally?

Content: Article | Authors: Abe De Ramos, Ann Queree | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance

The billions of dollars that companies spend each year on services has become a potent lure — or perhaps one should say lifeline — for E- procurement vendors. With their stock prices flatlining, and with companies hesitant to spend money on big- ticket software, these vendors are retooling their products and their sales pitches, promising impressive ROI on systems that allow companies to procure everything … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Scott Leibs | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: IT / Technology / E-Business, Operations

“With the U.S. economy’s spectacular performance over the last decade, why bother with the political instability, the double-digit inflation, and the local currencies [of foreign markets] that can implode overnight? One reason: ‘That’s where the growth is,’ says Robert Gluck, vice president and treasurer of Bestfoods . . . Few U.S. companies, however, are chasing that growth. While strategic planners are willing to make large, … [ Read more ]

Content: Article | Author: Andrew Osterland | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, International

Companies are being pressured to eliminate classes of stock with supervoting rights.

Content: Article | Author: Andrew Osterland | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Finance | Industry: Investment Banking

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

What makes the difference between a good finance environment and a great one? We asked the Association for Financial Professionals and Hackett Benchmarking & Research to help us find out. CFO’s survey of more than 100 corporations reveals best practices for financial workplaces.

Content: Article | Authors: Alix Nyberg Stuart, Roy Harris | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Career, Finance

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

Applying Black-Scholes analysis to capital spending projects has one big flaw

Content: Article | Author: Ronald Fink | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance

Roger Fisher, renowned gray eminence of negotiation and co-author of the classic book Getting to Yes, says the prescription for negotiations applies to corporate mergers as well as international diplomacy.

Content: Article | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Negotiation

Finance education and training is the key to building any superior finance team. Whether it’s sending seasoned finance executives or even CFOs to professional development courses, creating custom finance training programs for nonfinance managers, or sending young hires to executive MBA programs, boosting the financial knowledge of the organization can have a direct impact on the bottom line. This month CFO.com separates the fact from … [ Read more ]

Content: Online Resource | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Education, Finance | Industry: Education / Training

Strategist Michael Porter tells why Japan’s economic sun has set, and how it can rise again.

Content: Article | Author: Edward Teach | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Economics, International – Asia

Increasingly, intangible knowledge assets are dwarfing the value of tangible book assets at many companies. But don’t ask for details. While corporate reports heap praise on various efforts to capitalize on knowledge, they fail to supply reliable, objective benchmarks for measuring the values a company gets from its patents, brands, trademarks, capital expenditures, and research-and-development programs.

To assist financial managers in grappling with knowledge assets, … [ Read more ]

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

Article discusses the potential resurgence of Six Sigma and its implications for the New Economy.

Content: Article | Author: Lisa Yoon | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Management, Operations