Two Views of Virtue
Corporate social responsibility (CSR), the idea that companies have obligations not just to their investors but also to their stakeholders, society, and the environment, is hot. What does the sound and fury over CSR signify? Does it truly herald a sea-change in corporate priorities? Two experts, Steven D. Lydenberg and David Vogel, who published books on the subject in 2005 offer very different answers to … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Edward Teach | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Flabby or Fit? A Survey of CFO Readers Measures Finance Departments
IPO Market 2005
M&A Statistics
Is This Any Way to Run a Railroad?
You think you’ve got problems? Amtrak’s got an overpaid workforce. Its trains and tracks are falling apart. Worse, the carrier’s balance sheet is a flat-out mess.
Content: Case Study | Author: John Goff | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Industry Specific | Industry: Transportation | Company: Amtrak
Motivating the Middle
How to reward the best without alienating the rest.
Content: Article | Author: Alix Nyberg Stuart | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Human Resources
Building a Better Workforce
What technology can (and can’t) do to help companies optimize their most valuable asset.
Content: Article | Author: Scott Leibs | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Human Resources
Secrets of the M&A Masters
From discussions with finance chiefs and business-development heads at six frequent acquirers – Dover, Wells Fargo, Charles River Laboratories, VF, Clear Channel Communications, and CRA International – CFO magazine distilled the following advice. Their hard-won lessons can cut through the clutter of acquisition statistics and theory and serve as practical deal-making guidelines. Call them the secrets of the M&A masters.
Content: Article | Author: Kate O’Sullivan | Source: CFO Publishing
Spend or Cut?
Nathaniel Mass has devised a metric to help finance executives make more-informed spend-or-cut decisions. Known as the relative value of growth (or RVG), the metric compares the amount of shareholder value a company creates through revenue growth with that generated by margin improvement. In theory, this helps managers align their decisions more closely with investor expectations and create more shareholder value.
Content: Article | Author: Marie Leone | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance
A GAAP of Their Own
Private companies seeking a wholesale exemption from FASB’s accounting rules are likely to be disappointed.
Content: Article | Author: Alix Nyberg Stuart | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Accounting, Finance
What Does Your CEO Really Know?
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
Nonprofit Activity Swells
Size of IPO Deals Heading Up
Worldwide spending on Software as a Service
Capital Ideas: Back to the Future of Valuation
The inventor of a new valuation model claims to have a roadmap for value creation that includes signposts on how to set, track, and meet growth goals.
Content: Article | Author: Marie Leone | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance
Kremed!
The rise and fall of Krispy Kreme is a cautionary tale of ambition, greed, and inexperience.
Content: Case Study | Author: Kate O’Sullivan | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance | Company: Krispy Kreme
Keeping Secrets
How five CFOs cooked the books at HealthSouth.
Content: Case Study | Author: Alix Nyberg Stuart | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance | Company: HealthSouth
Value of Securitized Trade Receivables
Not by the Numbers
While finance chiefs do seek tangible results from executive education programs, they don’t like measuring their effects in terms of ROI.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Lisa Yoon | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Executive Programs
CFO Magazine – Human Capital Special Issue
With the problem of human-capital cost hikes reaching critical proportions, CFO devotes an entire issue to health care, retirement plans, IT/outsourcing, and perks.
Editor’s Note: topical and US-centric, but of value to those who care about these things…
Content: Article | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Human Resources, Outsourcing / BPO