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For Good Measure A raft of proposals for audit reform... Providence takes aim at poison pills... where the bankruptcies are... all aboard the junk-bond bandwagon... etc.   |
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Pitt On The Spot Plus, trade-show taxes... split-dollar life insurance... our quarterly Global Confidence Survey... |
CFO
October 1, 2002 |
Legal Unease A good board member is hard to find... the high price of audit reform... Congress takes aim at deferred compensation... etc. |
CFO
December 1, 2002
CFO Staff |
Is This The End? When is a recession over? When these folks say it is... Why some large companies are enamored of reverse stock splits... Stock-option hedging could soon be extinct... FASB's possible move to principles-based accounting... etc. |
CFO
September 1, 2003 |
Windows into Valuation Microsoft weighs in on the debate over expensing stock options; the battle for shareholder proxy access heats up; health-care costs are still soaring; a conversation with FEI's Colleen Sayther; GM's record bond deal; and more. |
CFO
November 1, 2003 |
Reforming the Big Board Is it time for reform at the NYSE?... how body language can land a CFO in hot water... FirstEnergy's embarrassing reporting blunder... new pension disclosure rules... etc. |
CFO
August 1, 2002 |
TGIM A funny name for the erstwhile PwC Consulting... WorldCom gets caught in a storm... executives are asked to swear; securities suits target nontechs... etc. |
CFO
July 1, 2002 |
Take Me To Your Ledger Plus, good news for a hybrid tax shelter... why Americans don't invest abroad... NYSE wins a battle on Nasdaq's own turf... etc. |
CFO
May 8, 2006 |
Delayed Reactions Sarbanes-Oxley is Still Wreaking Havoc on Corporate Reporting... A Hotter Shade of Pink... Pensions Spark Credit Ratings Debate... What Board Members Want from the CFO... etc. |
CFO
April 1, 2004 |
Bolting from the Big Four Smaller firms are picking up audit clients at the expense of the Big Four... Stock options fall out of favor... a proposal to synchronize accounting and tax reporting... analysts say good-bye to stock ratings... etc. |
CFO
March 15, 2006 |
What's in Your Wallet? Full disclosure for CFO compensation... Catering to the Extremes... Fairness as an Option... Uneven Expansion... Basel II, Eurobanks 0... Do You Hear an Echo?... etc. |
CFO
July 1, 2007
Scott Leibs |
Five Years and Accounting This story is Part 1 in a three-part series on how corporate finance has changed since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed. |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Arthur Levitt |
You Are the Guardians Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt offers some pointed advice on how to restore confidence in corporate accounting. |
CFO
March 1, 2005 |
Paradigm Shifts The 20 events that most altered the practice of corporate finance since CFO magazine first began reporting on it in 1985. |
CFO
May 1, 2003 |
Newswatch Rising tensions between the U.S. and EU could lead to more trade restrictions. Plus: visas harder to come by, Nader rides again, and ten signs your finance department is second rate. |
CFO
January 30, 2004 |
Is 10 Years Enough? Did Former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow get all he deserved? Also: why equity research is moving to India; the effect of Medicare reform on retiree benefits; Citigroup in the hot seat, again; the tax-friendly status of online commerce may be in jeopardy; more. |
CFO
March 1, 2004 |
Making the List The SEC tries to tease apart the tangled connections between pension-investment consultants and money managers. Also: IRS aims to soup up audits; companies collecting antidumping tariffs; hotel fees irk business travelers; and more. |
CFO
January 1, 2004 |
The Foes of Enforcement State vs. federal regulators... Mutual-fund CFOs are clean, so far... Sarbox Section 404... Executive compensation and the IRS... |
CFO
May 1, 2004 |
Small-Town Blues Is a small-town locale a risk factor for corporate fraud?... When work outings can result in workers' comp claims... Paternity benefits are catching on... Meet a CFO whistle-blower... The benefits of setting up shop in Puerto Rico... etc. |
CFO
November 1, 2004 |
The SEC Plays Good Cop The SEC has a change of heart... Lucent's massive NOL carryback... The problem with whistle-blower hotlines... Why Florida hurricanes won't affect insurance rates... Who's really listening to your conference calls? etc. |
CFO
September 1, 2004 |
Too Much of a Good Thing A recent rule change proposed by the Financial Accounting Standards Board may kill contingent convertible bonds... Refining GAAP... Seeking to apply the CFO act to the DHS... Connecting fraud and loss... etc. |
CFO
June 1, 2003 |
The Plan of Plan B's Do plan B accounting firms present a real threat to the Big Four?... Master of Science in Financial Engineering program at Kent State University began trading derivatives on a simulated trading floor... Gov fails audit... Directors getting paid more... etc. |
CFO
June 1, 2006 |
Guidance Lite The end of quarterly earnings guidance... Wage inflation in India... Nonprofit mergers... An LBO Twist... The Small Fry... etc. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Facing the Bear: The 2002 Compensation Survey With stock options under scrutiny, companies are once again seeking the elusive link between pay and performance. |
CFO
January 10, 2007 |
In Whose Best Interest? How Accounting Firms Would Change Their Industry... Why Performance Scorecards Still Fail... The Uninspired American Employee... M&A and Option Backdating... The CFO as Investor-Relations Professional... etc. |
CFO
April 1, 2003 |
From All of Us Middle managers certify their numbers... Auditors make a company fire its sterling CFO... blind trusts for stock options... the SEC levies fines but doesn't collect them... etc. |
CFO
September 1, 2003
Alix Nyberg |
Sticker Shock When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, it didn't worry about how much it would cost companies. Today, CFOs are totting up the compliance bill -- and they don't like what they see. |
CFO
June 1, 2004 |
Break Up the Big Four? It may be time to break up the largest accounting firms... Calpers steps up its shareholder activism... Commercial banks provide a viable alternative to IPO underwriting... New rules for overtime pay... etc. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
New Ways to Retain and Reward Employees (Hint: We're Not Talking Stock Options) A handful of technology companies are heading in alternative directions when it comes to giving employees incentives to stay and perform well. |
CFO
October 1, 2006 |
Rating Underfunded Pensions What Pension Funding Means for Credit Ratings... Why Private Equity is Pricing Health Plans... The Fate of the R&D Tax Credit... Finding "Financial Experts"... The Thompson Memo Debate... Short-Term Places to Stash Cash... etc. |
CFO
August 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
Pay for Nonperformance? Executive compensation practices won't change until accounting rules for options are fixed. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Equity Research Executive recruiters are looking deep into the backgrounds of CFO candidates... China is coming to Corporate America... how bribery increases the cost of doing business... etc. |
CFO
October 1, 2002 |
Reform: How the Corporate Landscape Is Changing Everyone from Congress to the journalist next door has a reform proposal to promote. This article assesses the likelihood of passage as well as the potential impact of several proposals. |
CFO
October 1, 2003 |
Letters to the Editor CFOs should quit whining... can nontraditional CFOs succeed?... disagreement over the options debate. |
CFO
July 1, 2004 |
Double Standards? How controlled companies avoid independence rules... Name Game... Congress Weighs In -- Again... The Tortinator... etc. |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Russ Banham |
Pension Dissension FASB is championing a two-phase project that would provide guidance for gauging annual pension expenses on the income statement and disclose plan assets and liabilities on the balance sheet and in footnotes. CFOs protest. |
CFO
November 1, 2002 |
Excuses, Excuses Plus CFOs on the Move and "Same Stuff, Different Day." |
CFO
October 1, 2003
CFO Staff |
The Big, Bad Big Four Is the Big Four too big?... hire private jets by the hour; what a formal investigation by the SEC really means... why energy deregulation needs more regulation... the IRS is faulted for lax pursuit of tax offenders... tc. |
CFO
September 1, 2005 |
Hollywood Hits Up Wall Street Financial Thrillers... Beyond the Bottom Line... When Is Insurance Not Insurance?... Verbatim... So You Say... Coffee, with Cream, Sugar, and Interest... Big Blue's Reporting Blues... etc. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
BusinessWeek
October 14, 2009
Nanette Byrnes et al. |
Inside the Business War Against Tax Reform Lobbying by P&G, Schering-Plough, and others has stymied the proposed $210 billion in hikes. But their tactics raise troubling questions. |
Financial Advisor
May 2011
Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Is the broker protocol being eroded... Fiduciary can be marketing tool to get high net worth clients... Americans unconfident about their retirement... |
CFO
September 1, 2007 |
Mend the GAAP Simplifying Financial Reporting... Prosecuting CFOs... Finding Board Members... Gaining Proxy Access... Regulating Rating Agencies... etc. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Julia Homer |
How Did We Get Here? Much of what happened in the 1990s also happened in the 1980s. Here's hoping we don't do it again. |
CFO
October 1, 2004 |
Taxpayer Beware The IRS goes where the money is... More grim projections for the federal budget deficit... The SEC bulks up... The bottom line of giveaways... FASB's ambitious agenda... etc. |
CFO
January 30, 2004
Scott Leibs |
New Terrain Post-Enron reforms have made dramatic alterations to the landscape of corporate governance. Boards, their committees, and internal auditors now have greater responsibilities and powers. How will these reforms change the CFO's job? |
CFO
November 1, 2003 |
Sarbox's Unseen Costs "The crucial unseen cost is that of innovations foregone or delayed," says a reader. More letters to the editor: Microsoft on options... thoughts on Black-Scholes... expensing flaw... the root of the problem |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Joseph McCafferty |
Boo-hoo Economics CFOs are gloomy about the short-term prospects for the United States. |
InternetNews
October 7, 2004
Roy Mark |
Congress Still Hot on Tech Agenda The House and Senate are battling to session's end on new Internet access tax moratorium and blocking stock option expensing. |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Kate O'Sullivan |
Dear Mr. President Both as businesspeople and citizens, CFOs have plenty of advice for the next occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. |
