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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
April 1, 2005
Tim Reason |
The Limits of Mercy The cost of cooperating with the SEC is high. The cost of not cooperating is even higher. Faced with financial penalties, career-ending bans, and possible criminal prosecution, more individuals are choosing to fight the SEC. |
| CFO |
Material Whirl A stock-transfer scam forces a big nonoperating charge... new evidence that banks put the squeeze on credit customers... the inside dope on earnings management attempts... etc. |
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
October 1, 2002
Alix Nyberg |
Regulation: Pitt and the Pendulum The kinder, gentler SEC Pitt envisioned vanished faster than you can say Arthur Andersen. Can he run a tougher, meaner agency? |
CFO
January 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
What's Wrong with This Picture? Polaroid's passage through Chapter 11 exposes how bankruptcy can give debtors too much power. |
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
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
March 1, 2005 |
Targeting Executive Pay The SEC sets its sights on exec comp... Restatements soared in 2004... Will Blockbuster's gamble on eliminating late fees pay off?... etc. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Henry et al. |
The Boss on the Sidelines Auditors, directors, and lawyers are asserting their new-age power, and the reason for their defiance is no great mystery. The watchdogs are finally facing genuine liability for their failures. |
| CFO |
Pro (& Con) Forma A warning on pro-forma numbers... the problems with credit rating triggers... simplified tax accounting for smaller businesses... etc. |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Lori Calabro |
In Your Own Defense Why representing finance executives in lawsuits is both an art and a science. |
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
September 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
No More Mr. Nice Guy A new CFO survey suggests why new rules for auditors may be a wise idea. |
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
April 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
Fraud Squad Federal investigators are on a crusade to elevate corporate misdeeds to criminal offenses. |
CFO
March 1, 2005
Kate O'Sullivan |
Flashbacks: 20 Years of Finance Two tumultuous decades, from Treadway and Black Monday, to reengineering and ''irrational exuberance,'' to Reg FD and Sarbanes-Oxley. |
InternetNews
January 13, 2006
Clint Boulton |
SEC is Probing IBM Earnings The Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into IBM's first-quarter 2005 accounting practices is now official. |
CFO
January 1, 2005 |
In the Same Language The rest of the world adopts international accounting standards... Grounded to a Halt?... Give It Back!... Go Directly to Cash... Where's the Coverage?... |
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
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
CFO Staff |
Washington Weighs In Plus, VCs begin to test the waters; the New York Board of Trade, one year later; the ease of employee pay-cards; the Global Confidence Survey; and more. |
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
June 1, 2009
Reason & Stuart |
Crackdown Alert After a GAO report documents a slowdown in the SEC's case generation and penalty volume under former chairman Christopher Cox, the regulator's new leaders talk tough. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others |
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
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
December 1, 2006 |
Feeling the Heat Global Warming is so Hot That Corporate America is Seeing Green... Quality, Not Quantity... Strength in Number-Crunchers... etc. |
CFO
January 30, 2004
Tim Reason |
Cheese It, the States! Corporate wrong-doers are finding state cops more aggressive than the feds. |
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
Andrew Osterland |
Ready to Pounce? The IRS has taken a predatory stance against tax shelters. But several court decisions have altered the rules of the chase... |
CFO
November 1, 2002 |
Excuses, Excuses Plus CFOs on the Move and "Same Stuff, Different Day." |
CFO
April 15, 2012
Sarah Johnson |
Coverage for Uncovered Secrets New insurance products will compensate companies for the costs of internal investigations. |
CFO
March 1, 2004
Kris Frieswick |
Bar Hopping Already considered one of the most severe civil penalties for securities violations, officer and director (O/D) bars have been embraced by the Securities and Exchange Commission with a new zeal. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Grim Reaper Visits EasyLink By all appearances, EasyLink is being hit for a minor offense. Not according to the SEC. |
CFO
January 1, 2006
Kris Frieswick |
Crackdown The IRS is taking a tough line on corporate tax cheats. According to commissioner Mark Everson, combating abusive tax shelters will remain a top priority for the IRS in 2006. In view of this, some companies are girding for battle. |
CFO
September 1, 2006 |
The Spring-loaded Options Trap Spring-loading vs. bullet dodging; why SAS-70 audits are so different; gauging your financial style; more bondholder backlash; the return of the travel agent; why companies still have so much cash; and more. |
CFO
July 1, 2004 |
Double Standards? How controlled companies avoid independence rules... Name Game... Congress Weighs In -- Again... The Tortinator... etc. |
CFO
November 1, 2004
Don Durfee |
Shelter Fallout How much will the government's crackdown on tax shelters affect ordinary companies? More than you think. And not surprisingly, some finance professionals find the government's tactics alarming. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2004
Rich Smith |
SEC Targets Lucent Ex-Execs Investigation into alleged Saudi bribery by its Chinese subsidiary moves ahead. Lucent's stock has dropped 15% in value. |
CFO
September 1, 2005
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Can You Spot the Finance Expert? Two years after the SEC started requiring finance experts on audit committees, it's still not clear who qualifies, or whether it really makes a difference. |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
The SEC's Gift to You: Part 2 By giving the investing public access to information, and serving as a regulator with the power to take action to correct problems, the SEC works hard to protect investors. |
CFO
February 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Penalty Box The SEC is handing out bigger and bigger fines for misdeeds. But is this the right approach? |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Two Weeks in January 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. |
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... |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2004
Will Leitch |
The Reformation When the scandal craze that has gripped the securities industry first began two years ago, few in the industry recognized how deep it might go. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
Playing Favorites Why Alan Greenspan's Fed lets banks off easy on corporate fraud. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Amy Borrus |
Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Little Scoundrels The SEC has a new plan to turn up the heat on small-time Wall Street fraudsters. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009
Melanie Waddell |
SEC Bulks Up Enforcement The Securities and Exchange Commission is moving at a rapid pace to repair its sullied reputation after being lambasted by Congress for failing to stop the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. |
