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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. |
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Pitt On The Spot Plus, trade-show taxes... split-dollar life insurance... our quarterly Global Confidence Survey... |
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 December 1, 2003 Lori Calabro |
Watch Your Mouth As Reg FD -- Full Disclosure -- enters its fourth year, enforcements so far offer hints on how to communicate. |
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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. |
CFO April 1, 2005 |
Proper Recognition Guidance needed on recognizing revenue...Secret Rewards... A License to Print Money?... The Right to Whisper... Light Up and You're Fired!... The Danger of Deferrals... etc. |
CFO January 1, 2002 |
Wrong Numbers Company saves money by closely examining phone bills... Toxic collateralized debt obligations... Fastow's comments suggest that he bears some responsibility for Enron's collapse... Forward triangular mergers have become popular for avoiding capital gains taxes... etc. |
CFO August 1, 2007 Kate O'Sullivan |
The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before. |
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 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 September 1, 2007 |
Mend the GAAP Simplifying Financial Reporting... Prosecuting CFOs... Finding Board Members... Gaining Proxy Access... Regulating Rating Agencies... etc. |
CFO August 1, 2004 Alix Nyberg |
Investment Insight Is Corporate America adequately managing employee pension funds? |
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 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 July 1, 2005 |
A Friend at the SEC? A kinder, gentler SEC?... Lose the Yardstick... Uncle Sam Wants Accountants... Autos Rattle the Junkyard... Playing Both Sides... You Must Be This Tall to Ride... etc. |
CFO February 1, 2003 Tim Reason |
Questions of Value Is fair-value accounting the best way to measure a company? The debate heats up. |
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 April 1, 2007 Roy Harris |
Say Again? An explosion in accounting errors -- in part reflecting the difficulties of today's complex rules -- has forced nearly a quarter of U.S. companies to learn the art of the restatement. |
CFO September 1, 2008 David M. Katz |
Fair-Value Revolution Historical cost accounting is fading as Corporate America marches into a new era. |
CFO October 1, 2007 Michelle Leder |
Rewriting the Rules Everything you thought you knew about accounting is about to change. Is there any reason to smile? This is the third of a three-part series examining the state of accounting five years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
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. |
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What Must Be Done? The experts weigh in on how to prevent future Enrons... |
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 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 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 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 July 1, 2004 |
Double Standards? How controlled companies avoid independence rules... Name Game... Congress Weighs In -- Again... The Tortinator... 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. |
BusinessWeek October 4, 2004 David Henry |
Fuzzy Numbers Despite the reforms, corporate profits can be as distorted and confusing as ever. Here's how the game is played. |
CFO September 1, 2006 Ronald Fink |
Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance. |
CFO February 1, 2006 |
So Long Footnoted Liabilities Pensions and other retiree benefits are graduating to the balance sheet... How far should a company go to protect its compensation information?... Choosing your auditor wisely may help protect your stock price... etc. |
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 Tim Reason |
On the Same Page U.S. and international standard setters are coordinating their efforts to craft a common language for business... |
CFO November 1, 2003 |
Citi's New Stance After more than a year of scandal and public penance, Citigroup CFO Todd Thomson is determined to rebuild the reputation of the financial-services giant. |
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 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 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 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 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. |
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Pro (& Con) Forma A warning on pro-forma numbers... the problems with credit rating triggers... simplified tax accounting for smaller businesses... etc. |
CFO February 22, 2005 Alix Nyberg |
Death to Smoothing A tough regulatory environment is another nail in the coffin for defined-benefit plans. |
CFO July 1, 2003 |
Bush's Big Gamble The President's $330 billion tax cut may win votes at election time, but it offers little help for businesses. Plus: E-mail as portrait painter, corporate exercises in utility, and the net tax debate. |
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 January 1, 2003 Joseph McCafferty |
Funding Fun House Critics say current accounting lets companies distort the picture they present of pension plan performance. |
BusinessWeek October 13, 2003 Robert Kuttner |
The Big Board: Crying Out for Regulation The Grasso pay debacle means the SEC should supervise the NYSE. |
CFO August 1, 2003 David Campbell |
Seeing Is Relieving Oil companies pressured to disclose payments to developing nations... IPO market limps back... Congress may ask CEOs to sign tax returns... investor relations visits Madison Avenue... a candid look inside the WorldCom fraud... etc. |
CIO January 1, 2001 Ian Springsteel |
Money Talk - Financial Glossary Fluency in CFO-speak can help your company---and your career. |
CFO February 1, 2008 Alix Stuart |
A New Vision for Accounting Robert Herz and FASB are preparing a radical new format for financial statements. |
Salon.com February 20, 2002 Dave Lindorff |
Chief fudge-the-books officer Enron CFO Andrew Fastow wasn't a renegade, he was just doing his job -- or, at least, he was doing precisely what today's CFOs are being told to do... |
CFO March 1, 2004 A CFO Interview |
New World Order IASB chairman Sir David Tweedie says global accounting standards are within reach. |