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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
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
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
February 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Questions of Value Is fair-value accounting the best way to measure a company? The debate heats up. |
CFO
February 1, 2005 |
Accounting for Disaster Corporate contributions to tsunami relief... WorldCom directors settle shareholder suit out of their own pockets... Does the American Jobs Creation Act encourage layoffs?... etc. |
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
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
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
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, 2010
Joseph McCafferty |
Who's in Charge Here? Listening to shareholders is easy. Making sense of their concerns is not. |
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
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
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
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
July 1, 2004 |
Double Standards? How controlled companies avoid independence rules... Name Game... Congress Weighs In -- Again... The Tortinator... 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
September 1, 2007 |
Mend the GAAP Simplifying Financial Reporting... Prosecuting CFOs... Finding Board Members... Gaining Proxy Access... Regulating Rating Agencies... 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
June 1, 2005 |
Gillette Deal Gets Nicked Why the finance chief's job is becoming a revolving door... Is outsourcing on the outs?... What's buried in the new bankruptcy bill... The battle over Gillette's sale to Proctor & Gamble... The latest stock-option valuation models... etc. |
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
October 1, 2003 |
Letters to the Editor CFOs should quit whining... can nontraditional CFOs succeed?... disagreement over the options debate. |
CFO
September 1, 2004
John Goff |
Who's the Boss? Spurred by a slew of portfolio-punishing accounting scandals and angered by decades of corporate indifference to their requests, shareholder activists want more say in how American companies are run. |
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
October 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Pay Dirt As the SEC shines a light on executive compensation, will companies clean up their acts or find new ways to hide excess? |
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
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
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
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
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
November 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
Board Games Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game. |
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
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
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
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
May 1, 2007
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Board Battles Even as conflicts between CEOs and directors erupt, finance chiefs can wield influence on both sides. |
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 |
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
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
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
August 1, 2003
Craig Schneider |
Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2004
Eliot Cohen |
Lies, Half-Truths, and Hubris Help the SEC make the right choice about fairer elections for boards of directors. Corporate insiders are spouting lies, half-truths, and hubris to prevent investors from getting a whiff of fairer elections for boards of directors. |
CFO
November 1, 2006
Don Durfee |
Pay Up With finance talent in high demand, companies are boosting compensation -- and making some demands of their own. |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Tim Reason |
Feeling the Pain Are the benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley worth the cost? Many companies are voicing their concerns to the SEC. The top complaint about 404 is that auditors must point out management's own assessment of internal controls. |
CFO
September 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Standing on Principles In a world with more regulation than ever, can the accounting rulebook be thrown away? |
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. |
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 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. |
