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CFO December 1, 2003 Joseph McCafferty	Adelphia Comes Clean Can Vanessa Wittman help bring scandal-wracked Adelphia out of bankruptcy -- and back into investors' good graces?
CFO July 1, 2007	Cheap Talk or Deaf Ears? Whistleblower Woes... Marching to Different Drummers... A Toxic Mess... Do Companies Do Good Well?... Patents Bending... If It's Tuesday, This Must Be... etc.
CFO October 1, 2003 Alix Nyberg	Whistle-Blower Woes Many companies think the whistle-blower provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley will spark nuisance suits by disgruntled employees. The truth is far more complex.
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 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, 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 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 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 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 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 February 1, 2006 Kate O'Sullivan	The Best Defense In today's high-stakes legal environment, top white-collar attorneys are ready to defend the CFO.
CFO May 1, 2005 Kris Frieswick	What Does Your CEO Really Know? How much do chief executives know about company finances? We asked more than 300 CFOs to rate their boss's finance IQ.
Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003	Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America.
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 July 1, 2006	Backdaters Get Clocked Market Timers... Under the Runway... Enron: End of an Era... The Longer View... Frequent Filer... Don't Know Much about Liquidity... Attack of the Naked Shorts... Long Live the Local Branch... etc.
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.
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.
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Nanette Byrnes	Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others
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.
Reason January 2006 Brian Doherty	You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation.
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 April 1, 2005	Take This Job The First CFO to File for Sarbanes-Oxley Whistle-Blower Protection... The Art of White-Collar Crime... CFOs on the Move...
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 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 September 1, 2002 David M. Katz	The Insiders Do internal auditors have a bigger role to play in ensuring the integrity of financial reports?
CFO September 1, 2003	Doing Time? Nearly 11 years after accounting irregularities came to light, a former CFO is heading to jail. Also: A new chief accountant at the SEC; CFOs on the move.
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 May 1, 2005 Lori Calabro	In Your Own Defense Why representing finance executives in lawsuits is both an art and a science.
CFO September 1, 2002 Lori Calabro	I Told You So To controversial securities litigator Bill Lerach, the current wave of corporate fraud scandals was both inevitable and preventable.
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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 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 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 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.
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004	On Trial This year, the wheels of justice may catch up to some corporate movers and shakers.
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 September 1, 2007	Mend the GAAP Simplifying Financial Reporting... Prosecuting CFOs... Finding Board Members... Gaining Proxy Access... Regulating Rating Agencies... etc.
CFO July 1, 2004	Double Standards? How controlled companies avoid independence rules... Name Game... Congress Weighs In -- Again... The Tortinator... 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 March 15, 2006 David M. Katz	A Tough Act to Follow What CFOs really think about Sarbox -- and how they would fix it. Included are the results of an exclusive survey of finance executives on the topic.
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.
Financial Planning September 1, 2005 Suzanne McGee	Scandal! Corporate governance experts agree that the past two decades have been a particularly fertile period for scandals, generating an abundance of candidates for inclusion in a new series of "Wall Street Most Wanted" playing cards. What motivates the cheaters -- greed, fear or ego?
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 Alix Nyberg	Executive Indictments Prosecutors looking to pin corporate scandals on the top dog often press other executives for information that could prove a case against the CEO in exchange for leniency for the informers. Finance chiefs facing criminal sentencing have traditionally jumped at the offer.
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 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.
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U.S. Banker August 2005 Michael Dumiak	With the Whistleblower Provision, No One Wins David E. Welch, the former CFO of Virginia's Bank of Floyd, is the first person protected under Sarbanes-Oxley's whistleblower provision. His experience shows that flaws in the law put both the company and the whistleblower at risk.