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CFO August 1, 2005	Behind Shadow Accounts Shining a Light on Shadow Retirement Accounts... Congress Takes Aim at Underfunded Pensions... What States Are Doing to Alleviate the Health-Care Burden... Going Public in Canada... Out-of-Town Shareholder Meetings... etc.
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CFO August 1, 2004	Tax Reform Hold Up Congress battles over new corporate tax reform... Opinions on Offshoring... Safety Net or Deal Breaker?... Charitable Misgivings... California Dreamin'?... Tax Reform Hold Up... etc.
CFO March 15, 2006 Anne Stuart	Serenity Now! Board members worried about compliance-related lawsuits may want to revisit their directors' and officers' insurance policies.
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.
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 November 1, 2006	Please Don't Feed the Politicians Employee campaign contributions... Robots reading earnings releases... Health-care cost increases slow... Temporary accounting help... etc.
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.
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CFO May 1, 2007	Critical Masses The Anti-Sarbox Chorus Gets Louder... Shareholder Proposals Target Board Governance... Nations Move to Unite Their Tax Policies... Consumer-Driven Health Plans Catch on with Companies, But Not Workers... etc.
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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 November 1, 2003 David M. Katz	Rites of Privacy With the dust settling on Sarbox compliance in the public sector, eyes turn to private companies.
CFO December 1, 2006 Alix Nyberg Stuart	Should You Buy D&O ASAP? Directors' and officers insurance rates have dropped, but recent settlements may swing the pendulum in the other direction.
CFO May 1, 2005 Lori Calabro	In Your Own Defense Why representing finance executives in lawsuits is both an art and a science.
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CFO May 1, 2003 Tim Reason	Off the Street Stricter rules and wary investors are prompting more companies to exit the public markets.
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HBS Working Knowledge August 9, 2004 Lucian A. Bebchuk	Bring Shareholders into the Board Room How can we improve board performance? One way is by reducing the extent to which boards are insulated from, and unaccountable to, shareholders.
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CFO March 1, 2003 Lori Calabro	The Prime of Ms. Nell Minow For the prominent shareholder activist, these have been both the best and the worst of times.
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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.
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