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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 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 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. |
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. |
Knowledge@Wharton |
The Changing Role of the CFO Companies are once again demanding hardcore accounting, financial reporting and risk-management skills. This represents a shift back to the roots of the CFO position... |
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 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 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 September 1, 2007 |
Mend the GAAP Simplifying Financial Reporting... Prosecuting CFOs... Finding Board Members... Gaining Proxy Access... Regulating Rating Agencies... 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 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 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 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 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. |
BusinessWeek September 22, 2003 Nanette Byrnes |
Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others |
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 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 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 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 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 March 1, 2005 Ronald Fink |
Future Shock How can CFOs create value in uncertain times? Five experts offer fresh answers. |
CFO February 1, 2010 Scott Leibs |
25 Years of Finance On our silver anniversary, a look at the past, present, and future of the CFO. |
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 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 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 April 1, 2006 |
States to Employers: Pay Up States press companies to provide employee health-care coverage... Taking Stock of SARs... Double the Fun... Total U.S. Tort Costs Continue to Climb... Pricier Premiums... Insuring the Books... Need More Time to File Taxes?... etc. |
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? |
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. |
CFO September 1, 2006 Ronald Fink |
Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance. |
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. |
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 June 1, 2004 Kris Frieswick |
The Backlash The only thing that will make the furor over offshoring worse is hiding from it. |
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 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. |
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 May 1, 2008 Kate O'Sullivan |
Can This Relationship Be Saved? Auditors and CFOs aren't the friends they once were, but they are working out their differences. |
CFO September 1, 2008 David M. Katz |
Fair-Value Revolution Historical cost accounting is fading as Corporate America marches into a new era. |
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, 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 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. |
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 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 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 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 August 1, 2002 Ronald Fink |
The Fear of All Sums To restore investor trust, many companies are disclosing more information, according to a CFO survey. But it may not be enough. |
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 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 1, 2004 A CFO Interview |
New World Order IASB chairman Sir David Tweedie says global accounting standards are within reach. |
Reason February 2004 Callahan & Kaza |
In Defense of Derivatives Between Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing, the controversial financial instruments have gotten a bad rap. Here's the truth. |