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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 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. |
FDIC FYI
January 13, 2004
Miller & Ayres |
Could a Bull Market Be a Panacea for Defined Benefit Pension Plans? This report describes the serious challenges and outlook facing the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and corporate defined benefit pension plans, and examines the effects on financial institutions insured by the FDIC. |
CFO
September 1, 2005
Russ Banham |
Pension Upheaval Will proposed pension reforms actually save the system, or cause more of Corporate America to opt out? |
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
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
September 1, 2007 |
Mend the GAAP Simplifying Financial Reporting... Prosecuting CFOs... Finding Board Members... Gaining Proxy Access... Regulating Rating Agencies... etc. |
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, 2011
David M. Katz |
Give-and-Take on R&D The perennial squabbling over the R&D tax credit enters a new phase, for better and worse. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004
Nanette Byrnes |
The Benefits Trap Old-line companies have pledged a trillion dollars to retirees. Now they're struggling to compete with new rivals, and many can't pay the bill. Some are racing to cut or drop retiree medical benefits to give a quick boost to their bottom lines. |
| 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
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
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
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
August 1, 2004
Alix Nyberg |
Investment Insight Is Corporate America adequately managing employee pension funds? |
CFO
October 1, 2003
CFO Staff |
The Big, Bad Big Four Is the Big Four too big?... hire private jets by the hour; what a formal investigation by the SEC really means... why energy deregulation needs more regulation... the IRS is faulted for lax pursuit of tax offenders... tc. |
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
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
December 1, 2006
Ronald Fink |
Promises, Promises New pension rules are supposed to secure employees' retirement. Employers may have other ideas. |
CFO
November 1, 2007
Russ Banham |
20/20 View on Managing Pension Liabilities: The Road Ahead Changes in accounting, law, and the lifespan of employees have companies considering outsourcing their defined benefit pension plans. |
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
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. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Nanette Byrnes |
Sink Hole! How public pension promises are draining state and city budgets. |
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?... |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2004
Chris Mallon |
The Perils of Pensions Once a no-lose situation for both management and employees, defined-benefit pension plans are now threatening to cripple some U.S. corporations. But the piper must be paid, and it's investors who will ultimately suffer. |
Investment Advisor
January 2006
Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Plan Advisor: Reform is in the Air Officials in Washington expect Congress to pass legislation early this year that would shore up the nation's ailing pension system and provide tax breaks to encourage retirement savings. |
Knowledge@Wharton
February 12, 2003 |
A "Perfect Storm" of Circumstances Batters Corporate Pension Plans Questions raised about accounting for pension funds have prompted some Wharton faculty and other experts to ask if rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, as well as the Internal Revenue Code itself, may have played a significant part in the strife. |
InternetNews
November 14, 2006
Roy Mark |
Congress Urged to Extend R&R Tax Credit A wide range of technology trade groups called upon Congress today to stop playing politics with the extension of the research and development tax credit. |
CFO
February 22, 2005
Alix Nyberg |
Death to Smoothing A tough regulatory environment is another nail in the coffin for defined-benefit plans. |
CFO
December 1, 2009
Kate O'Sullivan |
All Eyes on Reform Public support for health-care reform is high, but some CFOs take a different view. |
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
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
April 1, 2006
David M. Katz |
Sprucing Up the 401(k) With other retirement vehicles in dire shape, plan sponsors are rethinking their defined-contribution offerings. |
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. |
Financial Planning
March 1, 2011
Donald Jay Korn |
Pension Tension Old-fashioned pensions might be disappearing, but they haven't vanished. |
CFO
September 1, 2006
Lori Calabro |
U.S. Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty Paul McNulty, whose team of prosecutors has convicted some 30 CFOs in the past four years, talks about backdating, company cooperation, and why the government's Corporate Fraud Task Force isn't going away. |
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
February 22, 2005
David M. Katz |
The Domino Effect Ailing pension plans could overburden the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp and send premiums soaring. |
National Defense
October 2012
Karen L. Manos |
Contractors Charging the Federal Government For Pension Contributions Is Not Corporate Welfare In full election-year mode, news media have been awash in articles, blogs and reports urging Congress to stop the "corporate welfare" of reimbursing federal contractors' pension costs. |
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. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning: Congress to Tackle Pension Funding, Investment Advice Congressional action on two key areas of retirement planning -- defined benefit funding and investment advice -- are expected to come by year-end. |
Job Journal
August 3, 2003
Michael Kinsman |
Is Your Pension in Peril? Company failures have created a reversal of fortune in pension funds. |
CFO
February 1, 2009
Josh Hyatt |
Prognosis: Negative Rising health-care premiums have companies shifting costs, pushing "wellness," and punishing unhealthy behavior. |
Financial Advisor
February 2006
Tracey Longo |
Unexpected Turbulence How a United Airlines pilot-turned-financial-advisor is helping colleagues grapple with pension nightmares. |
National Defense
October 2011
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
President's Half-Trillion Dollar Jobs Plan Muddies the Defense Budget Waters What one wonders though is how the new requirement to "pay for" the Jobs Bill will affect defense spending. |
Investment Advisor
May 2006
Melanie Waddell |
Retirement Planning: Pension Reform Bill Near? Lawmakers failed to unveil the much-anticipated compromise bill on pension reform before leaving for spring break, which means the unveiling of a final bill could likely drag out for some time. |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 15, 2003 |
The Long, Winding Road to Pension Reform in Latin America Like other nations, countries in Latin America are attempting to make their retirement systems more efficient and responsive to citizens' needs. This is difficult in the best of times. |
Investment Advisor
August 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Healthcare Reform Steamroller Advances House and Senate committees offer health reform bills. Both the House and Senate legislation would likely raise taxes for many. |
The Motley Fool
December 16, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
2009: End of the Road for Pensions? The final nail in the coffin for pensions may come from 2008's terrible stock market performance. |
Financial Advisor
June 2006
Alan Lavine |
Storm Clouds For Municipal Bonds Underfunded liabilities loom as a threat to governments' finances. |
