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Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing...   |
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Oh, the Games Enron Played The Enron story is not simply a case of a lone company that played with fire and got burned. Enron was able to take enormous risks while keeping shareholders in the dark because it could exploit accounting loopholes for subsidiaries that are available to most publicly traded companies. |
| CFO |
Pitt On The Spot Plus, trade-show taxes... split-dollar life insurance... our quarterly Global Confidence Survey... |
CFO
November 1, 2003
Ronald Fink |
Where Credit Is Due A new study of the largest issuers of corporate debt shows that recent gains in creditworthiness are more fragile than you think. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Reporting: See-Through Finance The market's distaste for complex financing could raise your company's cost of capital, even if you comply with new reporting rules. |
CFO
September 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Good to Rate The rating agencies are under review for their failure to downgrade Enron more promptly. The only trouble is, proposed reforms might make things worse. |
CFO
Andrew Osterland |
Reining In SPEs New rules for special-purpose entities may result in bigger corporate balance sheets. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
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, 2003
Randy Myers |
Anxiety's Price New regulations call into question the value of off-balance-sheet financing, if only because of their impact on bankers' fees. |
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 |
Pro (& Con) Forma A warning on pro-forma numbers... the problems with credit rating triggers... simplified tax accounting for smaller businesses... 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
June 1, 2006
Ronald Fink |
Two-way Tools Companies are issuing a new breed of security that blends debt and equity. But investor demand for such hybrids may not be as great as banks hope. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005 |
An Unconventional Approach In this excerpt from Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment, author David Swensen describes the many risks facing corporate bond investors. |
| CFO |
What Must Be Done? The experts weigh in on how to prevent future Enrons... |
CFO
August 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
Too Much Cash Many companies remain cautious about using their cash, even as it continues to pile up. When will they finally start spending it? |
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
September 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Over Rated? The subprime fiasco has put corporate credit-ratings on thin ice. |
CFO
Andrew Osterland |
Commercial Paper Chase If banks have to come clean about their off-balance-sheet leverage, get ready to pay more for money. |
OCC Bulletin
April 4, 2001 |
Leveraged Financing Guidance for bankers and examiners that more fully describes supervisory expectations regarding sound practices for leveraged financing activities. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
The Uncertainty of Surety A pending face-off between bankers and insurers may put an end to a cheap source of credit enhancement. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Ronald Fink |
Other People's Money To encourage fund managers to act solely in the interests of shareholders, activists want their proxy votes disclosed. |
CFO
June 1, 2010
Randy Myers |
Ratings Disaster Congress takes another stab at reforming the credit-rating agencies, whose AAA seal of approval helped fuel the subprime crisis. But will any change truly make a difference? |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others |
CFO
June 1, 2003
Alix Nyberg |
Second Acts After bankruptcy, companies often teeter between encore and final curtain call. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
Eric Uhlfelder |
Making the Grade Think you're safe buying an investment grade bond for your client? Guess again. Rating downgrades are coming at a record pace. |
Salon.com
February 5, 2002
Damien Cave |
Risky business How did Enron break into the elite Wall Street world of credit derivatives? |
Salon.com
January 29, 2002
Jake Tapper |
How to be an Enron millionaire According to former colleagues, two executives reaped million-dollar windfalls by investing $6,000 apiece in the company's partnership scam. A case study in corporate rot... |
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
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. |
BusinessWeek
August 6, 2007
Roben Farzad |
Let The Blame Begin Everyone played some role in the subprime mess - the Street, lenders, ratings agencies, hedge funds, even homeowners. Where does responsibility lie? |
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
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
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. |
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
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. |
Salon.com
November 9, 2001
Andrew Leonard |
Enron, we hardly knew ye Ironically, only one thing could have saved the now-imploding corporate poster child for deregulation: Tougher regulations requiring more financial "transparency"... |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2006
Matt Hudgins |
Why CDOs Are Hot With much of the world's investment capital seeking placement in commercial real estate, lenders are eager to help property owners liquidate portions of their equity and refinance through CDOs. |
BusinessWeek
November 24, 2003
Mike France |
Heiress In Handcuffs Lea Fastow is charged with helping husband Andy orchestrate the white-collar crime of the century. Now she could be the key to nailing Enron's top dogs. |
CFO
July 1, 2004 |
Double Standards? How controlled companies avoid independence rules... Name Game... Congress Weighs In -- Again... The Tortinator... etc. |
CFO
August 1, 2005 |
Unhealthy Doughnuts Letters to the editor: Kremed!... True Independence... Who's Driving This Bus?... When Integrity and Honesty Went Missing... etc. |
CFO
July 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
In the Catbird Seat Private investors are starting to put their mountains of cash to work. |
BusinessWeek
November 26, 2007
David Henry |
A Chain Reaction in Shaky Debt? As exotic CDOs topple, the impact could ripple through debt markets and wallop more funds and banks. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 7, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron Companies can take steps to help senior executives avoid the two sources of leadership failure at Enron: personal opportunism and flights to utopianism. |
CFO
Tim Reason |
Pump Up the Volume Companies are pouring more information than ever into their annual reports. Will investors be satisfied? |
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. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Sep/Oct 2005
Andrew Stewart |
7 Real Estate Finance Myths Unveiled Discover the market factors that really are influencing today's real estate transactions. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
Playing Favorites Why Alan Greenspan's Fed lets banks off easy on corporate fraud. |
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. |
