Stories Collection

  1. [right arrow] Working in haste to appease voters appalled by corporate fraud, lawmak...
  2. [right arrow] In theory, corporate governance is simple. A company's board oversees b...
  3. At first glance, one might think that the changes in a CFO's responsibilities during ...
  4. AFTER BEING HAMMERED FOR YEARS by competitors' ads and late-night TV jokes, Blockbust...
  5. [right arrow] Pop quiz: Which nation produces the lion's share of the world's cameras...
  6. [right arrow] During the 1980s and 1990s, CFOs and research analysts maintained a rel...
  7. For many CFOs, the push for tighter regulatory compliance can lead to desirable chang...
  8. THERE'S NOTHING LIKE AN ANNIVERSARY TO BRING HOME how hard it is to predict the futur...
  9. The mea culpas are coming fast and furious. In January, 27 companies, including Eastm...
  10. Say this about health-care insurance costs: they're consistent--consistently rising, ...
  11. [arrow right] It's the quintessential American success story. In 1962, Sam Walton, wo...
  12. SUMMER, 1985. THE MEETING OF THE EUROPEAN Union's heads of state was fraught with ten...
  13. Each year about 10 million people in the United States have their identities stolen, ...
  14. [right arrow] Under the reign of CEO Jack Welch, General Electric raised the practice...
  15. As of last October, the U.S. economy had entered the third year of another bull marke...
  16. THE FINANCE department has produced many memorable names over the past 20 years, and ...
  17. WHEN CFO MAGAZINE LAUNCHED ITS ASIAN edition 13 years after it began publication in t...
  18. WHEN KENNETH LAY, RICHARD Scrushy, and Bernard Ebbers go to trial this year, could th...
  19. Before Enron, there was another Houston company known for fantastic growth: Compaq. I...
  20. Five years into the new millennium, a cloud of uncertainty hangs over Corporate Ameri...
  21. So much for the golden years. With pensions severely underfunded and a debate raging ...
  22. LIKE SISYPHUS, WHO WAS CONDEMNED TO ROLL A ROCK up a hill each day only to watch it r...
  23. TWO YEARS AGO, CLARK ENGINEERS INC., A 120-EMPLOYEE firm based in Peoria, Illinois, s...
  24. PENSIONS ARE DYING, STOCK OPTIONS ARE DEAD; bonuses and health-care plans are looking...
  25. Neither HMOs nor HSAs nor 401(k)s nor grand government programs are likely to fix the...
  26. AFTER SIMMERING FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, CONCERN OVER THE high cost of employee benefi...
  27. UNITED AIR LINES IS TRYING TO LIGHTEN ITS LOAD. LAST November, the bankrupt carrier p...
  28. OVER THE YEARS, U.S. CORPORATIONS HAVE BUILT UP THE package of benefits they offer th...
  29. In many facets of business, automation is the goal. But for human resources, it's mer...
  30. 1 Obtain a small paper bag. 2 Loosely cover your nose and mouth with the bag. 3 B...
  31. EMPLOYEES ARE LEERY OF THEM. PHYSICIANS DERIDE them. And critics say they pull cash o...
  32. Forget Sarbanes-Oxley. The biggest headache facing Corporate America is figuring out ...
  33. WHEN THE COST TO PROVIDE PRESCRIPTION-DRUG coverage to employees at SPA International...
  34. JOHN DEVINE IS WELL KNOWN ON WALL STREET FOR HIS candor, and during last October's ea...
  35. THE MOVE TO OUTSOURCE HUMAN RESOURCES CONTINues to accelerate, despite the fact that ...
  36. CORPORATE WELLNESS PROGRAMS ARE HARDLY NEW. As far back as the 1920s, Japanese work...
  37. IT'S NO SECRET THAT SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE AN ESPECIALLY hard time raising capital. Bu...
  38. LAST DECEMBER, THE Securities and Exchange Commission settled the debate over account...
  39. WHEN GENE S. GODICK JOINED VERTICALNET INC. IN the summer of 1998 as CFO, anything se...
  40. THE BANKRUPTCY OF PACIFIC GAS AND Electric Co. in April 2001 came as no surprise to D...
  41. Now that one of his former bosses faces up to 40 years in prison, ex-CUC Internationa...
  42. The good news for cost-conscious companies is that revenues are rising. That's also t...
  43. "ACROSS THE BOARD" (JANUARY) highlights the increasing level of interaction...
  44. James H. Hance Jr. has retired as vice chairman of Bank of America after nearly 18 ye...
  45. REGARDING YOUR ARTICLE ABOUT hiring practices ("Revenge of the Nerds' Bosses,&qu...
  46. Now it's the shareholders' turn to extract pain. In early January, 10 former direct...
  47. WHEN TIAA-CREF BEGAN ENCOURAGING companies whose stock it owned to drop dilutive ever...
  48. Kevin Parker has stepped down as co-president and finance chief at PeopleSoft Inc. as...
  49. SOME FOREIGN LISTERS ARE GETTING tired of trying to make it in New York. With new gov...
  50. Peter Darbee takes over the top job at PG&E Corp. He is succeeded as CFO by forme...
  51. SEEMS THOSE 17TH-CENTURY ITALIANS WERE WRONG: you can get blood from a stone. [paragr...
  52. THE WALT DISNEY DRAMA is not the only one to unfold in the Delaware Chancery Court sy...
  53. TRADITIONALLY, WHEN A CITY SUFFERED A FISCAL CRISIS, the pain was localized. The busi...
  54. WHEN LAST WE LOOKED AT the Overtime Guarantee Act known as Sarbanes-Oxley (see "...
  55. KMART AND SEARS WERE BEING CONSERVATIVE LAST November, they said, when they predicted...
  56. THE WAVES OF DESTRUCTION THAT PUMMELED SOUTHEAST Asia the day after Christmas left Am...
  57. AS COMMISSIONER OF THE INTERNAL Revenue Service from 1997 to 2002, Charles O. Rossott...
  58. Stephen Winslow will head up finance at convenience-store chain Cumberland Farms. Win...
  59. PITTSBURGH DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A CITY that almost didn't pay its bills last year. Its s...
  60. American Express www.americanexpress.com/Business ExtrAACard Ariba www.ariba.co...
  61. Harley-Davidson Inc. has promoted CFO James L. Ziemer to CEO. COPYRIGHT 2005 CFO Pu...
  62. John Townsend has been named finance chief at Verizon Wireless. He succeeds Andy Half...
  63. EVERYONE EXPECTED THAT SARBANES-OXLEY WOULD result in the seating of many more CFOs o...
  64. WHEN BILL MARION TALKS ABOUT WIRELESS CONnectivity, he's not talking about an office ...
  65. REGULATORS HAVE BEEN INTENSIFYING their scrutiny of corporate bribery infractions lat...
  66. YOUR FEATURES DEVOTED TO Work/Life (November 2004) were disheartening for aspiring CF...
  67. TRY TO BOOK A TRAIN TICKET ON AMtrak's home page and you might just swear off train t...
  68. A NUMBER OF MY COLLEAGUES thought I misquoted "Losing Battles" (October 200...
  69. THERE'S NO TURNING BACK NOW. THIS MONTH, SOME 7,000 listed European companies are sch...
  70. KMART-SEARS MAY BE THE BIG-NAME DEAL OF THE year, and JPMorgan Chase-Bank One may boa...
  71. TO A FINANCE CHIEF, THE ARRIVAL OF A NEW CEO USUALLY means one thing: time to polish ...
  72. AFTER READING THE TWO LETTERS critical of Public Company Accounting Oversight Board c...
  73. STATE REGULATORS ARE BECOMING significantly more aggressive in their attempts to rein...
  74. THE BOEING CO. HAS A LOT RIDING ON THE 7E7 DREAM-Liner, the superefficient midsize pa...
  75. IF YOU'VE BEEN THINKing about moving to Florida, have we got an opportunity for you i...
  76. THE OUTRAGE ENGENDERED BY SUCH folks as those at Enron and the umbrage taken by Congr...
  77. Of all the recent financial-reporting reforms, Securities and Exchange Commission chi...
  78. In search of a new wall calendar for 2005? If you're tired of the usual selection fea...
  79. I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW REL Consultancy Group arrived at the data provided in your Aug...
  80. Tracey Travis takes over as CFO at Polo Ralph Lauren this month after a stint at Limi...
  81. The scorecard data for the telecommunications industry reported in the CFO article &q...
  82. The idea has been around for decades: a public marketplace for private-company stock....
  83. Retailer Sharper Image is looking for a finance chief after the resignation of Jeffre...
  84. More executives may consider flying coach this year or even taking the train, thanks ...
  85. THE CFO FREE CASH FLOW SCORECARD Recent trends in corporate cash flow suggest that ...
  86. Frank Sklarsky, formerly of Daimler-Chrysler AG, follows James O'Donnell as CFO at Co...
  87. BARRY MINKOW SAYS HE PLANS TO be remembered for more than the ZZZZ Best Co. fraud. Th...
  88. Senior finance executives report a growing appreciation for measuring and managing th...
  89. After more than 20 years at biotech firm Genentech, Louis Lavigne will turn over the ...
  90. During the 2005 annual-report season, many companies may be required to report materi...
  91. The Securities and Exchange Commission has put companies and their finance executives...
  92. A HOLIDAY WEEKEND WAS fast approaching, and in Lima, Ohio, managers at the Procter &a...
  93. Volkswagen of America has promoted CFO Frank Witter to replace Gerd Klauss, who is re...
  94. THE SO-CALLED QUIET PERIOD PRIOR to the public sale of securities could get a little ...
  95. In fact, according to Maria Schafer, senior program director at Meta Group Inc., some...
  96. THE JOURNEY FROM ADOLEScence to middle age takes about 15 steps for shoppers at the S...
  97. Joseph Bronson has resigned as CFO at semiconductor-equipment maker Applied Materials...
  98. Cendant finance chief Ronald Nelson has added the title of president.... COPYRIGHT ...
  99. SAY WHAT YOU WILL ABOUT HARD TIMES, AT LEAST THE corporate prescription for dealing w...
  100. US Airways Group has named Ronald Stanley to the top finance post.... COPYRIGHT 200...
  101. YOUR ARTICLE "LOSING BATTLES" (October), about the Department of Defense, i...
  102. THIS PAST SEPTEMBER AT A HOTEL IN ATLANTA, SOME 20 senior IT managers in industries r...
  103. It's no secret that the economy's anemic recovery from the recent recession reflects ...
  104. Caterpillar CFO F. Lynn McPheeters is stepping down. He will be replaced by corporate...
  105. THE RECENT LETTERS TO THE editor under the heading "Strong Words for the PCAOB&q...
  106. IN GENERAL, THE DEVELOPMENT OF faster computers just barely keeps pace with the need ...
  107. In two short decades, Hendrick Motorsports has zoomed to the top of one of the world'...
  108. Michael Bless has resigned as finance chief at data-storage company Maxtor Corp. afte...
  109. In the past few years, the Securities and Exchange Commission has launched hundreds o...
  110. THROUGH A SERIES OF TENTATIVE DECISIONS, THE FInancial Accounting Standards Board rec...
  111. FOR MERCK & CO., ONE TRIGGER WAS THE withdrawal of Vioxx from the market. For Mar...
  112. SOME COMPANIES ARE FEELING LIKE THEY'VE JUST BEEN through a difficult divorce. That's...
  113. BY MANY MEASURES, OUTSOURCING is a great success story. Service providers may have ta...
  114. LONG CONSIDERED A strong candidate to be the next CEO of Merck & Co., CFO Judy Le...
  115. THE CONGRESSIONAL AUTHORS OF the American Job Creation Act of 2004 wanted to give a t...
  116. New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has already changed the way insurance b...
  117. Ace Group www.acelimited.com American Dental Association www.ada.org/DR PLAN ...
  118. Faster than a speeding invoice and able to jump through loopholes in a single bound, ...
  119. Apart from individual instances of bid-rigging, it may never be possible to know just...
  120. Traditional "cord' fund management is under siege, and the prospects for the mid...
  121. I ENJOYED YOUR PIECE ON THE National Hockey League labor dispute ("Hockey Fight,...
  122. During a conference call to discuss second-quarter results at Sears, Roebuck & Co...
  123. Ever since the 1940s, when CFO J. Edward Lundy helped restore Ford Motor Co. to profi...
  124. ... Finance chief Kenneth Budde was promoted to CEO at funeral-services provider Stew...
  125. THE ANNUAL CFO MAGAZINE WORKing capital survey (September) again proved to be interes...
  126. IT'S NOT JUST MARTHA STEWART WHO is feeling a little confined these days. A report by...
  127. ... MBNA has named Kenneth Vecchione to the top finance post. COPYRIGHT 2004 CFO Pu...
  128. YOUR ARTICLE ENTITLED "WHO'S THE Boss?" (September) is interesting, but mis...
  129. Sometimes you need a sympathetic shoulder to cry on. As companies struggle to comply ...
  130. What does it feel like to work 100 hours a week? It feels like never doing anything b...
  131. ... Gary Kelly, formerly CFO of Southwest Airlines, has been promoted to CEO after th...
  132. REGARDING THE LETTER TO THE EDItor "Strong Words for the PCAOB" (October), ...
  133. THE FOUR HURRICANES THAT DEVAStated Florida this summer packed a bigger punch than An...
  134. When Evergreen Solar needed a fresh infusion of capital in 2003, the public markets w...
  135. ... Gregg Melnick, a former VP at Dow Jones & Co., joins Party City as CFO. For m...
  136. AS ONE WHO HOLDS THE CPA, CMA, and CFM, I can clarify that the annual CPE requirement...
  137. As goes California, so goes the nation. At least that is the case with a new paid fam...
  138. OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, THE proliferation of virtual publishing tools has made it fa...
  139. With bad news about Citigroup appearing with alarming regularity--the latest a forced...
  140. It's no secret that American companies outsource call centers to lower-cost locales. ...
  141. IMAGINE, IF YOU WILL, THIS SCENE FROM THE FUTURE. A doctor--an anesthesiologist to be...
  142. FOR AN ADMINISTRATION THAT LIKES TO TRUMPET the "ownership" society, it's a...
  143. WHILE MOST CFOs WOULD welcome the title of co-president, some may not envy CFO Kevin ...
  144. PERHAPS THERE IS A KINDER, GENTLER SIDE TO THE SECUrities and Exchange Commission aft...
  145. FORGET THE MOUSETRAP. BUILDING a better lightbulb has been a constant--and profitable...
  146. SUNCOR ENERGY INC. HAS COME clean. The Calgary-based integrated energy company, which...
  147. IT'S BEEN JUST OVER TWO YEARS SINCE Sarbanes-Oxley began requiring companies to provi...
  148. BACK IN THE MERGER MANIA OF THE 1990s, COMPAnies bought and sold workforces as much a...
  149. AN AWFUL LOT OF ATTENTION HAS BEEN PAID LATELY TO "tone at the top." In Sep...
  150. The risks for corporations of not having a handle on possible foreign corrupt practic...
  151. LEONA HELMSLEY WOULD HAVE MADE A COLORFUL SPOKESwoman for the tax-shelter industry. &...
  152. Dina Dublon is stepping down as CFO of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. at year-end after ...
  153. IT IS NOT THE BEST OF TIMES. FOR MANY OF THOSE WORKING in finance, it may be the wors...
  154. WHILE SOME CORPORATE OFFICERS continue to carp about the stiffer penalties being hand...
  155. IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, most CFOs are grateful for their lot. Most financial m...
  156. ... The aptly named Cedric Burgher is leaving Halliburton to become CFO of Burger Kin...
  157. Last month, the Congressional Budget Office announced it expects a record federal bud...
  158. Each month, Quill Corp., a $1 billion office-supply company owned by Staples Inc., sh...
  159. DOWN BUT NOT OUT: Health-care costs will increase at a lower, but still brisk, rate o...
  160. EXPENSE REPORT: Nearly three-quarters of finance executives support stock-option expe...
  161. IT'S NO SECRET THAT BANKS' USE OF CREDIT DEFAULT swaps relies on an inefficiency in m...
  162. THE TAX MAN IS KNOCKING ON DOORS. IN JUNE, THE INternal Revenue Service informed Moto...
  163. ONCE UPON A TIME, YOU COULD GROW a mighty oak from a seed during the time it took the...
  164. MOST COMPANIES DON'T REALLY MANAGE TOP-LINE growth. They allocate resources to busine...
  165. BIG APPLE BENNIES The New York City Council passed a law requiring those with $100,...
  166. FASB is set to issue its next complete standard-setting schedule this month on its We...
  167. Correction: As a result of a calculation error, the 2004 Working Capital Survey (Sept...
  168. LAST MAY, WACHOVIA QUIETLY STRUCK A $546 MILlion deal that received little mention in...
  169. How do finance teams balance long-term environmental concerns with the short-term dem...
  170. IN THE LATE 1990S, BUSINESS-METHOD patents came into vogue as Internet pioneers stake...
  171. WAL-MART MAY BE FACING THE largest class-action lawsuit ever filed against a private ...
  172. Embattled health-care provider HealthSouth Corp. has named John Workman to the CFO po...
  173. IN YEARS PAST, WHEN CFO JEFF TOMZ WOULD SIT DOWN at the end of an audit engagement wi...
  174. WHAT, YOU MAY WELL ASK, DOES THE FINANCIAL MANagement of the Department of Defense ha...
  175. The vacancy rate for U.S. office space declined 34 basis points, to 17.6%, in the sec...
  176. Roy Templin has been promoted to the lead finance role at appliance company Whirlpool...
  177. JOE HARRIS, CFO OF New Boston Fund Inc., a Boston-based real estate investment compan...
  178. AFTER READING YOUR INTERVIEW with William J. McDonough, chairman of the Public Compan...
  179. MORE THAN MONEY: A Lee Hecht Harrison survey shows that 39% of job seekers put other ...
  180. Clothing maker Mossimo Inc. has announced that CFO Mali Shrinivas has resigned. It ha...
  181. IN AUGUST, INTERSTATE BAKERIES Corp. announced it would delay filing its 2004 10-K re...
  182. I APPRECIATE YOUR FOCUS ON ENTERprise risk management in "Watch Your Back" ...
  183. EASY MONEY: 80% of banks will increase lending to middle-market companies by 10% in t...
  184. is a more effective way to cut cost than outsourcing, says a study by software form B...
  185. Chiquita Brands International Inc. has a new top banana in its finance group, adding ...
  186. When costs have been cut to the bone and revenue growth is still shaky, a company nat...
  187. WHILE I UNDERSTAND Ms. WILSON'S frustration and disappointment at the continued discr...
  188. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMMERCIAL Finance (GECF) wants to lend you money. And if that's not...
  189. American Business Media www.americanbusinessmedia.com ADA www.ada.org/DR PLAN ...
  190. Liquor purveyor Diageo Plc has named Deirdre Mahlan finance chief of Diageo North Ame...
  191. IN JULY, MICROSOFT CORP. DID WHAT WOULD HAVE probably been unthinkable just a few yea...
  192. YOUR ARTICLE "CPA ASCENDANT" (Your Move, June) discusses the growing number...
  193. The SEC has fielded nearly 250,000 tips about possible securities-law violations so f...
  194. In 1995, Bob Calderoni was faced with a major career choice: whether or not to leave ...
  195. Ted Owens joins research firm Aberdeen Group as CFO.... For more on CFO careers, visi...
  196. SEAN HUURMAN IS NOT NECESSARILY known as an environmentalist, but he knows how to sav...
  197. Regarding Nick Carr's continuing rant on the questionable value-add of IT ("The ...
  198. Norm Alster's excellent cover story sets the right tone for a review of utility compu...
  199. If you're wondering whether it's time for your company to join the wireless revolutio...