Stories Collection

  1. THE BEST IN IR: EOG Resources, Noble, and Dell topped the list for investor-relations...
  2. PanGo Networks Inc., an RFID tag Maker, has named Susan Ledoux to the top finance job...
  3. AS A RETIRED CHIEF EXECUTIVE/VICE president/general manager with almost four decades ...
  4. JUNE WAS A KIND MONTH FOR THE BUSINESS LOBBY. NOT ONLY did Securities and Exchange Co...
  5. Anne Lloyd has become CFO at Martin Marietta Materials, advancing from her role as co...
  6. The "Limits of Mercy" (April 2005) incorrectly stated that the SEC brought ...
  7. Ask engineers to name the great scientific innovations of the past 20 years, and you'...
  8. More business travelers will be on the move this year, as financial executives are pr...
  9. Amanda Bokman has resigned from preppy-apparel purveyor J. Crew.... COPYRIGHT 2005 ...
  10. Greg Hackett, a business guru who brought bench-marking and best practices to the cor...
  11. WHEN MARTIN WELCH LEFT KMART IN MAY 2001 after the company's chief executive decided ...
  12. Is he man or superman? In March 2005, Harry You left his post as CFO of Oracle to bec...
  13. EXOTIC NEWCASTLE DISEASE, ONE OF THE most infectious bird diseases in the world, kill...
  14. Michael Sileck has entered the ring as CFO of World Wrestling Entertainment, replacin...
  15. WHILE MOST MBAs AND ACCOUNTING graduate students will move on to jobs on Wall Street,...
  16. Ace Group www.acelimited.com American Express corp.americanexpress.com/midsize ...
  17. To contribute your views to this research, visit www.cfoagenda.com. Chief financial...
  18. MENTION INTERCOMPANY TRANSACtions to finance managers, and most get a peculiar look o...
  19. The downgrade of Ford and General Motors debt to junk status has created plenty of tu...
  20. THE U.S. SUPREME Court's unanimous overturning of Arthur Andersen LLP's conviction on...
  21. ON TO BE A PRIVATE COMPANY, WITH no need to file Securities and Exchange Commission r...
  22. THERE IS ONE MORE OFFENDER TO blame for poor pension-plan performance: biased investm...
  23. LIKE OTHER MULTINATIONALS, DELL INC. HAS amassed an impressive pile of overseas cash:...
  24. Amusement-park operator Cedar Fair has promoted Peter Crage to finance chief upon the...
  25. FOR ALL THE THOUGHT THAT GOES into the costs and benefits of outsourcing, companies r...
  26. ITT Industries has a new CFO, naming George Minnich to the post this month.... COPY...
  27. WHEN CFO LAST EXAMINED THE BUDGETING-AND-planning cycle, the frustration in companies...
  28. DESPITE REPORTS TO THE CONTRARY, THINGS DO occasionally work out for the best. Consid...
  29. BJ's Wholesale Club has promoted Paul McDonough to the top finance job as Frank Forwa...
  30. I was excited when I first heard that my favorite doughnut place was going public. Ha...
  31. Companies that self-insure their workers' compensation exposure may take on new, unex...
  32. Career consulting firm Lee Hecht Harrison has appointed Daniel Schlotterbeck finance ...
  33. YOUR MAGAZINE SHOULD BE EMBARRASSED to feature Kenneth Lay on its cover ("What D...
  34. The whole affair shocked Stephen Howell, CFO of The Nature Conservancy, the largest p...
  35. It is the perennial question in IT management: to whom should the CIO report? Accordi...
  36. Companies want to negotiate good deals with their IT vendors, it's true, but many als...
  37. When Arinc Inc. makes decisions about technology projects going forward, it begins by...
  38. Business travel, already a $153 billion industry as of 2003 (the last full year for w...
  39. Just when you thought all the IT jobs were moving offshore, along comes Bill Gates to...
  40. As technological endorsements go, "we didn't realize the ROI would be so great&q...
  41. According to a new study, for all the numbers that companies crunch when deciding whe...
  42. Kudos for your perspective about [companies] taking responsibility for identity theft...
  43. With its protracted acquisition of PeopleSoft now a done deal, Oracle has been hittin...
  44. A Chinese proverb holds that to do good work one must first have good tools. Madelein...
  45. Regarding your continued coverage of the gains and pains of technology, I would love ...
  46. You might think that 4 billion of anything is plenty, but you'd be wrong. So say prop...
  47. In our buyer's guide to spend-management software ("Where Does the Money Go?&quo...
  48. When business-performance dashboards began to appear a few years ago, they were posit...
  49. Depending on who is defining the market, companies are already spending $4 billion a ...
  50. Part One in a Series EXECUTIVES WHO THINK THAT THE DOT-COM collapse, channel confli...
  51. If you build it and they come, how will you know? For as long as companies have been ...
  52. WHILE IT'S OFTEN ASSERTED THAT THESE ARE QUIET TIMES IN TECHNOLOGY, don't tell that t...
  53. These are good times in IT consulting, as companies look for help with everything fro...
  54. IN TWO YEARS, SPYWARE HAS GONE FROM MERE nuisance to serious concern, catching compan...
  55. IN WHAT HAS BECOME A TIME-HONORED TRADITION, IT upstarts delight in branding their mo...
  56. WHAT DO MANY CORPORATE BUYERS OF INSURANCE have in common with American International...
  57. Thirty-year Treasury bonds could be making a comeback. That should be good news for c...
  58. IT COULD BE AN EPISODE OF "THE SOPRANOS." As revenues at $2.4 billion Healt...
  59. BLAME UNCLE SAM FOR the latest anxiety overwhelming the healthcare sector. For the be...
  60. COMPANIES HAVE BEEN BESIEGED BY SHARE holder activist campaigns that press businesses...
  61. Best practices for midsize companies With the economy growing at only a moderate pa...
  62. EVER SINCE N. GREGORY MANKIW RESIGNED FROM THE Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) in ...
  63. IN 20 YEARS OF CLOSELY WATCHING BUSINESSES large and small, I've come to the conclusi...
  64. Now that expensing stock options is inevitable, companies are getting to work on valu...
  65. Ace Group www.acelimited.com ADA www.ada.org/DRPLAN American Express corp.a...
  66. GENERALLY SPEAKING, OFFICE-SUPPLY retailer Staples is not known for selling its own m...
  67. A PROPOS OF YOUR COVER STORY ON dying industries ("The Turning Point," Apri...
  68. FINANCE CHIEFS KNOW THE DRILL WELL. A SALES man for a software vendor, eager to convi...
  69. LIKE THE DAY TRADERS OF THE LATE 1990s, hedge funds are plaguing investor-relations (...
  70. It's not just about individuals. Largely overlooked provisions require companies to m...
  71. Microsoft has hired a new CFO from outside the software industry, naming Chris Liddel...
  72. A SIMPLE ANALYSIS OF "WHo PLAYED Ball," the table that accompanied 'The Lim...
  73. DONNA DE WINTER REMEMBERS VIVIDLY THE FIRST dollar that came into her father's genera...
  74. WHILE I AGREE WITH THE INTENT of companies to make 401(k) enrollment the default choi...
  75. Cardinal Health continues to revamp its executive suite, adding Jeffrey Henderson as ...
  76. I ENJOYED YOUR ARTICLE ON KNOWLEDGE management, "A Human Inventory" (April)...
  77. HE'S MAD AS HELL, and he's not going to take it anymore. While many CFOs are feelin...
  78. THE SIDEBAR IN YOUR FEBRUARY article "Big City Blues" ("Suburban Bligh...
  79. J. Pedro Reinhard will hand over CFO duties at Dow Chemical after 35 years with the c...
  80. In our May article "New Holes for Hackers," we misidentified the company th...
  81. The corporate world is awash in liquidity. With the help of strong operating earnings...
  82. EVEN AS OUTSOURCING TURNED INTO a dirty word, plenty of finance executives still view...
  83. El Paso Electric has elevated Scott Wilson to the top finance job from his current po...
  84. Companies looking to hedge against the falling dollar are finding the currency market...
  85. Think the Bankruptcy Act of 2005, passed in April, was aimed solely at individual con...
  86. The man who single-handedly brought down Barings Bank has a new job: managing a profe...
  87. GILLETTE CORP. MARKETS ITS SHAVING PRODUCTS AS "THE best a man can get," bu...
  88. WHEN THE U.S. SUPREME COURT ruled in March that disparate-impact theory applies to ca...
  89. FORGET THE SEVEN-YEAR ITCH. MOST finance executives feel the urge to part ways with t...
  90. What could be more perfect than a Krispy Kreme doughnut? Hot from the fryer and loade...
  91. Former Levitz Home Furnishings Inc. finance chief Carl Landeck is taking on the same ...
  92. JUST WHEN YOU THINK THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING more to say on the topic of financial...
  93. AMERICA'S BIGGEST COMPANIES HAVE rarely had more cash: as of March 30, the S&P 50...
  94. IT'S UNDER INVESTIGAtion by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and its former CE...
  95. FINANCE EXECUTIVES CAN'T SAY they weren't warned. After more than a year of dire anno...
  96. Countrywide Financial Corp, has named Eric Sieracki to the top finance post.... COP...
  97. ROBERT HOWELL DOES NOT HAVE A feel for the real world ("Future Shock," Marc...
  98. Check 21 is expected to be a boon to banks. And they are hoping to pass some of the b...
  99. No, it doesn't refer to cooking the books. Extreme accounting is instead the latest e...
  100. HOW MUCH DOES ANY CEO KNOW ABOUT HIS COMPANY'S FINANCES? HOW MUCH SHOULD WE KNOW? T...
  101. Autoparts supplier ArvinMeritor has selected former Kmart CFO James Donlon to run its...
  102. IN YOUR ARTICLE "A LOVE-HATE RELAtionship" (Spotlight, March), you stated: ...
  103. WHEN DAVID MROZ, A MANAGER AT SHANNON PREcision Fastener, needed to buy a new LCD pro...
  104. As the U.S. economy continues to gain momentum, CEOs increasingly look their CFOs to ...
  105. Retired J.P. Morgan Chase CFO Dina Dublon is the newest director at Microsoft. COPY...
  106. I READ WITH GREAT INTEREST YOUR article "Big City Blues" (February), as it ...
  107. FOR CENTURIES, HUMANS HAVE WREStled with the concept of time. In most eases, time win...
  108. I FOUND YOUR ARTICLE "THUMBSCREW, 2.0" (Techwatch, February) very interesti...
  109. Wachovia leverages Check 21 with virtual deposits Check 21 legislation has ushered ...
  110. YOU AREN'T PARANOID. THERE REALLY IS A TARGET on your back that says "Sue Me.&qu...
  111. Due to a reporting error, the April cover story about contracting industries ("T...
  112. IN MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, REAL ESTATE HAS typically been an afterthought. Recently...
  113. FOR MANY CFOs, JOINING A TECHNOLOGY START-UP during the Internet boom was like elopin...
  114. BOB ROSS USED TO LOVE HIS JOB AS CONTROLLER of clothing and housewares retailer Urban...
  115. CFO deputy editor Ronald Fink moderates this ongoing exchange of ideas between our op...
  116. Former State Street Bank and Trust CEO Marshall Carter has been elected to chair the ...
  117. These days, it's not just airlines and overnight-delivery companies that worry about ...
  118. February 18, 2005, CNET News.com: A version of the Cabir virus has turned up in two N...
  119. Companies are dishing out more dough to settle securities suits these days. While the...
  120. Linda Rubinstein has been named finance chief at Solexa Inc., a gene-analysis company...
  121. BEWARE AUCTION RATE SECURITIES (ARS). In December, Big Four auditors began issuing ac...
  122. Arch Insurance Group www.archinsurance.com Ariba www.ariba.com/source Cap Can...
  123. WITH THE TERRORISM RISK INSURANCE Act (TRIA) set to expire at the end of the year, in...
  124. Time Warner Telecom has promoted Mark Peters from treasurer to CFO.... COPYRIGHT 20...
  125. Ever get the feeling you're being watched? Well, you may be. The Internal Revenue Ser...
  126. Do You FEEL LIKE YOU NEVER HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO DO your work? Are you constantly check...
  127. Executives at Siebel Systems Inc., including CFO Kenneth Goldman, are following in th...
  128. Jean Mandeville will be the new CFO at troubled telecom Global Crossing Ltd. COPYRI...
  129. ARE FINANCIAL PRINTERS CONSISTENTLY exceeding the initial estimates they give clients...
  130. WHILE NOWADAYS ACCUSATIONS of corporate fraud seem almost routine, an allegation of p...
  131. IT'S NOT JUST DONALD TRUMP WHO'S throwing around the "F" word these days. I...
  132. Software maker PalmSource Inc. named Jeanne Seeley to the CFO post. COPYRIGHT 2005 ...
  133. AT ITS PEAK IN 1857, WHALING WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT and profitable industry in New En...
  134. Glenn Richter is leaving Sears, Roebuck & Co. to become the new finance head at p...
  135. THANK YOU FOR THE ARTICLE TITLED "Love-Hate Relationship" in the March issu...
  136. IN THE SOFTWARE UNIVERSE, A WARM FUZZY PLACE filled with flextime and endless rows of...
  137. THERE WAS NO ROAD SHOW, NO BANKER, AND NO UNDERWRITER when Cyberkinetics Neurotechnol...
  138. YOUR ARTICLE "BIG CITY BLUES" (February) was well written and insightful. H...
  139. OTHER THAN IRON LUNGS AND BOWLING shoes, few things in this world are best rented. Th...
  140. THE U.S. TAX CODE, AS ANY politician will tell you, has some problems. First, it's lo...
  141. YOUR RECENT ARTICLE ON CAPITAL acquisition ("Finders Keepers," February) wa...
  142. Blockbuster Corp. has looked at life from both sides now. When it leaped out of the g...
  143. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE KINDER, gentler Securities and Exchange Commission? Less than fo...
  144. IN THE ARTICLE "HARD TIMES" (November 2004), the author tells the sad tale ...
  145. Terrorists and hackers may spook corporate managers, but the forces of nature remain ...
  146. WANT TO BE LIKE WARREN BUFFETT? Don't pitch softball in Omaha; bet against the dollar...
  147. THE LETTER TO THE EDITOR BY JOE Moran ("Holding Government Accountable," Ja...
  148. IN THE LATE 1990s, CONSULTANTS AND academics began talking incessantly about the asce...
  149. Robert Ryan, veteran finance chief at medical-devices maker Medtronic Inc., is retiri...
  150. Our recent story on preference payments ("Bad Debt and Then Some," Newswatc...
  151. AFTER MORTGAGE LENDER FANNIE MAE FOUND ITSELF embroiled in an accounting scandal last...
  152. Tenet Healthcare Corp. has added a new member to its revamped management team, naming...
  153. Companies have always enjoyed the enticements that states dish out to lute them to re...
  154. Ace Group www.acelimited.com Aetna www.aetna.com American Express www.ameri...
  155. For-profit education company Corinthian Colleges has appointed Kenneth Ord CFO. COP...
  156. ON FEBRUARY 28, THE DAY INVESTORS EXPECTED NCO GROUP Inc. to release earnings results...
  157. THE FATE OF DAVID Welch, the first CFO to file for Sarbanes-Oxley whistle-blower prot...
  158. Regarding the notion of estimating how much revenue to allocate to every kind of corp...
  159. I was quite impressed by your article on the choice between online and traditional tr...
  160. WHILE SBC'S $16 BILLION acquisition of AT&T guarantees that 2005 will be a landma...
  161. Your "Saving Gracefully" (Fall 2004) article was very interesting. Informat...
  162. Thank you for your excellent and very informative article on Linux and open-source so...
  163. It's been a bit of a slog for XBRL, the computer code that "tags" a wide ra...
  164. Several surveys suggest better days ahead for IT budgets, with results ranging from c...
  165. Because IT plays such a central role at both the macro and micro level of American bu...
  166. " It's a challenging area, and new threats seem to be emerging all the time ... ...
  167. Counterfeiting is hardly a new or high-tech crime. In fact, only three years passed f...
  168. The U.S. trade deficit may have hit an all-time high last year, but don't blame spamm...
  169. WITH ISSUES OF SECURITY, identity, and privacy preoccupying government officials, cor...
  170. When Grand & toy, Canada's largest supplier of office products, saw some of its c...
  171. IN JANUARY 2004, THE the MyDoom computer virus proved so malicious that Microsoft and...
  172. IT'S BEEN A BUMPY RIDE FOR THE SOFTWARE CATEGORY KNOWN VARIOUSLY as spend management,...
  173. A balance of powers, clear accountability, a framework for decision-making: these are...
  174. Your article "One Way, or Another?" (Winter 2004) struck home. Having been ...
  175. When Carly Fiorina unexpectedly resigned as CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. last month, th...
  176. With M&A activity surging, many CFOs will once again grapple with the issue of ho...
  177. HAS ANY TECHNOLOGY IN recent memory been so hyped and, at the same time, so controver...
  178. Imust confess to being perpetually perplexed that so many CFOs insist that major IT p...
  179. IT LOOKS LIKE 2005 COULD REALLY BE THE YEAR THAT regulators get tough on executive co...
  180. You HAVE DONE AN ADMIRABLE JOB discussing a widely misunderstood area of the securiti...
  181. Note to CFOs of companies with substantial debt: continue to resist shareholder deman...
  182. [right arrow] In 1985 the audit business experienced a midlife crisis. Ten years afte...
  183. WHEN CFO BEGAN PUBLISHING, back in the primordial ooze of 1985, each issue contained ...
  184. IT WAS BAD ENOUGH FOR WASTE MANagement Inc. when a delinquent customer--a hazardous-m...
  185. I WAS DISAPPOINTED IN "THE LONG Haul" (February) for several reasons, but m...
  186. [right arrow] On the page, the 13-letter word looked awkward and even pretentious. Bu...
  187. It's 3 A.M. in Detroit. Having treated five of his most important bankers to dinner a...
  188. ROY HARRIS WRITES IN "ACROSS THE Board" (January) that talent scouts are ta...
  189. ALL TOO OFTEN SINCE THE 1980S GAVE BIRTH to America's historic "merger mania,&qu...
  190. The looming Social Security crisis may be great fodder for political debate, but it a...
  191. [right arrow] Companies have been off shoring--loosely defined as relocating domestic...
  192. I AM A BUY-SIDE INDUSTRIALS ANALYST at ING and enjoyed your excellent article on capi...
  193. WHEN THOMAS KUHN FIRST COINED THE PHRASE "paradigm shift" in The Structure ...
  194. [right arrow] Talk about irony. In the early 1990s, critics complained that CEOs made...
  195. REMEMBER WHEN COMPANIES WERE AUDITED BY THE BIG EIGHT? Disaster recovery was weather-...
  196. MY COMMENTS ARE IN RESPONSE TO Work/Life (November 2004). I am not a CFO, but I have ...
  197. The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forced companies to reckon with the now-imag...
  198. When CFO first started publishing, finance executives labored in obscurity: At the ti...
  199. [arrow right] It might surprise Seventh Avenue, but there are fashions in financings,...