Stories Collection

  1. THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE IS CONTINUING its aggressive crackdown on tax-shelter ab...
  2. NOW THAT PLAYERS AND owners have agreed to terms, the National Hockey League is back ...
  3. ACCOUNTING HAS BEEN A STRUGGLE at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since its...
  4. One area is establishing standards for director independence, critical because the cu...
  5. "Deconstructing American Business" WACHTELL LIPTON'S MARTIN LIPTON, the i...
  6. STRINE PREDICTS that compensation-related matters will indeed find a place on the doc...
  7. "Disney's Deeper Meaning" What that famous case says about the court. &qu...
  8. Protecting the Franchise Underpinning Delaware's popularity among companies is the ...
  9. THE HEADLINES LEAVE LITTLE DOUBT THAT MULTIBILlion-dollar U.S. mergers and acquisitio...
  10. IT HAS THE RING OF A MERGER-AND-ACQUISITION truism: the sale goes to the highest bidd...
  11. As THE DEBATE RAGES OVER WHETHER AMERICANS should be allowed to "carve out"...
  12. Rule No. 1: Inertia dominates human actions. Rule No. 2: People fear loss much more...
  13. AS MOTOROLA INC. CFO DAVID DEVONSHIRE PREpares for next month's first-quarter earning...
  14. THE NATION'S AIR-SERVICE NETWORK is still reeling from 9/11, economic doldrums, its o...
  15. Not long after Vada Hill joined the board of Denny's Corp., CFO Andrew Green took him...
  16. FOR PAUL FLANAGAN, NOW CFO OF A THRIVING, PRIvately held, Web-based graphic design an...
  17. THE END OF THE ATHENS Games also marked the end of a peculiar six-year-long Olympic d...
  18. But it's premature to ponder the auditing issues posed by XBRL-encoded statements whe...
  19. Even amid the uncertainty, companies that have adopted XBRL say the difficulties have...
  20. Using XBRL internally could also make it easier to publish external financials to any...
  21. Rivet Software The $800-per-seat DragonTag product lets you tag Word and Excel docume...
  22. TALK ABOUT NIGHTMARES that won't end. In late April, $3.5 billion software firm CA--o...
  23. LYNN CALPETER HAD TO CHOOSE. At 34, a veteran of General Electric's elite Financial M...
  24. HOW FAR SHOULD A BUSINESS GO to protect its compensation information? For The Capital...
  25. BY SEC STANDARDS, IT was an odd sort of press release. On January 4, the Securities...
  26. TRAPPED FOR FOUR HOURS on a flight packed with irritable travelers waiting for takeof...
  27. "MAN IS AN ANIMAL THAT makes bargains," observed the great 18th-century eco...
  28. IN THE CLASSIC CORPORATE paradigm, human-resources heads are the "people" p...
  29. LATE LAST YEAR, A JUDGE IN A CLASS-action suit by WorldCom bondholders made a decisio...
  30. When the Securities and Exchange Commission began requiring companies to disclose whe...
  31. Regardless of which method is used, drafting an agreement that spells out ownership r...
  32. WHEN HARCOURT INC. WAS IN the market for a new software package last year, it decided...
  33. Of the many ways a business historian might chronicle the last decade in IT, a look a...
  34. FINANCE EXECUTIVES WHO REVEL IN ARCANE FORMS OF financial modeling may soon get a rud...
  35. When last we wrote about Paris Hilton ... actually, we've never written about Ms. Hil...
  36. In the signature scene of the movie Marathon Man, the protagonist, Thomas "Babe&...
  37. A FEW MONTHS BACK, AN EXECUTIVE IN THE SOFTware industry received an unexpected E-mai...
  38. WHEN THE TECHNOLOGY DOWNTURN TOOK THE exuberance out of the software business, Mapi...
  39. IT'S TIME TO LOOK UNDER THE HUMAN-RESOURCES hood again. After an extensive technology...
  40. While the adage holds that any port in a storm will do, when technology companies enc...
  41. FOURTEEN MONTHS AGO, employees at Circulation Services Inc. (CSI) were leaving at an ...
  42. EVER SINCE THE DEMISE of Arthur Andersen, there has been speculation about what would...
  43. No one expected James Follo, the CFO at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., to mast...
  44. CHOOSE YOUR AUDITOR WISELY--in tough times, that choice may protect your stock price....
  45. IT SEEMS Robert Blakely is making a habit of rescuing scandal-ridden companies. The...
  46. FOLLOWING A YEARLONG investigation, it appears the Securities and Exchange Commission...
  47. WITH COMMERCIAL airlines flying into bankruptcy more frequently than flights arrive a...
  48. WITH CORPORATE AMERICA on a stock-buyback binge--companies in the Standard & Poor...
  49. IN AN EFFORT TO SHOW that they can walk the walk on business ethics, more companies a...
  50. I'm all for promoting women in finance, or any other field for that matter, but why d...
  51. I would like to respond to the letter by Name Withheld in Richmond, Virginia ("M...
  52. In the rush to gain a foothold in a market of 1.3 billion people, multinationals are ...
  53. THERE'S A NEW RAW-MATERIAL SHORTAGE plaguing global business--only this one is in the...
  54. LIKE MOST DRUG MAKERS, INSPIRE Pharmaceuticals lives and dies by its ability to deliv...
  55. UNTIL KATRINA, many Gulf Coast businesses thought their disaster-recovery plans were ...
  56. "I DON'T KNOW WHEN I'VE HAD THIS MUCH FUN," says Fredric Reynolds about his...
  57. NOT ONLY MAY COMPANIES implicated in price-fixing schemes have to pay hefty fines, th...
  58. AS BLOGGING'S POPULARITY RISES, some major companies, including Sun Microsystems and ...
  59. Leasing. Uncertain tax positions. Insurance. Pensions. Once upon a time, the Financia...
  60. WITH THE NEW ACADEMIC YEAR about to begin, do you know where your alumni dollars are ...
  61. CANDENTE RESOURCE CORP. NO LONGER CALCULATES currency-exchange rates. It doesn't wait...
  62. Do your company's shareholders understand its financial statements? And if not, whose...
  63. COULD A DIFFERENT reporting structure have prevented the WorldCom fraud? Harry Voland...
  64. DAVID McGIRR, CFO OF CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS, has a crystal ball in his office. When i...
  65. WAL-MART'S PROPOSAL to run its own bank has rekindled a debate over the separation of...
  66. NEARLY 35 YEARS AFTER CHINA reestablished trade with the United States, launching a f...
  67. BARNES GROUP INC. ISN'T USED TO BEING FAWNED OVER BY BANKS. The $1 billion manufactur...
  68. BECAUSE OF THE CONSTANT MOVEMENT of the tectonic plates, some scientists predict that...
  69. "Symbol Technologies got a lucky break when [its] documents were destroyed on 9/...
  70. WHO AMONG US, WHILE WAITING in an airport security line, has not wondered how much we...
  71. ONCE AGAIN, FOREIGNERS are heeding the call to "Buy American." Acquisitions...
  72. AT SOME POINT, ENRON will be as dimly remembered as Teapot Dome. * But that time is n...
  73. JUST A FEW SHORT YEARS AGO, strategic alliances were decidedly out of favor as compan...
  74. GENIUS, SAID THOMAS EDISON, IS composed of 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent persp...
  75. IS THERE A HAPPY MEDIUM between speed and practicality? "When it comes to filing...
  76. More employees should be willing to share corporate responsibility--no matter what th...
  77. STILL STINGING FROM ITS FAILURE to overhaul Social Security, the Bush Administration ...
  78. Last year, former McKesson Corp. CFO Richard Hawkins faced criminal charges after a $...
  79. WHEN NEIMAN MARCUS became the focus of a leveraged buyout by two private-equity funds...
  80. Your article "Mum Is Not the Word" (Topline, December 2005) did a fine job ...
  81. Your December 2005 By the Numbers page ("Still Waiting"), which dealt with ...
  82. ON NOVEMBER 28, THE DJ EURO Stoxx 50--the most actively traded barometer of big Europ...
  83. MANAGERS AT THERMOS INC. FACED A painful choice. Stick with the old, outdated enterpr...
  84. AS THE 18-YEAR REIGN of Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan comes to an end this ...
  85. FILE THIS UNDER "Things You Already Knew": a recent Wall Street Journal art...
  86. IN JAPAN, BUSINESSMEN SHARE A PASSION FOR golf. So naturally, Shunsuke Takeda, the CF...
  87. FIRST THE BAD NEWS: Even if you're confident that your organization has mastered Sarb...
  88. I read your editorial "View from China" (November 2005), and found it long ...
  89. ANYONE WHO HAS EVER PREPARED a tax return knows the feeling: somewhere in that vast p...
  90. RANDY COLLICA IS a modern-day treasure hunter. As a senior business analyst in Palo A...
  91. I enjoyed "Striking a Balance" (November 2005). As a former finance executi...
  92. "Secrets of the M&A Masters" (September 2005) was a concise and on-targ...
  93. AT MANY COMPANIES the CFO is a trusted confidant of the CEO, a valuable sounding boar...
  94. DESPITE OCCASIONAL INDICATIONS to the contrary, officers at most firms insist that th...
  95. What's working in the world of finance? What still needs work? CFO welcomes your cont...
  96. LEGALLY SPEAKING, COMPANIES HAVE EVERY RIGHT to prohibit employees from bringing guns...
  97. General Motors Corp. CFO John Devine has been traded in for a new model. On January 1...
  98. IF ANYTHING IS MORE REMARKABLE than the European Union's big-bang adoption of a new s...
  99. ORACLE CORP'S BID TO BUY SIEBEL Systems Inc. set Silicon Valley abuzz this fall as go...
  100. BRACE YOURSELF FOR A SHOCK: your company's real estate broker may not always have you...
  101. RECORDS WERE MADE TO BE BROKEN. But when the Securities and Exchange Commission levie...
  102. WHILE PROLONGED viewing of a diagram of Oracle Corp.'s $5.8 billion double-dummy acqu...
  103. IN 1985, LEGENDARY WINE CRITIC and industry shaker Robert Parker did something he had...
  104. WHY IS ORACLE HAVING SO much trouble hanging on to CFOs? In just over a year it has s...
  105. IN APRIL 2004, WE REPORTED ON THE growing--some would say rampant--use of unauthorize...
  106. IT'S RELATIVELY EASY to cut certain costs, but far more difficult to keep them cut. S...
  107. NEW NOTIFICATION LAWS requiring companies to report data breaches to consumers are su...
  108. IN 1967, LE DEFI AMERICAIN (THE AMERICAN Challenge) shot up the best-sellers' list in...
  109. ORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR), the idea that companies have obligations not ju...
  110. After two years of decline, U.S. companies increased their capital spending modestly ...
  111. Most CFOs use a fairly standard set of measuring rods to evaluate corporate performan...
  112. PRESSED LAST MARCH to describe the biggest controversy between U.S. and international...
  113. UNLIKE MANY CORPORATE executives, Jan-Willem Beldman says he doesn't have a problem w...
  114. IN ITS MILDLY UTOPIAN mission statement, Ben and Jerry's Homemade, the socially consc...
  115. TO UNDERSTAND HOW HURRICANE Katrina is changing the way Corporate America thinks abou...
  116. AS MARX BROTHERS movies go, Go West isn't much. The aging comedy team was running out...
  117. "PAYING FOR ANALYST COVERAGE is kind of like renting a prom date," says Dav...
  118. FOR YANG HUA, defeat was completely unexpected--and the memory of it still stings. As...
  119. LAST SEPTEMBER, KAI-FU LEE FINALLY went to work, two months after Google hired him to...
  120. CHINA'S FINANCIAL COMMUNITY is experiencing a subtle but powerful shift in perception...
  121. When it's time to raise money, CFOs find it hard to ignore the muscle that global ban...
  122. Some banks just can't take a hint. When a large apparel maker renewed its multibank c...
  123. WITH INTEREST rates still low by historical standards and spreads tight, corporate fi...
  124. AS THE CLEANUP FROM HURRICANE KATRINA continues, and with it the debate over which go...
  125. WHEN A MAJOR DISASTER STRIKES, business becomes personal. After the Gulf Coast was ra...
  126. THE GOLDEN AGE of venture capital this is not. With $5.8 billion invested in 750 co...
  127. Oracle's acquisition of ProfitLogic in July is but one sign of the consolidation abou...
  128. First, the good news: Most companies have endured and survived their initial foray in...
  129. FIFTY YEARS AGO, A MAN WROTE TO LOOK MAGAZINE columnist Norman Vincent Peale, asking,...
  130. WHEN BILL TARA, CIO OF AMERICAN MEDICAL Response Inc., the country's largest private ...
  131. Two years ago, Gary Loveridge had a sudden realization--the bad kind. As general coun...
  132. A recent survey by IDC confirmed what most people have known for some time: companies...
  133. Electronic records management (ERM) solutions involve a number of components. Dependi...
  134. It's not every software company that can point to the dot-com bust as a good thing, e...
  135. Cendant Hotel Group, one of the world's largest lodging franchisors, licenses more th...
  136. When it comes to staying in touch electronically, E-mail and instant messaging predom...
  137. It changed the rules in operating systems (Linux), dominates the market for Web serve...
  138. Technology vendors often claim that that their products or services solve a "pai...
  139. When was the last time you consulted the owner's manual for your refrigerator or toas...
  140. What separates a high-performing company from one that performs subpar? Accenture sur...
  141. CFOs serve their CEOs and boards of directors as stewards of information, analysis, d...
  142. Thanks for the knowledge imparted in "A Human Inventory" (April). I underst...
  143. THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN PROGRESS Energy put its Progress Rail Services subsidiary up fo...
  144. IT IS 2005 AND THE PENSION system is in crisis--again. Just as in the mid-1990s, Cong...
  145. DURING A NORMAL WORKDAY, public-relations manager Lindsay Peroff generally visits the...
  146. After reading "Version Therapy" (Techwatch, June), the first thought to ent...
  147. LIKE MANY RISK MAN agers, Dave Hennes eagerly awaited notification about his company'...
  148. "In recent months, [Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan] has been given to t...
  149. SINCE JOINING THE INTERNET GIANT at the bottom of the dot-com bust in 2000, Susan Dec...
  150. Most companies, most of the time, think they know when to cut and when to spend. But ...
  151. FAIR-TRADE CERTIFIED (FTC) COFFEE has been a hit at upscale coffee sellers like Starb...
  152. THE NUMBERS DO NOT inspire confidence Over and over, studies of mergers and acquisiti...
  153. In business, new ideas are rare. New jargon, in contrast, seems to spawn like guppies...
  154. THERE ARE PLENTY OF CFOs these days who are mad as hell about some law, regulation, o...
  155. SMALL BUSINESSES and other corporations that create captives as a way to garner a tax...
  156. KENNETH T. FLYNN, VICE PRESIDENT and corporate controller at Proliance International ...
  157. LIFE HAS CHANGED FOR FINANCE EXECUTIVES: business is more global, CFOs are more strat...
  158. What's dumber than a box of hammers? For home-improvement retailer Lowe's Cos., it's ...
  159. In reading your article on CFOs who are planning for retirement ("Are You Ready ...
  160. AT SOME COMPANIES, THE CFO position is becoming a temp job. In recent years, while st...
  161. WHEN MARK WATTLES, FOUNDER and former CEO of Hollywood Entertainment Corp., decided t...
  162. Loved your story on U.S. firms taking their IPOs to our friendly neighbors in the nor...
  163. A FEW DAYS AFTER THE SECOND wave of bomb attacks in London in July, The Daily Telegra...
  164. During the past three decades or so, Patrick Scannell has had countless conversations...
  165. I run a commercial-printing company, and take issue with the idea expressed in "...
  166. RISK--BIG, DISRUPTIVE RISK--IS THE theme of the day. It's manifest in public concerns...
  167. A RECENT SUPREME COURT RULING could expand the application of the wire-fraud statute ...
  168. AFTER 38 YEARS WITH General Electric Co., Dennis Dammerman, vice chairman and former ...
  169. Our June Spotlight on Insurance ("Infinite Risk?") incorrectly described th...
  170. IS THAT WAREHOUSE ABOUT TO COLLAPSE? IS THAT turbine about to throw a blade? Is that ...
  171. THE LONG WAY HOME: Executives' commutes are almost twice as long (42 mins.) as those ...
  172. If there is any lesson for CFOs to learn from the stunning acquittal of former Health...
  173. MODERN AIR TRAVEL IS A WONDERful thing, especially if you like pretzels, endless reru...
  174. WHEN PRIVATE-EQUITY FIRMS GO "CLUBBING," it's not to the latest hot spot. T...
  175. Talk about getting a dose of its own medicine. Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman L...
  176. When Guy Alton, CFO of St. Bernard Hospital in Chicago, thinks about retirement, he d...
  177. IN THE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER, A CFO's thoughts can turn to life after work...
  178. SELF-INSURING WORKERS' compensation risks can be a good move if companies manage the ...
  179. Of THE ALLEGED MISDEEDS THAT FORMER MASSMUTUAL CEO Robert J. O'Connell stands accused...
  180. IT'S 10:00 P.M., and Charlie Kernaghan is driving around the garment district in Dhak...
  181. IN "WHAT DOES YOUR CEO REALLY Know?" (May) Mike Jackson, chairman and CEO o...
  182. AFTER HER INTERVIEW WITH A LARGE ACCOUNTING firm, Lila Beckford got a verbal offer fo...
  183. WITH U.S. CORPORATE PENSION plans facing a record $450 billion shortfall, legislation...
  184. THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION doesn't like lease accounting, and it's not go...
  185. As public companies steer clear of stock-option compensation, smaller and often nimbl...
  186. SLACKER ALERT: Employees waste an average of 2 hours each workday, costing employers ...
  187. German electronics giant Siemen Corp. has a new finance chief, naming company veteran...
  188. JERRY STRAUB'S PASSION FOR THE SEA WAS LONG IN coming. Not until this year, his 28th ...
  189. GOOD ARTICLE ON KRISPY KREME Doughnuts Inc. ("Kremed!" June), but I think i...
  190. GONE IN 60 DAYS: Employers have from August 1 to September 30 to apply for a tax-free...
  191. Troubled insurer American International Group has appointed Two new finance team memb...
  192. AN INCREASING NUMBER OF CORPOrations are moving their shareholder meetings away from ...
  193. TIM REASON'S ARTICLE "FEELING the Pain" (May) is thought provoking. Sarbane...
  194. Do you have a problem child on your board of directors? If you do, expect to take som...
  195. Apparel purveyor Abercrombie & Fitch Co. has picked Michael Kramer, former CFO of...
  196. AT THE VERY LEAST, DAMAGED PARties should be able to prosecute for fraud the CEOs and...
  197. END OF AN ERA: Because of FAS 123(R), 75% of firms in a Deloitte survey are reducing ...
  198. J. Lyle Patrick is the new CFO at telecommunications carrier US LEC.... COPYRIGHT 2...
  199. Can budgeting, planning, and forecasting be considered internal controls? And if so, ...