Ashok Divakaran, Principal, Booz & Company, discusses best practices for determining the shared services/outsourcing models best suited for your business. See related article from Business Finance.
The risks associated with employee compensation and benefits programs are multitudinous and can be mission-threatening, as the options backdating scandal revealed. A new report examines the exposures and maps an integrated approach to mitigating them.
Shareholder groups are championing health care as a sustainability issue of top concern as this proxy season heats up -- and the SEC says those shareholders are well within their rights to press companies for a vote on universal health coverage, reports The New York Times.
George Stalk, senior partner, Boston Consulting Group discusses some of the pricing innovation concepts explored in his new book 5 Strategies You Need Right Now (Harvard Business Press, 2008). See recent article.
Fraud is endemic at every stage of the international supply chain, and it's on the upswing. Don't overestimate the power of your controls, and make
sure you keep vendors on a short leash.
Change and risk are currently lighting up CEO radar screens, according to a new IBM report that identifies the hot-button issues keeping CEOs awake at night.
Gas prices are soaring and employees are feeling the pinch. Companies that offer some kind of relief may be helping themselves as much as their workers.
Authors Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts cut through the hype and jargon to lay out a road map to business performance management success and a realistic picture of what to expect on the journey.
As their department emerges from the onslaught of Sarbanes-Oxley work, internal audit directors are increasingly turning to third-party providers for the specialized talent they need.
If you work in the finance function of a global company and aspire to climb to the top rung of the career ladder, take the first half of the old axiom, "think globally, act locally," very seriously -- even at the "30,000-foot" level.
