In a strange twist of fate, the credit officers at Wall Street’s commercial banking houses are finding that they relate more to George Bailey these days than to his well-heeled nemesis, Mr. Potter.

Mary Rhinehart, CFO of Johns Manville, explains how finance needs to reach out to business partners and drive results.

Five-plus years after Sarbanes-Oxley, companies face ever-increasing regulatory compliance demands and new ethical challenges raised by a more complex and global business environment, according to risk consultancy LRN. Marjorie Doyle, the firm's global practice leader, ethics and compliance solutions, and a former chief compliance officer at Dupont, talked with Business Finance about the changing risk landscape.

As companies struggle with rising medical costs, plans that combine high-deductible coverage with an employee-controlled spending account are rapidly becoming a staple of benefit design.

Sales departments need help to drive profitability and to avoid getting bogged down by inefficient budgeting and planning processes.

Access to ERP and other financial systems frequently marks an area of vulnerability in Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and antifraud efforts.

To help meet the regulatory requirements of its parent companies, Aera has developed GRC monitoring capabilities made possible by several foundational elements.

Case study: All politics aside, promising GRC initiatives too often
only scrape the surface. This is not the case at Aera Energy.

Hal Sirkin, a senior partner with The Boston Consulting Group, examines the roles that finance professionals must play to help their companies compete globally.