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Consider the Alternatives
As the hard insurance market persists, risk managers and their CFOs are turning to alternative tools to keep steep premiums at bay. An industrial gas company is a different beast than a chemical company. Lately Richard Inserra, assistant treasurer and d ...
Best-of-Breed Software: A New Level of Results and ROI
A New Level of Results and ROI Until recently, Textron Inc., the $12 billion Providence, R.I.-based parent company of Bell Helicopter, Cessna and other businesses, operated 87 e-mail servers across its global business units. Eighty-seven. It's a number ...
Upfront: Microsoft Nets Navision
Where do you want to go today? Vedbaek, Denmark, apparently. That's where enterprise software provider Navision was headquartered until Microsoft purchased the company in early May as part of its plan to enhance and broaden its business solutions for sm ...
The Alliance Advantage
Strategic alliances are challenging the dominance of acquisitions as primary drivers of growth, and CFOs are steering those coalitions toward impressive returns. Although his company was created only recently, through a major alliance among the Big Thre ...
The State of Corporate Performance Management
How long does your planning process last? Do you link compensation to planning objectives? Can you perform rolling forecasts? Our recent survey addresses these and other planning, budgeting and forecasting questions to assess the current state of corporat ...
Corporate Governance Gets Serious
Boards are under harsh scrutiny by regulators and investors looking for wrongdoing. CFOs are playing a critical role in implementing sound governance policies to guard against such concerns, both within their organization and when serving on external boar ...
E-Marketplaces Evolve
Mark Twain's saying about a greatly exaggerated demise rings true for e-marketplaces. Despite the burst of the dot-com bubble, the global recession and an unsavory association with the name Enron, online business-to-business trading exchanges continue to ...
All the Right Moves
James M. Schneider, senior vice president and CFO of Dell Computer Corp. in Austin, Texas, felt uneasy in August 2000. Despite robust profits through the first half of that year, the company's revenues had dipped slightly, and the daily sales and margin d ...
The Workers’ Comp Crunch
CFOs and risk managers are struggling to find healthy fixes in the face of big premium hikes. The Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation is not in the airline industry. Yet many of the company's employees were misclassified as "aircraft: pilots" and " ...
The Audit of the Future
Once the Andersen/Enron dust clears, new regulations will reshape the audit, but for proactive CFOs, the audit of the future is now. Those who forget the past, the old saw goes, are destined to repeat it. Yet those who stare at it turn their backs on th ...
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