CFOs' Top Priority for 2011? Get a Grip on Performance Management
Finance leaders are determined to get their budgeting and forecasting processes in good shape this year. And they're ready to shell out actual money for the technology they'll need to get results. Those are two findings that leaped out at me from a new ...
BizTaxBuzz: New Tax Disclosures: An IRS Peephole Into Your Past?
Many corporate taxpayers face a new compliance task this year -- filing the new Schedule UTP with their tax returns for 2010. And many of them are jittery about it. One concern is that IRS might use the disclosures to throw light on uncertain tax position ...
Warren Gets Buffeted
It's been a difficult day for the Sage of Omaha -- or should that be the Saint of Omaha? The famously upright Mr. Buffett must have known what was coming when he penned a news release last night announcing the resignation of David Sokol, chairman of sev ...
BizTaxBuzz: Jon Stewart Rips GE for Tax Avoidance
The host of "The Daily Show" blasts the nation’s largest corporation: “I thought the corporate tax rate needed to be lowered? I’m not sure how you can lower it from … nothing!” Jon Stewart Rips GE for Tax Avoidance | Source: The Big Fat Financ ...
The CFO-to-Go Career Option
, Azzarelli talked with Business Finance editor John Cummings about the charms and challenges of the part-time CFO career track. John Cummings : You seem to be in a booming industry. Tom Azzarelli: I... ...
Healthcare Tax Credit? What Healthcare Tax Credit?
The Affordable Care Act is one year old this week. Astoundingly, many small employers are still in the dark about key components of the legislation that are supposed to help them provide health insurance for their workforce. Healthcare Tax Credit? What ...
Why an Enhanced R&D Credit Is a Total No-Brainer
Pressure is mounting on Capitol Hill in support of the American Research and Competitiveness Act, a bipartisan bill that aims to strengthen the research and development tax credit. Here's why the bill is necessary. Why an Enhanced R&D Credit Is a Total ...
Tons of ERP Projects Still Bomb
In the second in our recent series of excerpts from his book The Next Wave of Technologies: Opportunities in Chaos (Wiley, 2010) tech guru Phil Simon made this astonishing statement: "The failure rate for IT projects is conservatively estimated to be 60 ...
BizTaxBuzz: "Tax Taliban" Targets Bank of America
A grass-roots tax activist group plans new demonstrations against an institution that it claims has "consistently avoided any form of accountability to the American taxpayer" and "imperiled an entire nation with its greed." “Tax Taliban” (aka “Pro ...
Job Market Heating Up for Finance Pros
Business Finance. "> Some good news for a change from the Labor Department’s latest job figures today, which show an unexpectedly strong surge in employment. The economy added 192,000 new jobs in February, tugging the unemployment rate down to 8.9 ...












