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Top 10 Opportunities for G&A Savings
Whether we're already in a recession, heading into one, or just in a slowdown, belt-tightening is much on the minds of consumers and corporate strategists alike. For some businesses, trimming costs can make the difference between survival and disaster whe ...
Insurers Not Warming to Climate Risk
Risk managers in the auto industry and beyond breathed a sigh of relief in September when U.S. Federal Judge Martin Jenkins tossed out a suit by the state of California that sought to hold six large automakers responsible for global warming. But the relie ...
IBM Charts a Course for Cognos
IBM's decision to purchase Cognos, announced last November, wasn't much of a surprise given Oracle's acquisition of Hyperion in April and SAP's October announcement that it would buy Business Objects. Still, the move did raise some eyebrows. It was seen a ...
Upfront: Insurance Market Softening?
After weathering a typhoon of price increases over the past few years, the commercial insurance market may be headed for calmer waters. According to the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. (RIMS) and Advisen Ltd., premiums for property insurance fe ...
Upfront: 2004 IT Watch List
For the second consecutive year, information security systems captured the top spot on the AICPA's list of the 10 technologies it expects to have the most far-reaching effects on the accounting profession in the near future. Software for controlling unwan ...
Upfront: F&A Outsourcing Accelerates
Finance and accounting outsourcing is picking up speed, and high-dollar deals are becoming more frequent, according to research conducted by the Dallas-based Everest Group. Worldwide, the study identified 86 F A outsourcing agreements worth $1 million or ...
Upfront: Pension Plan Pain Eases
Pension plan sponsors have been breathing a little easier over the past year; strong capital market results have boosted plan funding levels after three years of dramatic declines. Towers Perrin's hypothetical benchmark pension plan notched a 20.7 percent ...
Upfront: Collaborative Benchmarking
CFOs wanting to know how their organization's performance stacks up in comparison with that of their industry peers and leading-edge organizations worldwide can access a valuable new resource. A group of large corporations, government organizations and co ...
Upfront: The Pension Crisis Drags On
Pension plan asset performance may have improved over the last 12 months, but the retirement-funding crisis is far from over. In a November 2003 Deloitte Consulting LLP survey of executives at 125 large companies, nearly 60 percent of respondents said the ...
Upfront: Measuring the Cost of Financial Reporting Fraud
Financial reporting swindles are the least common type of fraud committed against U.S. companies, but they're by far the most costly for organizations that experience them, according to a recent KPMG LLP survey of executives at more than 450 public compan ...
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