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Leadership Q&A: High-Octane Finance
... March, she talked with Business Finance editor John Cummings about those experiences. John Cummings : You've followed an unusual career path for a finance leader, ...
Upfront: DSO Hits 10-Year Low
U.S. businesses are getting their A/R act together. According to the Credit Research Foundation (CRF), which tracks key performance measures for U.S. companies' accounts receivable, median days sales outstanding for 2005 was 40.5, the lowest in 10 years a ...
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F A Jobs Heading Overseas Finance and accounting functions rank second only to call-center processes as candidates for offshoring, according to a report from Everest Research Institute. Every multiprocess finance and accounting outsourcing (FAO) contrac ...
Upfront: Pricing the Private Company: Make a Guess
Private enterprises, like their publicly traded counterparts, must make crucial decisions that often hinge on a clear understanding of the company's value. But finance leaders at many privately held businesses have only a sketchy idea of their organizatio ...
Upfront: Weighing The FASB's Pension Plan Project
The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) sent shudders through many retirement-plan sponsors in November when it voted to reconsider its statements on accounting for pensions and other postretirement benefits. The announcement of the new project ca ...
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Restatements Rocket The number of companies that issued corrections to their financial reports hit a new high last year, according to a study by research and proxy advisory firm Glass, Lewis Co. A total of 1,195 U.S. public companies -- or about 8.5 per ...
Upfront: Telecom Costs Still Rampant
Although telecommunications cost control initiatives have burgeoned in the past couple of years, many finance organizations are still struggling to get a grip on this area, with its complex array of rebates, rapidly changing services and products, and inv ...
Upfront: Taming the R&D Dragon
Research and development is high on many CEOs' to-do lists for 2006, but many CFOs are wondering how they can keep projects under better financial control than they have in the past. "While some companies have reasonable cost control, most struggle with c ...
Upfront: HR Outsourcing Poised for Breakthrough
Despite some rocky moments in 2005, the HR outsourcing (HRO) industry is heading for a boom year in 2006, according to research from NelsonHall. "2006 will be a watershed year for HRO," says Phil Fersht, executive vice president, BPO research, at the Bo ...
Upfront: Signs of Battle Fatigue in the Fraud Wars
When the U.S. Congress declared war on corporate fraud after the accounting scandals, many business leaders were eager to sign up. But will that cultural change stick? To gauge morale on the fraud front, audit-software provider Oversight Systems Inc. surv ...
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