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- There's the had news, and then there's more bad news. The bad news is that Financial ...
- Got a patent sitting on the shelf collecting dust? Put it to use by donating it to a ...
- Written by Niles Howard. Formerly an editor at Money and Business Month magazines, he...
- Burlington, Mass.-based Open Market Inc. is in the market for a new CFO. Regina Summe...
- * The average combined sales tax rate reached a record high of 8 3% in 1998; accordin...
- * In a survey of 214 companies by William M. Mercer Inc., 88% consider their use of t...
- Bill Birchard, a CFO contributing editor, is co-author of the recently published hook...
- With sales stagnant and profits down, Sears, Roebuck and Co. is tired of the softer s...
- The insurance industry is trying to end the party its American corporate customers ha...
- Sometimes, one plus one can equal mare than two. At least that is what El. DuPont de ...
- Jeffrey Zygmont writes on business and technology from Salem, New Hampshire.
A new ...
- Lawrence Levy is leaving his job at Pixar Animation Studio to follow his dream. No, h...
- * Forty percent of 587 treasurers polled in a recent survey by the Treasury Managemen...
- MAXAGER'S SOFTWARE MEASURES CASH FLOW AT THE BOTTLENECK.
Suppose you have two machi...
- Jeannie Mandelker is a freelance writer based in Montrose, New York.
Plan sponsors ...
- For the highest-paid CFOs, the good times continued to roll in 1998, although not at ...
- The best-laid plans may lie automated. There T are a number of software products on t...
- Poor recordkeeping and internal controls. A miserable return on a massive computer up...
- In the past, when traders at San Francisco-based Connell Bros. Ltd. completed a deal,...
- Julie Carrick Dalton is a freelance writer based in Woburn, Massachusetts.
Why corp...
- The last thing you want is a bounty hunter knocking on your Company's door. That's th...
- The hottest executive job in 1999 is E-commerce CFO, according to Christian & Timbers...
- Joseph McCafferty is an associate editor at CFO.
The lure of public markets can pro...
- In case you've somehow missed it, the Securities and Exchange Commission has declared...
- * Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Beijing top the list of most-expensive cities in the world, a...
- A typical PC might have dozens of software packages installed: device drivers, utilit...
- When The Goldman Sachs Group LP agrees to underwrite an IPO, often one of its first s...
- The Jury Returns
Thank you for your article "Guilty As Charged" (April). Unfortunat...
- Before Tyco International Ltd. makes a big acquisition, it has executive search firm ...
- S.L., Mintz is CFO's New York bureau chief.
Gentler treatment by credit-rating agen...
- The spring line at Ann Taylor Stores Corp. includes new CFO Barry Erdos. The former C...
- The prospect of a fat federal surplus has softened hard congressional attitudes towar...
- The inventory revolution rages on, especially in high-tech manufacturing, where turns...
- Stephen Barr is senior contributing editor of CFO.
Audit committees may not be as b...
- Sure, it's not as big as winning an Oscar, but Miramax Films's Talk Media division is...
- The Value of The Intangible
As a management consultant to information technology (I...
- When Lucent Technologies recently announced it would take a $1.3 billion gain from it...
- Roberta Reynes is a freelance financial writer
Troubled times in foreign lands have...
- In a sample of large and midsized employers, 46% had a health management program in p...
- CFO has dedicated a mini-site to The CFO Excellence Awards--the first national honors...
- It isn't every day that a taxpayer can make the Internal Revenue Service back off a p...
- The CFO post at Allstate Corp. is changing hands. John L. Carl was named the new fin...
- In "Between the Lines" (March), we neglected to put in the full name of a company men...
- Warren Edwards, SVP of finance at Affiliated Computer Services Inc., learned an impor...
- Unexpected earnings slumps are the source of many a financial nightmare. But there's ...
- Brian O'Connell is a freelance writer based in Framingham, Massachusetts. Additional ...
- Michael O'Neill became the latest executive to defect from BankAmerica Corp. since it...
- In the old days-say, two years ago-when a corporation borrowed in the syndicated loan...
- Joseph McCafferty is an associate editor at CFO.
Reverse mergers are making a comeb...
- Reid Johnson stepped down as SVP and CFO of Venator Group Inc. after the New York-bas...
- The Internet is fast becoming a significant medium for companies to find investors in...
- Roy Harris is a senior editor at CFO.
Can an outspoken female CFO with no aerospace...
- Just a few weeks into his new job as CFO of Marvel Enterprises Inc. Robert Hull was c...
- Short sentences. Active voice. Everyday language. Call them the new mantras of the Se...
- Stephen Barr is senior contributing editor of CFO.
The former CFO and CEO of Califo...
- It's not every day an analyst becomes the CFO of a company he once covered. But Jack ...
- With the recent controversy surrounding cash balance plans, many interested companies...
- Russ Banham is a contributing editor of CFO.
Understanding the skepticism about ent...
- The most frequently purchased voluntary benefits, according to a recent MetLife study...
- The CFO job can be a tightrope--between the push to be a business partner and the nee...
- Did Ace Communications pull a card from its sleeve when it announced third-quarter ea...
- Jeannie Mandelker is a freelance writer based in Montrose, New York.
401(k) partici...
- Starting salaries in finance and accounting are projected to rise by 4.7% in 1999, ac...
- Some states have a dubious track record when it comes to equitably taxing businesses ...
- Stephen Barr is senior contributing editor of CFO.
Fiscal discipline at the VHA has...
- Corporation contributed a larger percentage of their pretax profits to charity in 199...
- * The use of wireless telecommunications in the finance and accounting function is ex...
- WITH VERSION 7.0, MICROSOFT HUNTS FOR BIGGER DATABASE CUSTOMERS.
For years, the cor...
- A HOT SEAT IN CYBERSPACE. As the CFO of the high-flying Internet-portal company Lycos...
- Small and midsized companies that export or import via ocean carriers could face roug...
- Joseph McCafferty is an associate editor at CFO.
Perpetually on the verge of mullin...
- Maybe the chemistry just isn't there, because W.R. Grace & Co. is on the move, but it...
- When Delta Air Lines tapped Warren C. Jenson as CFO a year ago, the finance departmen...
- Lee Berton is a New York-based financial writer. Roy Harris is a senior editor at CFO...
- * Paul McDonald scooped up the CFO job at Friendly's Ice Cream Corp., based in Wilbra...
- Necessity is the mother of creative financing--just ask Nextel Communications. In its...
- A year ago, many healthcare companies were firing their CFOs for poor performance (se...
- The employee is wearing that nervous "about-to-give-notice" look. Then come the dread...
- Julie Carrick Dalton is a freelance writer based in Woburn, Massachusetts.
The hard...
- * Arrow Electronics Inc. is on target with its choice of Sam R. Leno as CFO. The form...
- * More than a third of employers with over 500 employees made changes to their prescr...
- Jeffrey Ubois writes on business and technology for CFO. Edward Teach is a senior edi...
- * Cellstar Corp. sent Evelyn Henry Miller a strong signal. The Carrollton, Tex., reta...
- A part from a cameo appearance by PriceWaterhouseCoopers partners at the Academy Awar...
- The corporate jet: decadent anachronism or efficiency tool? The number of U.S. compan...
- John J. Xenakis is technology editor of CFO.
Systems in the midrange accounting sof...
- Westvaco Corp. welcomed Helen Murphy into the fold. She was named SVP and CFO of the ...
- Know Thy Knowledge Strategy
Knowledge management has been called the most significa...
- * CFOs predict that wage and salary costs will increase 3% in 1999, according to a re...
- Ian Springsteel is a freelance writer in Boston.
An end to pooling-of-interest acco...
- Bradley K. Johnson got the short end at Lands' End Inc. The former SVP, CFO, and chie...
- With more than 700 Year 2000 (Y2K) lawsuits in the pre-filing stage, the millennium v...
- With concern growing in Washington, D.C., over business practices used solely to redu...
- * Pieter Van der Vorst proved he is compatible with Sybase Inc. The former corporate ...
- The 7 percent underwriting spread investment banks charge for midsized initial public...
- COMPANIES SCRAMBLE AS REPRICING DEADLINE PRECEDES EXPOSURE DRAFT.
Nothing like a ha...
- Robert Stowe England is a freelance writer based in Arlington, Virginia.
How compan...
- AN ACCOUNTANT'S ACCOUNTANT. Clarence A. Davis has an eye for the future. During seven...
- The golden years of five Hughes Aircraft Co. retirees could get a lot more golden if ...
- Stephen Barr is senior contributing editor of CEO.
Through well-planned, midsized m...
- FIRST TEAM, ALL-FINANCE. The NBA lockout is finally aver, and casual basketball fans ...
- * Colin Reed, CFO of Harrah's, was dealt a promotion to the newly formed Office of th...
- S.L. Mintz is New York bureau chief of CFO.
A Better Approach To Estimating KnowLed...
- Dina Dublon vaulted into the CFO position at Chase Manhattan Corp. She was formerly E...
- When a number of managed care companies announced recently that they were pulling out...
- Hilary Rosenberg is a freelance writer based in New York.
High stakes and fierce co...
- * Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. will unload Jeffrey E. Curtiss as Its CFO. The nati...
- * With funeral costs growing at three times the inflation rate, does funeral advice b...
- Kris Frieswick is special projects editor at CFO.
You thought reengineering was har...
- Hambrecht & Quist LLC welcomed Patrick J. Allen back to his post as CFO of the San Fr...
- John J. Xenakis is technology editor of CFO.
The latest high-end accounting systems...
- * Brian Steel is making his move to the presidential suite at On Command Corp. The fo...
- * Craig W. Logan will attempt to break the mold at Co-Mack Technology Inc. He was nam...
- Be accurate, but sparkle. Offer just the numbers, but make them dance So analysts and...
- Julie Carrick Dalton is a freelance business writer based in Woburn, Massachusetts.
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- It's up to Mark J. Miller to straighten out the downward slope of American Skiing Co....
- Companies spend huge sums insuring against catastrophe to physical property. Is there...
- Jennifer Kruger is a freelance writer based in Hoboken, New Jersey.
With mergers cr...
- * It's Robert Codd's job to build up Momentum Business Applications Inc., in Pleasant...
- In the tug of war between encouraging economic innovation and discouraging opportunis...
- The Internal Revenue Service doesn't receive many compliments, but it has become a cr...
- Ian Springsteel is a freelance writer based in Boston.
Will greater disclosure in t...
- Jim Douglas landed in the newly created COO position at World Airways Inc., based in ...
- * The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the median number of years U.S. workers...
- ROUTING TELEPHONE CALLS OVER DATA NETWORKS PROMISES MORE THAN CHEAP COMMUNICATION.
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- NEW KID ON THE BLOCK. After six CFOs in four years, Rent-A-Center Inc. is going with ...
- * Blair Caple will serve the Women's Tennis Association as its new CFO. He had been i...
- Companies have offered direct stock purchase plans (DSPPs) for some time but now they...
- Thanks to increasingly sophisticated time and attendance (T&A) systems that allow inp...
- SERVER-CENTRIC COMPUTING DOESN'T SOLVE ALL PC MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS.
There's more to ...
- Experts in the field of corporate breakups have long speculated that new spin-offs an...
- SERVICES AND SOFTWARE PROVIDERS ARE MAKING THE WEB SAFE FOR BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS AUCT...
- David S Gino, CFO of DuPont Photomask Inc
DuPont Photomask acquire 20 companies, an...
- The abundance of merget and-acquisition activity has put the sinisterly named "deadha...
- Stephen Barr is senior contributing editor of CFO
Was last year a record for merger...
- Simon Bougbey is a freelance writer based in New York.
New accounting rules could m...
- The 1998 REACH Award winners exemplify excellence in core finance operations.
They'...
- Michelle Celaner is a freelance writer in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Roy Harris is a...
- On October 26, 1998, the Department of Labor broke new ground by suing Time Warner In...
- Russ Banbam is a contributing editor of CFO.
A masterful reengineering effort Case ...
- Dennis Dammerman, long considered the right-hand man of General Electric Co CEO John ...
- WILL THE NEW UNIFYING CURRENCY HELP OR HINDER U.S. COMPANIES?
Some call it momentou...
- The computer giant deploys its core technical expertise on its own internal systems.
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- Thomas A Mutryn will pilot the finance office at US Airways Group Inc. He was named S...
- In a move e that may mark the beginning of a trend in international shareholder activ...
- Kris Frieswick is special projects editor at CFO.
Overhauling internal audit earns ...
- Give a hand to Thomas J Wilson He was recently promoted to president of Allstate Life...
- As we begin the countdown to the year 2000, much is uncertain. With 40 percent of the...
- Companies seeking to familiarize their employees with Stern Stewart & Co 's economic ...
- Bronwyn Fryer is a freelance writer based in Santa Cruz, California.
WITH 2000 A YE...
- Andrew P Hyde is trading in his floppies for a surfboard. The former VP and CFO of Mi...
- Answers to Excess
Please allow me to correct some of the errors you published about...
- Should the bar be raised to meet a higher standard for the award of punitive damages ...
- Joseph McCafferty is an associate editor at CFO
Why health care CFOs have the tough...
- There's a new face at Revlon Inc. Irwin Engelman was recently named vice chairman and...
- Our award-winning business and financial Web site now features a new discussion group...
- IS YOUR TRAVEL BUDGET TOO HIGH? TRY VIRTUAL MEETINGS
Software for conducting virtua...
- Jeffrey Zygmont writes on business and technology from Salem, New Hampshire
HOW CAN...
- At a time of huge layoffs for The Boeing Co., the Seattle-based aircraft manufacturer...
- By now, you've probably seen the television ads by the big computer maker. The overse...
- A11 work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, and if your favorite nerd used to hang o...
- Russ Banham is a writer based in Missoula, Montana.
Under the leadership of CFO Joh...
- Turbulent markets are creating a chilly capital environment for some small growth com...
- Administering employee benefits is an increasingly complicated challenge, and at smal...
- Only months into the high-profile mergers that created Citigroup Inc. and BankAmerica...
- The SEC has come out swinging. With chairman Arthur Levitt's speech on earnings manag...
- The Securities and Exchange Commission, for the first time, has defined what constitu...
- Robert Stowe England is a freelance writer based in Arlington, Virginia.
Federal-Mo...
- Just before it merged with Bank of America, NationsBank Corp. put a spin on its pensi...
- After four years of study, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a majo...
- Margaret Milner Richardson is currently a partner with Ernst & Young LLP She served a...
- Cellular phones are getting cheaper to use, hut what if you're in the middle of the S...
- Niles Howard. Formerly on editor at Money and Business Month magazines, he is preside...
- What do you do when you're a small medical-devices company looking to go public, but ...
- Losing the hard disk is bad enough if your laptop computer is stolen, but you don't h...
- For the ultimate road warrior, Mobile Office Outfitter (800-4263453 or 925-485-5630; ...
- The U.S. Supreme Court this summer handed down several rulings that, for the first ti...
- The Cassiopeia E-10, a new hand-held computer from Casio Inc. ($399; www.casio.com), ...
- Jeannie Mandelker is a freelance writer based in Montrose, New York.
More 401(k) pl...
- The board of the New York Stock Exchange has approved yet another proposal easing the...
- Now that you've gotten used to the fact that CDs have replaced your LPs, it's time t...
- Edward Teach is a senior editor at CFO.
The medical-supplies distributor is winning...
- Pulling the ripcord on golden parachutes can be an expensive decision for some execut...
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- Linda Corman is a freelance writer in New York.
THE 1998 COMPENSATION SURVEY
In t...
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Exec-U-Net is another online job search and career site. Although...
- Jeannie Mandelker is a freelance writer based in Montrose, New York.
With banks foc...
- Here's another twist to insider trading laws, courtesy of a California federal appeal...
- Bronwyn Fryer is a freelance writer based in Santa Cruz, California.
Newfangled sof...
- Average completion of IT projects on time, on budget
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- Excite Inc. recently paid $96 million to Netscape in a two-year Internet-access deal,...
- To deal with major changes in its assets, federal tax law, and the business climate, ...
- Stephen Barr is a CFO contributing editor.
Why Triple B to this building-materials ...
- It's official--the good times are here. Or at least they were last payday. Our latest...
- Has this year's IRS Restructuring and Reform Act created a more flexible Internal Rev...
- As readers know administering Form 1099s can be a huge headache. Generally, a form mu...
- Michelle Celarier is a freelance writer in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
Old environm...
- Sue 'em all and let the courts sort it out. That appears to be the motto of a former ...
- As sales force automation software becomes more sophisticated, an increasingly import...