Stories Collection
- The explosion in online commerce has profoundly changed the U.S. business landscape. ...
- Barry W. Hall is in vogue as the new EVP of finance and CFO of Styleclick.com Inc., i...
- SIX MONTHS AFTER Y2K becomes a quaint memory in the minds of most Americans, the majo...
- The budgeting software arena is dominated by the likes of Hyperion, Comshare, and Ada...
- From aerospace to wholesalers, effective tax rates exert significant impact on earnin...
- As reported in Grapevine in September, Samuel Siegel, currently CFO at Nucor Corp., w...
- The fast pace of mergers and acquisitions of late seems to have overwhelmed a critica...
- MANY CORPORATIONS have many different databases scattered around, from a variety of v...
- Extranets are transforming the ways that companies work.
THREE YEARS AGO, Gary Leni...
- A fantasy sequence for a veteran finance chief: after many years of loyal service, yo...
- IN SEPTEMBER, boutique investment bank Cruttenden Roth, in Newport Beach, Calif., ann...
- IF YOU'RE SETTING UP an E-commerce Web site, sooner or later you'll have to solve the...
- In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, some hard lessons surface about banking in...
- After less than a year on the job, Lockheed Martin Corp. CFO Phil Duke has been repla...
- More companies with "new economy businesses review whether creating tracking-stocks m...
- James E. Healey must be one sharp cookie. That's what the board of directors at Nabis...
- ADMIT IT: WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW how much your competitors pay in taxes? With assi...
- A HOT ECONOMY and a high bond default rate? Defaults are increasing to a surprising l...
- Phelps Dodge attempts a hostile merger with two companies at once.
Digging in mount...
- Corporations and insurers are squaring off in a potentially ugly, and costly, battle ...
- Helen Murphy will be sharing helpful finance hints at the corporate office of Martha ...
- A NEW STUDY from John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. and the National Council on A...
- THE VIACOM OFFER HAS WALL STREET ABUZZ. IS CBS WORTH MORE?
NOW THAT THE INITIAL hyp...
- A two-year-old stock exchange in Frankfurt could give U.S. high-tech companies an inr...
- Cost-U-Less Inc., based in Bellevue, Wash., took some in-house inventory and came up ...
- Niles Howard. Formerly an editor at Money and Business Month magazines, he is preside...
- EDWARD TEACH (EDTEACH@ CFOPUB.COM) IS A SENIOR EDITOR AT CEO.
At Microsoft, leverag...
- Nothing is sacred at AlliedSignal, where training involves constant reinvention.
IN...
- There are few finance jobs more visible or more demanding than being CFO of Internet ...
- It's a new chapter in the tense story of free enterprise versus auditor independence....
- THE FORCE BEHIND a successful acquisition often is inscrutable. Was the acquired comp...
- STEPHEN BARR IS SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF CFO.
Doing the right deals at Marsh &...
- JINNY ST. GOAR IS A FREELANCE WRITER BASED IN NEW YORK.
A boom in "top hat" deferre...
- Waste Management Inc. is hoping to clean up its act, the impetus behind recent manage...
- WHEN REEBOK INTERNATIONAL LTD., International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF), and Te...
- ROY HARRIS (ROYHARRIS@CFOPUB.COM) IS A SENIOR EDITOR AT CFO.
The force behind the d...
- EDWARD TEACH (EDTEACH@CFOPUB.COM) Is A SENIOR EDITORAT CFO.
internet commerce softw...
- THE GROWTH in corporate-sponsored day care reflects tougher competition for the best ...
- How Gulfstream Aerospace's financial pilot helped its top line take off.
DESPITE GR...
- RONALD FINK (RONFINK@CFOPUB.COM) IS A SENIOR EDITOR AT CFO.
A new accounting propos...
- Life sure is sweet for Mark Q. Huggins. The former CFO of Van Camp Sea Food Co. is as...
- A RULING BY an international trade group could derail a domestic tax break that saves...
- RUSS BANHAM IS A CFO CONTRIBUTING EDITOR.
How Enron financed its amazing transforma...
- GEORGE DONNELLY (GEORGEDONNELLY@CFOPUB.COM) IS ASSOCIATE EDITOR AT CFO.
If the SEC ...
- In a recent Robert Half survey, 1,400 CFOs were asked: How many job changes in a 10-y...
- Finance-function costs declined to 1.2% of revenue in 1999 (down from 2.2% in 1988), ...
- On the eve of deregulation., Carolina Power & Light plugs away at its cost structure,...
- KRIS FRIESWICK (KRISFREIESWICK@ CFOPUB.COM) IS STAFF WRITER AT CFO.
Replacing worke...
- In a rare action that could send a chill through the accounting profession, the Secur...
- LORI CALABRO (LORICALABRO@CFOPUB.COM IS DEPUTY EDITOR OF CFO.
Now five years into i...
- To Wall Street, the financial success of Mirage Resorts Inc. over the past few years ...
- REMEMBER THE BOOK "IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE," by Tom Peters? A blockbuster when first ...
- JOHN J. XENAKIS IS TECHNOLOGY EDITOR OF CFO.
A new language for the Web will transf...
- Planning to win has produced outstanding financial results at Wal-Mart.
JOHN B. MEN...
- Universal Pictures has a new lead for the corporate office. Frederick Huntsberry star...
- With a Little Help From His Friends
I ENJOYED YOUR ARTICLE ON The Hard Rock Cafe an...
- REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUSTS (REITs) are one of the few publicly traded sectors that...
- JOHN THACKRAY IS A NEW YORK-BASED FINANCIAL WRITER.
Some see both longer-term inves...
- New measurement tools at The Vanguard Group offer insight into its remarkable success...
- In our September Grapevine story "Look before You Leap," we misidentified an executiv...
- Residents of Connecticut ($16,139), New Jersey ($13,785), and New York ($13,420) pay ...
- Winners Of The 1999 CFO Excellence Awards
IT STANDS TO REASON THAT EXCELLENT COMpan...
- After an earnings disappointment, ADC Telecommunications makes a Wall Street connecti...
- Although it's buried in a controversial tax measure, a proposal to make permanent the...
- CORPORATE INTERESTS have been lobbying for repeal of the alternative minimum tax (AMT...
- KRIS FRIESWICK IS SPECIAL-PROJECTS EDITOR FOR CEO.
Can the Hard Rock Cafe brand, ke...
- Samuel Siegel no longer remembers what the argument was about, but the hard-driving v...
- THOSE INSANE INTERNET-company valuations have created quite a buzz on Wall Street of ...
- Imagine government behaving like a corporation. The Governmental Accounting Standards...
- WORRIED ABOUT KEEPING UP WITH THE DOT-COMES? TOP BUSINESS STRATEGIST ADRIAN SLYWOTZKY...
- LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP When Internet stocks started to slide in late July and early Aug...
- IN A CFO INTERVIEW THIS MONTH ("Guru of the New Economy," page 76), Adrian Slywotzky ...
- Twenty-one percent of employers provide medical benefits to executives in addition to...
- Business travelers are finding bargains on the Web--to the dismay of corporate travel...
- BRONWYN FRYER, A FREELANCE WRITER IN SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, IS A FREQUENT CONTRIBUTO...
- Getting IT Involved
YOUR ARTICLE "DEAL BREAKER" (August) hit at the heart of issues...
- Business interests are howling over proposed regulations that would disqualify compan...
- "We're a technology company, and that's why we need to be a leader in using the Inter...
- S.L. MINTZ (STEVENMINTZ@CFOPUB.COM) IS NEW YORK BUREAU CHIEF AT CFO.
DESPITE REFORM...
- Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have narrowed the definition of disability under ...
- ACCORDING TO RECENT press reports, some investment banks have been previewing their a...
- THE MANAGEMENT OF SALES commissions and other variable compensation is becoming an in...
- ROBERT STOWE ENGLAND IS A FREELANCE WRITER BASED IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.
Companies ...
- WHEN THE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE petitioned the Treasury Department to be allowed t...
- E-mail is used most often in company communications say 90% of employees. But only 55...
- The new release of Microsoft Corp.'s office productivity software, Microsoft Office 2...
- ROY HARRIS (ROYHARRIS@CFOPUB.COM) IS A SENIOR EDITOR AT CEO.
When partnerships sink...
- More than half (58%) of defined contribution plans added investment options in the pa...
- Recent Supreme Court rulings in sexual harassment cases are also affecting racial har...
- S.L. MINTZ (STEVENMINTZ@CFOPUB.COM) IS CFO's NEW YORK BUREAU CHIEF.
How Integrated ...
- IAN SPRINGSTEEL IS A FREELANCE WRITER IN WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
Business and govern...
- After a change of heart, the New York Stock Exchange is pushing the Securities and Ex...
- A RECENT FEDERAL APPEALS COURT decision could make it easier for companies to defend ...
- STEPHEN BARR IS SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR AT CEO.
WHAT THE SEC SHOULD REALLY DO AB...
- Once upon a time, Dan Lauer, a former career banker with Royal Banks of Missouri, hit...
- A survey of the project-management industry by Robbin-Gioia revealed that 90% of resp...
- COMPAQ COMPUTER CORP.'S search for a CEO and a CFO led, predictably enough, to the se...
- GEORGE DONNELLY [GEORGEDONNELLY@CFOPUB.COM] IS ASSOCIATE EDITOR AT CFO.
CISCO AND L...
- On the same day that Pier 1 Imports Inc. announced that it would report lower-than-ex...
- IN JULY, the Treasury Department unveiled a revised, softened set of proposals to qua...
- Executives in South Africa and Canada lead the world in stockholder awareness, accord...
- Niles Howard. Formerly an editor at Money and Business Month magazines, he is preside...
- Heidi Kunz has fallen into the Gap Inc. as CFO. She had been CFO of ITT Industries In...
- It's not that the IRS doesn't like sale leasebacks, but it definitely takes umbrage t...
- Niles Howard. Formerly an editor at Money and Business Month magazines, he is preside...
- AUF WIEDERSEHEN!
Richard H. Daniel turned down a hefty retention bonus and salary f...
- AT THIS POINT IN ITS HISTORY, the peculiar challenge facing Microsoft is how to convi...
- OUTSOURCING CAN LOWER COSTS, reduce personnel hassle, and now, through Web technology...
- RUSS BANHAM IS A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF CFO.
SECRETS FROM THE FRONT LINES IN THE ST...
- How seriously are large media companies taking their Internet strategies? Seriously e...
- Individual Access To The Holy Grail
THE WHOLE WORLD Is Listening" (Techwatch, June)...
- EDWARD TEACH (EDTEACH@CFORPUB.COM) IS A SENIOR EDITOR OF CEO.
IF THE COMPUTER SYSTE...
- One more financial service, credit ratings, has found a place for itself on the Inter...
- AS PET-FOOD GIANT Ralston Purina Co. prepares to spin off its Eveready Battery Co., o...
- ROBERT STOWE ENGLAND IS A FREELANCE WRITER IN ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA.
INTEGRATING 401(...
- WHEN TABITHA ZANE, vice president of investor relations at Applied Digital Solutions ...
- Tired of paying big bucks for directory assistance that too often dispenses inaccurat...
- ENID TSUI IS A SENIOR REPORTER AT CFO ASIA.
BUSINESS TRAVELERS ARE FLOCKING TO A NE...
- IN A DECISION THAT MAY soften the impact of the demise of pooling-of-interest account...
- E-mail filtering software promises to thwart viruses, spam, and offensive content.
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- Weather-related derivatives protect companies from Mother Nature' s toll on earnings....
- CONFIRMING THAT COMPANIES are feeling the need to be more generous and flexible with ...
- IAN SPRINGSTEEL IS A FREELANCE WRITER IN WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
When tax-based tran...
- A newly launched Web site is giving pension plan sponsors something that they get pre...
- If you want to automate your company's expense reporting but find that enterprise T&E...
- PITY THE POOR EURO. Introduced with fanfare in January, the euro has sagged since its...
- S.L. MINTZ (STEVENMINTZ@CFOPUB.COM) IS CFO's NEW YORK BUREAU CHIEF.
IMS Health's sp...
- PRIVACY LEGISLATION geared at safeguarding access to medical records may undermine em...
- RONALD FINK (RONALDFINK@CFOPUB.COM) IS A SENIOR EDITOR OF CEO.
BEHIND EVERY NEWS-MA...
- Tough times call for desperate measures. That why Riverside National Bank of Florida ...
- NEWS OF RISING DEFAULT RATES and tightening credit has rattled an already edgy junk-b...
- CFOs EXPECT NONTRADITIONAL FINANCE ISSUES to take up 37% of senior accountants' time ...
- DO YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY power supply? Are you going to close your December books ear...
- STEPHEN BARR IS SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF CFO.
Setting higher hurdles for stock...
- In recent TV ads, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Kentucky Fried Chicken have been marketin...
- The largest U.S. companies set aside a record 13.2% of stock for option grants in 199...
- BEWARE THE FREE PROMOTIONAL EURO CALCULATORS--or inexpensive ones. They don't always ...
- JOSEPH MCCAFFERTY (JOSEPHMCCAFFERTY@CFOPUB.COM) IS AN ASSOCIATE EDITOR AT CEO.
Secu...
- WHICH IS THE RIGHT ONE, BABY? CFOs always take risks when they refer to specific earn...
- WHEN AT&T CORP. ACQUIRED Tele- Communications Inc. last year, the $54 billion deal ca...
- THE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING Standards Board's recent crackdown on repricing stock option...
- It's one thing to fix a company's year 2000 problems--it's another thing to fix the f...
- At first, it appeared that John Devine, CFO of Ford Motor Co. since 1994, would survi...
- THE TYPICAL FINANCE ORGANIZATION has 152 FTEs per billion dollars of revenue, accordi...
- Nearly 90% of companies surveyed on sexual harassment notices provide employee traini...
- THE MILLENNIUM BUG isn't just for mainframes. Many desktop machines and network serv...
- A couple of years ago, we applauded John Menzer's commitment to top-line growth at Wa...
- IF CONGRESS HAS ITS WAY, companies that are converting their traditional pension plan...
- A survey sponsered by the Profit Sharing/401 (K) Council of America indicates that on...
- ROY HARRIS (ROYHARRIS@CFOPUB.COM) IS A SENIOR EDITOR AT CFO.
If you love a deal, le...
- The CFO of Harnischfeger Industries Inc. was handed his walking papers. Francis M. Co...
- WHEN COMPAQ CEO ECKHARD PFEIFFER LEFT, SO did his CFO, Earl L. Mason. When Harnischfe...
- The revenge of Microsoft's temporary workforce has sparked a jolt of fear in the hear...
- INSURANCE FOR PATENTS, trademarks, and copyrights. What's next? Now there's a policy ...
- STEPHEN BARR IS SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF CFO.
How David Shedlarz Challenges Th...
- Iridium LLC is hoping that Leo Mondale can launch the company into the black. Lie was...
- THE INTERNET will be the conduit for booking 32% of the business travel market by 200...
- Who says the Financial Accounting Standards Board doesn't have a heart? The board pro...
- JULIE CARRICK DALTON IS A FREELANCE WRITER BASED IN WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTS.
Characte...
- A Failure To Communicate
ARTICLES LIKE "The Phantom Menace" (June), which highlight...
- IT SOUNDS LIKE a new financial instrument that's too good to be true: a convertible b...
- TOP SECTORS FOR WORLDWIDE M&A activity in the 1st quarter were automotive ($19 billio...
- S.L. MINTZ (STEVENMINTZ@CFOPUB.COM) IS CFO's NEW YORK BUREAU CHIEF.
WINNERS SWEAT T...
- American WaterWorks Service Co. welcomed Ellen C. Wolf to the management pipeline. Th...
- In our June story "Custom Suits," one of the subjects is misidentified in a photo cap...
- Almost a third of companies with sales between $75 million and $500 million expect be...
- IF IT'S TRUE THAT PRECEPTION creates reality, then what is one to make of a recent po...
- CALCULATING THE RESULTS
The management of working capital combines two measures, we...
- Peter D. Hancock vaulted into the CEO position at J.P. Morgan & Co. in New York He as...
- Adding to evidence that stock splits have become fashionable, Gap Inc., Abercromble &...
- It's suddenly much more difficult for the tiniest companies to issue stock. That's be...
- JINNY ST. GOAR IS A FREELANCE WRITER BASED IN NEW YORK.
The credit crunch was suppo...
- Frank W. Coffey doesn't expect his new job to be a piece of cake. He was recently nam...
- PLATINUM SOFTWARE CORP., a leading supplier of midrange accounting software, has chan...
- MOVIN' ON UP
Xerox Corp. sorted out its succession picture when it named Rick Thoma...
- FUNNY HOW THE WORDS FOR AN ENORMOUS CHANGE tend to shrink--and then vanish--as the ne...
- A DRAFT OF THE FIRST nationwide ergonomics standard is generating an outcry from indu...
- RONALD FINK IS A SENIOR EDITOR AT CFO.
Will a new accounting rule aimed at off-bala...
- Doggedly Pursuing Audit Fraud
YOUR ARTICLE "WATCHDOGS OR Lap dogs?" (May) had the s...
- WHAT'S YOUR TAX FANTASY? House Ways and Means Committee chairman Bill Archer's (R-Tex...
- GEORGE DONNELLY IS AN ASSOCIATE EDITOR AT CEO.
HOW INTERNET CFOS ARE CHANGING THE R...
- Following the Financial Accounting Standards Board's decision in April to strike the ...
- When PNI started publishing more than just newspapers, it needed a way to identify an...
- IN A RECENT SERIES of no-action letters, the Securities and Exchange Commission ruled...
- STEPHEN BARR TS SENIOR CONTRIBUTING EDITOR AT CFQ; ROY HARRIS IS A SENIOR EDITOR.
M...
- WHEN LONNIE BROWN BECAME a temporary chief financial officer last September, he sudde...
- Economic Value Added (EVA) advocates have long counseled that stock buybacks are a mo...
- BRONWYN FRYER IS A FREELANCE WRITER BASED IN SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA.
THE HOTTEST MA...
- THE GROWTH OF shareholder activism has persuaded more corporate boards to write presc...
- ONEMAN'S TRASH is another man's gold mine. Rather than tempt fate and throw sensitive...
- JOHN P. MELLO JR. IS A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO CFO.
ONCE A FRINGE APPLICATION, T&E E...
- AUDITING FEES are expected to rise when the Securities and Exchange Commission tighte...
- Internet technology changes the earnings call from an insider's chat to a worldwide b...
- IAN SPRINGSTEEL IS A FREE-LANCE WRITER IN WESTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
Critics complain t...
- Corporate debt is hot. AT&T issued $8 billion in bands in March, a record-setting iss...
- IN THE LATE 1980s and early '90s, electronic data interchange (EDT) earned a reputati...
- STEVE BERGSMAR IS A FREELANCE WRITER IN MESA, ARIZONA.
If you're counting on the In...
- WILL THE BAR-CODE enforcer conquer the manufacturing world? The Lemelson Foundation P...
- Two commonly used application-development tools--Seagate Crystal Reports and Microsof...