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- Making Mergers Work
- In 1999, Corporate Mergers in the United States alone totaled a staggering $3.44 trillion and despite the well-publicized, much-analyzed fact that many of these mergers - up to 70%, according to some estimates - failed to create value. thus it seems clear that the end is not yet in...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Rebuilding Investor Confidence,
- The article shares that Sarbanes-Oxley has been a very good piece of legislation. There is always the risk that regulations hastily drawn up in the heat of scandal announcements may overreach or may generate unplanned consequences. That does not seem to be the case with this law. It also discusses...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- FASB Adds Projects to Its Agenda on Employee Stock Options and Pensions
- Responding to requests from investors, financial analysts and other users of financial information, the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB have added to its agenda two projects that will seek to improve the accounting and disclosures relating to stock-based compensation and pension costs. The Board plans to start deliberating the key...
- White papers 2003-03-12
- Desperately Seeking Synergy
- Mergers and acquisitions are happening at a frenetic pace. However, the question, which arises, is do all the corporate meldings work happily ever after? Companies are trying to buy their way to strategic growth with bigger acquisition premiums and more cross-border deals. An acquisition premium is the amount an acquiring...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Snaring A Suitor
- With the exception of hostile mergers, every acquisition requires a willing seller. Yet remarkably, most sellers do not approach the sale of their business with anywhere near the sense of strategy that buyers do. Smaller companies in particular tend to look at a sale only as an option to unload...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- FASB Business Combinations and Intangible Assets Project Analysis
- A Yet there are often compelling reasons for privately held businesses to obtain them, too. Armed with a fairness opinion, a company's senior management and board of directors can make better- informed decisions about a change-of-control transaction and avoid possible turmoil down the road. The boards of private companies are...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Reengineering Revisited
- In recent times, Business Process Reengineering BPR has dominated the thinking of corporate executives. BPR is seen as the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance. The paper mulls over the thought that BPR is not the panacea for...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Maximizing The Value Of A Co-Sourcing Relationship
- From the executive summary: ‘The thorny combination of an uncertain, if promising, economic recovery and growing regulatory demands is exerting contradictory pressures on companies. These demands can lessen the appeal of outsourcing, which has risks that tend to be more difficult to identify and mitigate. There is a solution to...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- Myths And Realities Of Sarbanes-Oxley
- Recent corporate scandals necessitated the formulation and passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The same seeks to redefine and streamline corporate accounting practices and Corporate Governance frameworks in organizations. However, some myths prevail regarding a particular Section of the Act. The paper examines the same.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Offshoring' Drive For Savings Accelerates
- From the executive summary: ‘Multishoring essentially means outsourcing work to more than one offshore location, and it is accelerating at the largest multinationals. It is not just technology functions like software development that are being sent overseas, moreover, but a whole raft of business processes like customer service and financial...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Shared Services, Shared Opportunities
- Outsourcing is the strategy in which raw materials or intermediate products in the production cycle are procured by an organization from outside agencies. It involves work done for a company by people other than the company's full-time employees. The outsourcing strategy gives rise to the paradigm of shared-services. This paradigm...
- White papers 2003-07-01
- All's Not Fair In Love And Mergers
- From the executive summary: ‘A fairness opinion affirming that a merger or sale transaction is financially fair to a company's shareholders is an important but frequently overlooked risk management technique. Such opinions are required in deals involving public companies. Yet there are often compelling reasons for privately held businesses to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The M&A Game Challenge
- The paper discusses the interventions issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board FASB regarding business combinations and acquisitions. The new rules do away with pooling of interests. The new rules seek to redefine domestic and international merger activity. They pave the way for smooth provision of information by the companies...
- White papers 2003-01-01
Additional Resources
- Prudential Financial Reorganizes International Insurance Senior Management; Kazuo Maeda Named Country Head For Insurance Operations in Japan; Timothy Feige To Lead All International Insurance Operations Outside Japan
- NEWARK, N.J. -- Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU) announced today a reorganization of responsibilities between its two senior line executives in its International Insurance business: Kazuo Maeda, senior vice president, Prudential International Insurance and president and CEO of Prudential International Insurance Life Planner Operations; and Timothy Feige, senior vice president, Prudential...
- Research articles 2006-06-20
- Wells Fargo Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptWells Fargo & Co. WFC Q2 2007 Earnings Call July 17, 2007 8:00 am ET Executives Bob Strickland - SVP & IR Howard Atkins - Sr. EVP & CFO Presentation Bob Strickland Hello, this is Bob Strickland. Thank you for calling into the Wells Fargo Second Quarter...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-17
- How Operations Research Drives Success at P&G
- Operations research isn't just geek science at P&G. It's an integral part of the company's marketing, sales and supply chain. ...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Business Leaders to Outline Corporate Responses to Global Crises at WRI's Sustainable Enterprise Summit
- An estimated 200 executives from leading US and international corporations will attend. Todd S. Thomson, executive vice president for finance, operations and strategy and chief financial officer of Citigroup Inc., will deliver the keynote address at 4:15 An estimated 200 executives from leading US and international corporations will attend. Todd...
- Research articles 2004-03-16
- Endeavour International Corporation Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call ExcerptEndeavour International Corporation END Q4 2007 Earnings Call March 12, 2008, 10:00 am ET Executives William Bill L. Transier – Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President Bruce H. Stover – Executive Vice President, Operations and Business Development J. Michael Kirksey - Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer John...
- Earnings calls 2008-03-12
- Halliburton Company Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call Excerpt Halliburton Company HAL Q1 2009 Earnings Call April 20, 2009 9:00 am ET Executives Christian Garcia - Vice President, Investor Relations Dave Lesar - Chief Executive Officer Mark McCollum - Chief Financial Officer Tim Probert - Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development Analysts...
- Earnings calls 2009-04-20
- Skechers USA Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Earnings Call Excerpt Skechers USA Inc. SKX Q3 2008 Earnings Call October 22, 2008 4:30 pm ET Executives Andrew Greenebaum - Integrated Corporation Relations David Weinberg - Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President & Director Frederick Schneider - Chief Financial Officer Analysts Chris Svezia - Susquehanna Financial...
- Earnings calls 2008-10-22
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