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• Critics Pan New Financial Statements

  BNET - 2009-04-24

  A long-planned overhaul of financial statements gets a rough reception from preparers at its initial unveiling, particularly from banks. Meanwhile, a survey says a large majority of CFOs don't even know about the proposal. It's been called the most dramatic overhaul of financial statements since the cash flow statement was...

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• Huge Changes In Store For Financial Statements

  BNET - 2009-01-30

  A balance sheet that doesn't balance? Financing and operating classifications that depend on your company type? A gulp cash-basis income statement? Well, not quite. But accounting standards-setters are online and on the road urging investors and companies to weigh in now on a proposal to radically alter financial statements. And...

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• Revenue Recognition: Barter Transactions

  BNET - 2006-06-02

  Should exchanges or barter (non-monetary exchanges, that is no cash or cash equivalents are exchanged) transactions of products or services be recorded as revenues and expenses? The basic issue is whether the earnings process has been completed. Measurement is the next issue: Should revenue and expense be recognized at the...

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• Selling Finance: How Sales Teams Are Learning the Finer Points of Revenue Recognition

  BNET - 2006-05-08

  Educating salespeople on acceptable structures is fast becoming a necessity as regulators crack down on questionable sales practices and irregularities in booking revenue. CA, for example, has been embroiled in an accounting scandal that involved improper booking of $2.2 billion in revenue. Six executives, including the former head of worldwide...

  Tags: Revenue, CFO Publishing Corp., Qwest Communications Inc., Sales Team, Sales Strategy, Operational Accounting, Revenue Recognition, Sales Force Management, Sales, Finance, Financial Services

• Tipping Point for Cash-Balance Plans?

  BNET - 2006-04-18

  The cash-balance plan is a "Hybrid" that's re-emerging as a middle ground between defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans. Legally it's a DB plan (the employer, not the employee, takes on the financial risk of achieving a preset benefit), but it's structured like a DC plan (somewhat like a 401k, it features...

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• IRS Eyeing Executive Pay

  BNET - 2006-04-10

  The Securities and Exchange Commission isn't the only regulator taking a closer look at executive compensation. The Internal Revenue Service will be scrutinizing executive pay this tax season too, as part of its continuing effort to force more companies to treat fringe benefits as wages for income and employment tax...

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• The People Who Count: With Too Few Accountants to Go Around, Companies Are Grabbing People Wherever They Can Find Them

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  Even though enrollment in accounting programs has risen over the past few years, the demand for CPAs currently outstrips supply by as much as 20 percent, and relief appears to be a long way off. If there is one bright spot, it may be that the turnover rates at public...

  Tags: Accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Finance

• View From Asia: India Won't Benefit Fully From the Amazing Productivity of Its Companies Unless It Builds a Better Infrastructure for Business

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  India's companies surpass Chinese enterprises in productivity, although most of that productivity is being exported, via the service sector, to distant markets. According to a UBS report, between 1998 and 2003 the average return on capital employed for an Indian firm was 17 percent. China's was 11 percent. India outpaces...

  Tags: India, CFO Publishing Corp., Benefits, Investment, Strategy, Human Resources, Finance, Management

• Calming the Waters: What Happens When the CEO and CFO Just Don't Get Along?

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  A study by executive recruiting firm Korn/Ferry International, which was based on data collected on some 500,000 executives, suggests that CFOs may find chief executives to be stubborn, arrogant, and manipulative, while CEOs may find finance chiefs to be rigid and risk-averse. So it's no wonder that so many finance...

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• Sprucing Up the 401(k): With Other Retirement Vehicles in Dire Shape, Plan Sponsors Are Rethinking Their Defined-Contribution Offerings

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  Social Security is projected to become insolvent in 2041, according to its trustees. Traditional pension plans are terminated, frozen, or underfunded with increasing regularity. That leaves the 401k plan to carry the bulk of the retirement load. The trouble is, though, plenty of research suggests that 401k plans, as they...

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