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Will Credit Derivatives Encourage More Lending, or Will They Harm the Interests of Borrowers?
This paper represents an article about conflicting interest whether credit derivatives will encourage more lending or will it harm the interest of the borrowers because credit derivative market is not as deep or transparent as secondary bond market. It also has reflected the flip side of buying derivatives.
Tags: Financial services, CFO Publishing Corp., derivatives, borrower, bond
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Revenue Recognition: Barter Transactions
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...
Tags: Operational accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., revenue recognition, revenue
White papers 2006-06-02
Sarbox Has Widespread Impact on Revenue Recognition Policies
One of the primary goals of Sarbanes-Oxley Sarbox is to ensure that companies are reporting accurate revenue numbers. Consequently, revenue recognition policies have been under particular scrutiny. A survey of 400 public and private companies found that more than half (55%) of all public companies, have changed revenue recognition policies...
Tags: Operational accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., revenue recognition, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, survey
White papers 2006-06-02
Selling Finance: How Sales Teams Are Learning the Finer Points of Revenue Recognition
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: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Operational accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., Qwest Communications Inc., revenue recognition, sales, revenue, finance, accounting
White papers 2006-05-08
Tipping Point for Cash-Balance Plans?
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...
Tags: 401(k), Retirement plans, Benefits, CFO Publishing Corp., pension plan, 401(k) plan, benefit, financial
White papers 2006-04-18
HIPAA e-Rule Surprises Small Businesses
Issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS, the HIPAA Security Rule mandates that companies with small health plans - defined as those with less than $5 million in group medical claims - will have to comply with 17 standards, and at least half of the 41...
Tags: Regulatory compliance, Quality, Regulations, CFO Publishing Corp., U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HIPAA, standards, small business, health care, security
White papers 2006-04-20
IRS Eyeing Executive Pay
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...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Executive Compensation, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2006-04-10
States to Employers: Pay Up
Companies that don't provide health-care insurance could soon get a wake-up call. That's because an increasing number of states - 23 at recent count, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures - are considering so-called pay-or-play bills that would force employers either to provide some coverage or pay a...
Tags: Vertical industries, CFO Publishing Corp., health care
White papers 2006-04-01
As the Cycle Turns: It May Be Time to Start Paying More Attention to the Business Cycle
Most economic forecasters do not see recessions coming until it is too late. Their methods work when the economy is stable, but even the most complex econometric models are blind to sudden turns in the business cycle. Recognizing the difficulty of predicting the future, most companies no longer employ staff...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., forecasting, outsourcing
White papers 2006-04-01
Calming the Waters: What Happens When the CEO and CFO Just Don't Get Along?
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...
Tags: Financial accounting, CFO Publishing Corp., finance, CEO, job
White papers 2006-04-01
Overexposed
In a technical-advice memorandum, the Internal Revenue Service IRS states that transactions are taxable if the executive lends company shares to the entity that arranges the deal. As it turns out, these entities - banks or other financial institutions - typically sell the stock short to hedge their own exposure....
Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Financial services, CFO Publishing Corp., Internal Revenue Service, tax, bank, financial, stock
White papers 2006-04-01
View From Asia: India Won't Benefit Fully From the Amazing Productivity of Its Companies Unless It Builds a Better Infrastructure for Business
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: CFO Publishing Corp., India, China, strategy, benefit
White papers 2006-04-01
The People Who Count: With Too Few Accountants to Go Around, Companies Are Grabbing People Wherever They Can Find Them
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: Operational accounting, Financial services, CFO Publishing Corp., accounting, finance
White papers 2006-04-01
Not so Easily Replaced: The Notion That Long-Term Government Employees Are a Liability Is a Simplistic One, According to One Reader
The notion that long-term employees in the private sector are an asset and that long-term employees in the public sector are a liability reflects an extremely simplistic view of those sectors and the employees who work in them. It perpetuates the belief that government employees sit behind desks making life...
Tags: Asset management, CFO Publishing Corp., asset
White papers 2006-04-01
Sprucing Up the 401(k): With Other Retirement Vehicles in Dire Shape, Plan Sponsors Are Rethinking Their Defined-Contribution Offerings
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...
Tags: 401(k), Retirement plans, Investment, CFO Publishing Corp., 401(k) plan, pension plan, Social Security, job
White papers 2006-04-01
Managing Your "Greatest Asset": Talent-Management Software Can Add Consistency to Compensation Programs and Light a Fire Under "Laggards" in Your Workforce
Proxicom turned to a Web-based solution of its own: talent management technology from SuccessFactors. The San Mateo, California-based company is one of a growing number - others include Halogen Software, Authoria, Taleo, and Recruitmax - that are introducing sophisticated talent-management software that's much more user-friendly than in the years past.
Tags: Workforce management, CFO Publishing Corp., talent management, workforce, compensation, talent, asset, Web, software
White papers 2006-03-22
The Case Against Health Savings Accounts
Many CFOs see health savings accounts as a way to stanch the bleeding. But growing corporate interest in HSAs has been met by a growing backlash by critics and researchers. A creation of the 2003 Medicare act, HSAs do offer employers the hope of curbing their insurance expense. Under the...
Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, CFO Publishing Corp., Health Savings Account, health care, Medicare, insurance, worker
White papers 2006-03-17
Another Step for Small-Biz Health Bill
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted 11-9 in favor of a bill that would allow business and trade associations to band their members together to offer group health coverage on a national or regional basis. According to a press release by the nonprofit Foundation for Taxpayer and...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., patient, health care
White papers 2006-03-16
Help Wanted: Why Business Should Worry About the Battle Over Immigration
The need for foreign-born workers - both legal and otherwise - is creating new, unforeseen headaches for employers. Companies often wait years to get much-needed worker visas, when they can get them at all. Business managers say they are inundated with fraudulent work papers, putting them on the wrong side...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., worker
White papers 2006-03-15
Days of Delinquency
The metric known as "Days Sales Outstanding" DSO, a gauge of credit-collection efficiency, is at a 10-year low for U.S. corporations - and that's good news. To many, a low DSO means that a company is collecting its outstanding receivables quickly, and a downward trend suggests that the credit-collections process...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Sales Strategy, Financial Services, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing
White papers 2006-03-13
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