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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...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Financial, Financial Statement, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance

• 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...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Financial, Financial Statement, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance

• The Next Wave Of Green IT: IT's Role In The Future Of Enterprise Sustainability

  BNET - 2009-01-01

  Some companies have been particularly ambitious in leading environmental change, whether led by a desire to keep pace with competitors, to avoid penalties or bad publicity, or simply their own sense of right and wrong. But the new U.S. administration is likely to push the environment to the top of...

  Tags: Sustainability, CFO Publishing Corp., Information Technology, Green IT

• CFO Magazine Names Lissa Short Senior Vice President of Advertising; B-to-B Ad Veteran to Head All Advertising Strategy for CFO

  - 2006-06-12

  NEW YORK -- CFO Publishing, an Economist Group business, today announced the promotion of Lissa Short to Senior Vice President of Advertising. She'll manage all advertising sales functions for CFO magazine in the United States. "Lissa Short has been instrumental in building our advertising base and serves as a...

  Tags: advertisement, B2B, CFO, CFO Publishing Corp.

• 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...

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

• 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

• HIPAA e-Rule Surprises Small Businesses

  BNET - 2006-04-20

  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: CFO Publishing Corp., U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Health Care, Small Business, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Quality, Regulations, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations

• 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...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., 401(k), Retirement Plans, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Investment, Human Resources, Finance

• 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...

  Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Executive Compensation, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance

• Not so Easily Replaced: The Notion That Long-Term Government Employees Are a Liability Is a Simplistic One, According to One Reader

  BNET - 2006-04-01

  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: Employee, CFO Publishing Corp., Asset Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations