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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...; Tags: Financial Executives International, outsourcing; White papers 2004-03-01
Benefiting From Corporate Performance Management Solutions: Assessing the performance of a business enterprise is critical activity. Such assessment lays the foundation for future business planning and enables the organization to work on its weaknesses and leverage its strengths. Corporate Performance Management is a broad framework consisting of the methodologies, tools, metrics, and systems to monitor and...; Tags: Business intelligence, Financial Executives International, corporate performance management, monitor, performance, tool; White papers 2004-03-01
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: From Project To Practice: From the executive summary: ‘Most companies today are conducting substantial, even massive, projects around Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 requirements. There is a growing need, however, to transform that initial project effort into sustainable practice as companies realize that the ‘deadline’ is not the finish line. The transition from a compliance project...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Financial Executives International, compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, sustainability; White papers 2004-01-01
Consolidation Buffets BI Markets: A long-predicted shakeout of the Business Intelligence (BI) and Business Performance Management (BPM) software market is underway, but it is unclear how it will end. This article assesses that a long-predicted consolidation has started to sweep through the industry, which has long been divided among a group of very large...; Tags: Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise software, Financial Executives International, business performance management, business intelligence, consolidation, finance, analysis, industry, software; White papers 2003-10-01
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...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process outsourcing (BPO), Financial accounting, Financial Executives International, financial analysis, business process, BPO, software development, outsourcing, customer service, financial, software; White papers 2003-09-01

Circles of Influence: The article brings in issue that the long arm of Sarbanes-Oxley touches the private as well as the public sector and that might not be so bad. It says, while the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was aimed at the governance of public companies in the wake of scandals surrounding Enron, WorldCom and...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial Executives International, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, auditing; White papers 2003-09-01
Going Beyond Commodity Outsourcing: From the executive summary: ‘Outsourcing used to be a simple concept. Now, it can mean a multitude of things. An outsourcing firm merely takes on responsibility for an existing function, offering to do it cheaper. This is commodity outsourcing. All of the major outsourcing service providers do it, but since...; Tags: Financial Executives International, outsourcing, cost reduction, business process, financial, industry; White papers 2003-09-01
People Programs Pay Off: From the executive summary: ‘In today’s dynamic business environment, Personnel costs represent the largest expense, but are also the largest asset. It has been said repeatedly that competition in the 21st century will be based on the caliber of the workforce. As such, the challenge for companies is defining how...; Tags: Workforce management, Recruitment & Selection, Financial Executives International, workforce, asset; White papers 2003-07-01
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...; Tags: Financial Executives International, outsourcing, agency, strategy; White papers 2003-07-01
Rethinking The Leadership Agenda: Leadership involves effectively taking the subordinates into confidence and motivating them to accomplish their goals. In today’s dynamic business environment, the leadership paradigm has witnessed a lateral shift. Today, leaders are required to create strong relationships with subordinates and focus on the core strategy of the organization. The paper examines...; Tags: Financial Executives International, leadership, leader, strategy; White papers 2003-07-01
Today's Governance Codes: Demanding, Confusing and, Ultimately, How Effective?: "This article discusses how a meaningful code of conduct can be established and how to create a framework for complying with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley, which requires a company's management to present an internal control assessment in the company's annual report. Sarbanes-Oxley will ensure that there will be fewer corporate...; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial Executives International, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, code of conduct, Section 404, accounting; White papers 2003-06-01
Sarbanes-Oxley 404: A Compliance Game Plan: From the executive summary: ‘For public company finance executives, compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires disciplined project management and a thorough consideration of the appropriate roles to be played by management and its advisors and auditors.’ The paper examines the provisions of Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act....; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial Executives International, Section 404, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, compliance, advisor, project management; White papers 2003-06-01
Internal Audit: Active Ingredient in Reform Mix: Shareholders expect audit committees to be independent and effective watchdogs over financial reporting for the corporate boards on which they serve. In turn, audit committee members look to senior management to set the right ethical tone, communicate accurate and timely information, identify risks and understand controls for good risk management....; Tags: Financial accounting, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Executives International, audit, financial reporting, risk management, shareholder, board, financial; White papers 2003-06-01
FASB Improves Accounting for Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity: The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued Statement No. 150, Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity. The Statement improves the accounting for certain financial instruments that, under previous guidance, issuers could account for as equity. The new Statement requires that those instruments be...; Tags: Financial accounting, Financial services, Investment, Operational accounting, Financial Executives International, financial instrument, Financial Accounting Standards Board, equity, accounting, financial; White papers 2003-05-15
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...; Tags: Stock Options & Grants, Stock options, Corporate governance, Benefits, Financial accounting, Financial Executives International, employee stock option, Financial Accounting Standards Board, board, compensation, accounting, stock, financial; White papers 2003-03-12
Investor Communications: New Rules For M&A Success: Mergers and acquisitions are the primary tool of corporate strategy in the changed M&A climate. This article talks about the M&A communications process. Communications strategy can make the difference between success and failure on everything from securing shareholder approval to meshing two distinct organizational cultures. This article suggests that senior...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Executives International, M&A, organizational culture, strategy, shareholder, tool; White papers 2003-02-01
Nothing But The Truth: Three companies: one struggling after a bad quarter, one redirecting business to rebuild confidence after an accounting misstep and one dot-com trying to get on the map. But when they talk to investors, in essence they tell the same tale. If one is not paying attention then, securities analysts are...; Tags: Financial Executives International, dot-com, accounting, security; White papers 2003-01-01
Intangibles As Value: Thus, the intangibles movement has largely succeeded in the first phase of its mission - creating wide awareness and active discourse about the economic role of intangible assets and their consequences.; Tags: Asset management, Financial Executives International, asset; 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...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial accounting, Financial Executives International, M&A, merger, acquisition; White papers 2003-01-01
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.; Tags: Sarbanes-Oxley, Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Financial Executives International, Corporate Governance Framework, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate governance, accounting; White papers 2003-01-01