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AXA Warns of Current Investment Climate: Wealth manager AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd says the current investment environment will affect the financial performance of companies in the financial services sector."The current investment environment is clearly challenging for companies in our sector and it will have an impact on financial performance in the short-term," AXA Asia...; Tags: Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Financial, Financial Performance, AXA, Financial Accounting, Finance, AAP; News items 2008-04-16
Killer KPI's For Professional Services: In this paper you will learn: The growing role Services revenue plays in overall financial performance; Which KPI's (Key Performance Indicators) are essential and what they mean; Typical Key Performance targets; and Tips to improve your financial performance. As the technology market has matured, there has been a dramatic shift...; Tags: KPI, financial performance, professional services, revenue, financial; White papers
Multiple Choice for the Chemical Industry: Industry analysts and executives generally regard scale, geography, market position, and focus as key drivers of shareholder value, but a comprehensive study using McKinsey's long-term performance database found that those things do not make much difference to it. The study found that the most important driver of financial performance in...; Tags: Financial accounting, McKinsey & Co., financial performance, financial, shareholder, industry, performance; White papers
Exploring The Moderators On The Branding Strategy-financial performance Relationship: This paper explains the moderating roles that corporate reputation and business strategy have on the impact that a firm's branding strategy has on its financial performance. Drawing on the brand management, strategic management, and corporate reputation literatures, we investigate whether brand strategy has an impact on a firm's financial performance,...; Tags: University of Cambridge, financial performance, branding, business strategy, brand strategy, brand management, strategic management, brand, financial; White papers 2006-05-25
A CFO's Guide to Creating a High Performance Organization: Workforce Management Best Practices: Performance-driven organizations are characterized by above-average results, usually measured in financial terms, such as profit, earnings per share, revenue growth, return on invested capital, product costs, and asset utilization. Strong financial performance is an indicator of excellence elsewhere in the organization; these companies outperform their competitors...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Financial accounting, Kronos Inc., workforce management, high-performance, financial terms, earnings per share, financial, workforce, customer service, asset; White papers 2004-12-01

The Effect of Audit Qualifications on Investor Assessments of financial performance When Management Reports Conservatively in Periods of Strong financial performance: This paper discusses a study that was in which a field experiment was conducted using 45 experienced investors to examine how audit accounting-choice qualifications on income-decreasing accounting changes in years of strong financial performance affect investor assessments of strategic reporting, current financial performance, and future financial performance. We find that...; Tags: Financial accounting, Operational accounting, University of Virginia, qualification, financial performance, audit, income, accounting, investor, financial; White papers 2004-07-01
How Much Are Marketing & Sales Capabilities Really Worth?: What Every Pharmacutical Executive Should Know: An industry-wide study conducted by Accenture investigated the impact of Marketing and Sales (M&S) capabilities on a company's financial performance and identified the specific M&S capabilities that deliver the highest returns. This white paper presents the results of this research. The bottom line is that competitively superior M&S capabilities can...; Tags: Accenture Ltd., financial performance, marketing, financial, industry; White papers 2004-01-26
Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence From Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges: This paper investigates the role of corporate social responsibility measures in executive compensation by determining if socially responsible CEOs are paid according to their impact to both financial performance to shareholders and their social performance to protecting the interests of the stakeholders that the company also affects. Using a sample...; Tags: Benefits, Corporate law, Performance management, Financial accounting, Investment, University of Washington, Corporate Social Responsibility, compensation, CEO, corporate governance, stock option, financial, performance, shareholder, stock; White papers 2003-12-09
Benchmarking financial performance Gaps: A Top-Down Approach: This article describes a benchmarking methodology for uncovering opportunities to increase financial performance. Improved business strategies and processes have the potential to significantly increase financial performances. The problem is that often a purported solution to improve strategies and processes is explored and/or implemented before the knowing the real question. In...; Tags: Financial accounting, financial performance, benchmarking, financial, business strategy, strategy; White papers 2003-01-01
Does Employee Attitude Affect the Bottom Line: The case study reveals that smiling staffers can improve financial performance; professionals continue to worry about job security; knowledgeable 401(k) participants are more satisfied with the investments and more percent can improve financial performance by more than 42%. In a recent survey, employers asked employees how well they thought...; Tags: Financial accounting, Recruitment & Selection, Investment, Dow Jones & Company Inc., financial performance, financial, 401(k) plan, survey, job; Case studies 2003-01-01
Optimizing financial performance in 2003: Profitability in the Balance: Why Working - Capital Management Matters: A successful financial performance is a masterful balancing act, and the treasurer walks a financial tightrope to ensure success. Today’s economy has tipped the scale away from aggressive revenue streams. Yet companies seek profitability comparable to the days of double-digit, top-line revenue growth. Adaptability in the business world means ever...; Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., capital management, working capital, financial, stock market, interest rate, stock, strategy, performance; White papers 2003-01-01
Association Business Analysis For Dummies: From the executive summary: ‘Traditional financial performance measures like the dreaded liquidity ratios and cash flow analysis are unquestionably useful tools. They do not, however, drive at the business performance issues that drive financial performance. Business analysis in an association context means looking at each of the organization's business or...; Tags: Financial accounting, financial performance, liquidity, financial, advertisement, performance, tool; White papers 2002-06-01
Strategic Sourcing In Telecommunications Industry: For an industry facing a range of challenges, procurement and sourcing are among the most effective tools telecom companies can use to boost financial performance. But today, other terms characterize the telecom business: flat revenue growth, market saturation, and market cap decline and bandwidth consumption lagging bandwidth creation. It's no...; Tags: Supply chain management (SCM), Telephony, Purchasing & Procurement, Telecom & Utilities, Financial accounting, Montgomery Research Inc., financial performance, supply chain, telecommunications, market capitalization, sourcing, procurement, financial, shareholder, indus; White papers 2002-05-16
It's the People, Stupid: It's a line employees and union leaders have touted for years: Happy employees make for more profitable companies. Now there seems to be more data to back it up. Watson Wyatt Worldwide, the benefits consulting firm, says it has evidence to support the idea that improvements in human-capital practices (in...; Tags: Financial accounting, Benefits, CFO Publishing Corp., financial performance, financial, compensation, benefit; White papers 2002-01-01
Organizational Reputation as a Source of Sustainable Competitive Advantage and Above-Normal Performance: An Empirical Test among Local Authorities in Israel: The role of organizational reputation (OR) was studied as a source of sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) and superior performance, theoretically and empirically, among local authorities in Israel. Using the LISREL VIII program, the paper proposed a mediation model that argues for a relationship between OR and financial performance, mediated by...; Tags: Performance management, Drexel University, financial performance, Israel, financial, performance; White papers 2001-07-13

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Dynamic Gold Corp. Appoints New Chief Financial Officer: Dynamic Gold Corp. ("the Company") (OTCBB: DYGO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Chantal Schutz, CA as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and will replace Ann Cederholm. Ms. Schutz graduated from Royal Roads University in 1997 with a Bachelor's degree in Commerce specializing in Entrepreneurial Management and...; Articles 2008-05-08
Broadridge Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results and Increases EPS Guidance: Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.(NYSE: BR), a leading global provider of technology-based outsourcingsolutions to the financial services industry, today reported earnings of$29.5 million, or $0.21 per share for the third quarter ended March 31,2008, compared to $41.9 million or $0.30 per share for thecomparable quarter of the previous fiscal year. Commenting...; Articles 2008-05-08
Yellow Pages Income Fund Reports Continued Strong Financial and Operational Performance in Q1 2008: Yellow Pages Income Fund (TSX: YLO.UN) reported strong first quarter 2008 results coincident with its Annual Meeting held in Montreal today. The company's financial and operational performance continued to build on solid gains in 2007 and was highlighted by growth in both EBITDA(1) and EBITDA margins. First quarter results were...; Articles 2008-05-08
Pinnacle Airlines Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results: Pinnacle Airlines Corp. (NASDAQ: PNCL) ("the"Company") today reported first quarter 2008 net income and fully dilutedearnings per share ("EPS") of $2.7 million and $0.15, respectively. TheCompany's net income and EPS were $9.4 million and $0.38, respectively, forthe first quarter of 2007. The Company's financial performance for the quarter was...; Articles 2008-05-08