Articles from CMA Management (November 1, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Breaking the border impasse: the federal government is bolstering border security with new investments, while trying to make trade more efficient.	Cooper, John		1405
Crude estimates: in September, CIBC World Markets suggested that oil would hit US$100 a barrel by 2007. So, should we expect big changes in world trade? Some experts think not.	Colman, Robert		981
Digitize this: approximately 5 million cheques are moved between Canadian financial institutions every single day. That's a lot of paper. The solution? An industry-wide initiative that captures images of cheques so they can be cleared electronically. But what does this impending change mean to you?	Vermond, Kira		1621
Glen LeBlanc, CMA, named senior vice president and CFO of Aliant.			2391
IT downtime: assessing the human factor; A number of recent studies cite human error as the largest cause of centralized IT failures. However, methods for mitigating this threat don't get much air time. IT managers seeking to make their systems more reliable would do well to take some lessons from other industries.	Stoller, Jacob		1210
Measuring the payoffs of strategic risk management.	McGee, Melanie Woodard		1937
Refocussing the corporate mind: the role of the CEO reconsidered, innovation in the creative enterprise, and essential coaching tips.			582
The new world of risk: although risk has always been an integral part of doing business, science and compliance have together conspired to make risk management both more complex and in some ways more precise. Bob McGlashan, CMA, is on the cutting edge of these changes.	Colman, Robert		1651
XBRL on the rise: organizations around the world are beginning to reap the benefits of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) standards by including them in automated processes. Governments, banks and companies are at the beginning stages of adopting XBRL. Early results, just in, are encouraging, but there is still lots to do.	O'Connor, Mark		1112