Articles from Financial Executive (May 1, 2004)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
A question of balance: assessing the final PCAOB auditing standard.	Sayther, Colleen		756
Accounting/Finance.			1163
Adrienne Glasgow.		Brief Article	32
Alan M. Bennett.		Brief Article	34
Are you spending too much on your 401k plan? With mutual fund and administration fees a hot current topic, a consultant suggests evaluating your plan--starting with a thorough review of the fees associated with the plan.	Stone, Donald		1835
AS2: when the pedal hits the metal; Although the costs and opportunity cost of the PCAOB's new audit standard are substantial, Financial Executives Research Foundation (FERF) finds that financial executives also view it as an opportunity to reinvigorate and reinforce the importance of internal controls.	Orenstein, Edith G.		1524
Asia: Japanese bankruptcies falling, but still high.	Heffes, Ellen M.	Brief Article	230
Ask FERF (financial executives research foundation) about ... internal control audits.	de Mesa Graziano, Cheryl		686
Barbara A. Klein.		Brief Article	38
Boston's best.	Orenstein, Edith		399
Broadening the boardroom dialogue.	Heffes, Ellen M.		732
Bumpy road ahead for tax-relief measures.	Prysock, Mark		737
CFOs.		Brief Article	28
Challenges under IFRS.	Heffes, Ellen M.		901
Compensation: disclosure urged for bonus formulas.	Heffes, Ellen M.	Brief Article	292
Contract management.		Brief Article	245
Data collection.		Brief Article	309
David H. Sidwell.		Brief Article	19
Directors; Board practices: a few quick facts.	Heffes, Ellen M.	Brief Article	98
Donna Weston.	Heffes, Ellen M.		728
FEI U.S. signs pact with Mexican FEI.		Brief Article	135
Financial management.			302
Financing: fast-growth companies increasing borrowings.	Heffes, Ellen M.	Brief Article	183
Forecasting: financial management woes hurt forecasts.	Heffes, Ellen M.		330
Gregory J. Hayes.		Brief Article	39
Harvey A. Wagner.		Brief Article	35
Having the right project leader.		Brief Article	30
Hedging software.		Brief Article	159
Hot on the trail of the trailing US dollar.	Stewart, Timothy		585
Human resources.		Brief Article	234
In quotes.		Brief Article	25
Investor relations: conference call, web usage grow.	Heffes, Ellen M.	Brief Article	225
Jeffrey R. Hennion.		Brief Article	32
Lawrence F. Davenport.		Brief Article	28
Lisa Maio Ross.	Madden, Jim	Brief Article	229
Lois M. Martin.		Brief Article	36
Mary Rhinehart.		Brief Article	34
New technologies: RFID makes waves as logistics tool.	Heffes, Ellen M.		348
Niraj Patel.	Madden, Jim	Brief Article	203
Obsolescence beckons.		Brief Article	24
Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology.	Marshall, Jeffrey	Book Review	310
Outsourcing: researchers downplay impact of offshoring.	Gray, Carol Lippert		424
Paul Kirincic.	Madden, Jim	Brief Article	261
Payment management.			283
Peter Pervere.		Brief Article	20
Prediction markets: crystal ball for finance? Also known as 'decision support' markets, these online bazaars may hold the key to better forecasts and improved financial controls.	Ray, Russ		900
Process-driven strategy is key to operational visibility.	Madden, Jim	Brief Article	114
Renita Wolf.		Brief Article	68
SAS 70: new life for an old audit standard; Following Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, the standard governing internal controls for third-party providers is getting serious attention--a dozen years after it was issued.	Gazzaway, Trent		1426
Scott McDonald.		Brief Article	30
Something to Yahoo! About: an internet winner.	Heffes, Ellen M.	Cover Story	3321
Stock option accounting: back from the '90s.	Heffes, Ellen M.	Interview	1367
The Naked Corporation: How the Age of Transparency Will Revolutionize Business.	Marshall, Jeffrey	Book Review	469
Thomas M. Kitchen.		Brief Article	35
Time to draw a line in the sand.	Grace, H. Stephen, Jr.		524
Transfer pricing getting more scrutiny: a survey by Ernst & Young finds that government authorities are putting more attention and more resources to examining--and even auditing--transfer-pricing transactions.	Kirwan, Karen		1878
Transparency starts at the top: a panel of executives discusses what their companies are doing to address the intense focus on corporate ethics.			2077
Understanding insider trading by top executives: buying and selling by top managers isn't always what it seems. True insider information is actually a very small motivator, an MIT professor finds.	Jenter, Dirk C.		1129
Using analytics to 'hit it out of the ballpark': no longer just for the fortune 1000 companies, today's analytics solutions provide access to highly accurate, trustworthy data that helps shape conclusions--making users more agile and better informed about all their market conditions.	Corden, John		1207
Vernon J. Nagel.		Brief Article	35
What did you get from ERP and what can you get? Many corporations are still looking for a meaningful return on all their investments in enterprise resource planning systems. While it's easy to blame the vendors, a company's approach to implementing the technology appears to be a common problem.	Millman, Gregory J.		2512