Articles from Financial Executive (July 1, 2007)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
Ask FERF about ... electronic wage statements.	de Mesa Graziano, Cheryl		785
BasWare.			269
Canada's MI52-109 avoids AS2 fault.	Dzinkowski, Ramona		288
Committee on Corporate Reporting.			488
Committee on Government Business.			85
Committee on Taxation.			131
Conference schedule.		Calendar	53
Corporate Culture: more myth than reality? While business success and failure are often laid to "culture," the term is elusive and frequently misused. Experts in organization behavior say it's difficult to alter a company's culture, and when it does shift, it's often the result of successful business performance changes.	Millman, Gregory J.		2143
Corporate foundations make record contributions.	Marshall, Jeffrey; Heffes, Ellen M.		380
Cox's balancing Act: SEC Chairman Christopher Cox came in with a reputation as a business advocate. But his job is a complicated one, and he seems to be taking a cautious approach that aims at finding a middle ground between the interests of business and investors.	Barlas, Stephen		3254
CPC Group Convenes on Capitol Hill.			91
Crossword.			302
Do you know why it's dry?	Marshall, Jeffrey; Heffes, Ellen M.		168
Editor's page.	Marshall, Jeffrey		551
Emptoris.			296
FEI Chapter Achievement Winners.			49
Financial Executive named finalist.			120
For FASB's Herz: 'the ultimate destination--a single set of common standards'.	Heffes, Ellen M.	Interview	2438
Fraud: the human factor; Many discount behavioral explanations for fraud, but as the incidence of fraud continues to grow, placing the spotlight on behavioral factors may be an important approach not only to detection, but to deterrence as well.	Ramamoorti, Sri; Olsen, William		1944
Government initiative seeks to pull in employers.	Marshall, Jeffrey; Heffes, Ellen M.		408
How low can Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 costs go? In the third year of compliance with Section 404, total average costs have dropped an additional 23 percent from year two, say respondents to an FEI survey. Financial Executives Research Foundation asks why and what more can be expected.	de Mesa Graziano, Cheryl; Sinnett, William M.		1971
In quotes.	Bernanke, Benjamin		42
Legal niceties color backdating cases; There hasn't been a huge wave of class-action suits triggered by the scores of investigations and allegations of improper stock option backdating. One big reason: legal technicalities that make derivative suits more appropriate.	Sweeney, Paul		2123
Mark A. Rusch.	Heffes, Ellen M.		636
Mastering the four key CFO's roles: the job of CFO is quite different from what it was a few short years ago. In order to find balance, it's worthwhile to take stock of the CFO's four faces, and know what's important, what you absolutely have to do and what you can delegate.	Ehrenhalt, Steven; Ryan, Deirdre		1991
Most directors fail to link IT with strategy.	Marshall, Jeffrey; Heffes, Ellen M.		241
Names in the news.			559
Open Systems Inc.			202
Outstanding chapters saluted at Summit.			99
Private companies will feel the impact of FIN 48.	Thomas, Ted		777
Proven FEI veterans take their place as leaders: Alexis Dow and Louis O'Brien, the incoming chairs of FEI and FEI Canada, have each established long records of service at both local and national levels. Their stated goals diverge, however, reflecting their organizations' differing needs.	Marshall, Jeffrey; Heffes, Ellen M.		2175
Proxy season 2007: more smoke than fire; The 2007 proxy season saw a slew of challenges from activist shareholders, private equity funds, public pension funds and others. Many high-profile proxy contests did not materialize, as companies compromised to keep resolutions from being voted on.	Brewer, H. Bryan		2025
SmartDraw.com.			330
Survey points to common woes.	Marshall, Jeffrey; Heffes, Ellen M.		275
Tableau Software.			313
The challenge of global accounting convergence.	Cangemi, Michael P.		667
The immigration quandary in the U.S.	Davila, Serena		658
Treasury trends: bank relationships & bank report cards.	Carmody, Daniel J.		676
Trimming organizational costs ... for the long term: keeping organizations trim over the long term can be compared to dieting to keep weight off. Success depends on taking a serious look into root causes--those that go deep into four areas of an organization's DNA.	Ericksen, Matt; Powers, Elizabeth; Ribeiro, Frank		2105
Weather derivatives for the middle market.	Marshall, J.		373
Why leaders need to put customers first: with commoditized products and more choices for customers than ever, strong leaders are needed to drive strategy and operations and to establish a customer-service focus, the true differentiator for a successful business.	Blanchard, Scott	Cover story	3341