Articles from Financial Executive (May 1, 2007)

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Title	Author	Type	Words
Active Reasoning.			235
Ask FERF about ... board of directors' compensation.	de Mesa Graziano, Cheryl		740
Cangemi wins Lubin Legacy Award.			110
Conference schedule.		Calendar	44
CPC subcommittee meets with FASB.			168
Crossword.			322
Editor's page.	Marshall, Jeffrey		537
Good to employees, good to shareholders.	Heffes, Ellen M.		232
Governments can help piracy fight, companies say.	Heffes, Ellen M.		256
Guarding against HR missteps that can trigger litigation.	Kinney, Tricia		789
Have the new rules improved boards? There is a decidedly new tone in most U.S. boardrooms--and an enhanced seriousness and attention to details. Have the rules improved boards or merely added to directors' responsibilities and worries?	Heffes, Ellen M.	Cover story	3766
Hope is not a strategy for managing FX risk.	Koester, Wolfgang		783
How CFOs can contain rising audit costs: high audit costs could start to force smaller businesses to sacrifice fiscal health for compliance. Specialized CPA firms may offer lower-cost services than major accounting firms, says an executive at one such CPA firm.	Famiglietti, Carl		1462
How finance can help build a leadership infrastructure: enforcing quantitative rigor on human resource costs and objectives is a role suited for financial executives, and their participation in an infrastructure design and implementation can be highly valuable.	Ott, Bill	Company overview	1868
In quotes.	Newport, Patrick		24
Infogix joins FEI Strategic Partners Program.			119
Is your ethics program working? A business with strong ethical behavior enhances and preserves its reputation, inspires loyalty and advertises that it has its ethics message right. It also fosters an ethical culture within the organization.	Vallario, Cynthia Waller		1931
Juggling the pros and cons of taking risks: two professional jugglers apply their skills to making the right decisions.	Morse, Owen		795
KPMG chief Flynn confronts 'the age of oversight'.	Heffes, Ellen M.		1668
Lisa McAlister.	Heffes, Ellen M.		566
Most company programs seen inadequate.	Heffes, Ellen M.		389
Names in the news.			571
New use for an accepted process: in the fast-paced global economy, the stakes for understanding and managing corporate reputations are enormous. Enterprise risk management (ERM)--long accepted as a process for managing business risks--offers a holistic and systematic approach to managing such risk.	Farrell, John		2107
Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation.	Marshall, Jeffrey		341
Players need to work together to defeat complexity.	DiFabio, Christine		778
QUMAS.			268
Reinforcing the "I" in FEI.	Cangemi, Michael P.		816
Risk Modeling emerges for potential pandemics.	Heffes, Ellen M.		260
SEC disclosure rules evoke concern.	Marshall, Jeffrey		452
Shadow Financial Services Corp.			202
Simple Solutions: Harness the Power of Passion and Simplicity to Get Results.	Marshall, Jeffrey		246
Strategic Corporate Finance: Applications in Valuation & Capital Structure.	Marshall, Jeffrey		187
The calm before a storm? Funding levels have recovered strongly, and the Pension Protection Act has provided new certainty on key rules for plan sponsors. But accounting issues and volatility remain major concerns.	Marshall, Jeffrey		1628
Tips on valuing international leasing transactions: due diligence and valuation have taken on even more importance in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley, and foreign lease deals present specific challenges, says a valuation expert.	Daubenspeck, Rick		1669
Top-line growth ranked No. 1 goal.	Heffes, Ellen M.		286
Transcepta LLC.			268
Web-based learning gains more converts: log on and learn--that's a mantra more and more financial professionals have been repeating. Web-based tools make sense in many ways and many settings. But don't expect live learning to disappear soon.	Sweeney, Paul		1906
Xactly Corp.			325