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BANKING & CAPITAL MARKETS

Dimon in the Rough

A scramble to benefit from a bad trade.

HUMAN CAPITAL & CAREERS

What Makes a CFO Great?

Technical skill and running the finance department are secondary to talking to customers and making a difference, senior executives say.

HUMAN CAPITAL & CAREERS

CFOs on the Move: Week Ending May 18

AllianceBernstein, CSC, AmerisourceBergen, McGraw-Hill Education, Global Franchise Group, MEMC Electronic Materials, The McClatchy Co., Rimini Street

ACCOUNTING & TAX

Effective Tax Rate Rises for Industrials

U.S.-based firms have higher ETRs than their global counterparts. But some will benefit from favorable tax treatments they receive on their investments in emerging markets.

STRATEGY

Wave of Consumer Spending Expected to Ebb

Growth in consumer buying will be undercut by stagnant incomes and still-weak household balance sheets, say economists and some members of the Federal Open Market Committee.

ACCOUNTING & TAX

Why Isn’t the Stock Market Higher?

What companies can do to help their share prices catch up with the surge in corporate net income.

HUMAN CAPITAL & CAREERS

Backdating Stock Options Still a Risky Play

A Silicon Valley court loss shows how much a CFO may still be on the hook for improperly accounting for employee compensation expense.

RISK & COMPLIANCE

JP Morgan Hedge Exposed the Bank to More Risk

The banking giant’s experience with a $2 billion trading miscue provides a lesson in how not to protect against potential losses.

ACCOUNTING & TAX

Why Bankruptcy Should Matter in Lease Accounting

A new approach to change lessee cost patterns is gaining momentum with FASB and IASB members.

TECHNOLOGY

You Can’t Ignore Timeline (Facebook Won’t Let You)

How business can find value in a choice it wasn’t allowed to make.

TECHNOLOGY

Welcome to the IP Bubble

As tech companies buy and sell patents for escalating sums of money, it’s beginning to look a lot like a bubble. What should CFOs do to value their companies’ intellectual property accurately and diligently?

Risk Management Blog

Vincent Ryan

LEADERSHIP

CFOs Behaving Badly

It’s not the finance chief who brandished a baseball bat at his boss who needs to change his approach to the job.

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Financial Discipline as Foundation for Growth


The tactics that finance executives deployed during the downturn may turn out to be even more useful in the recovery.

May 2012

Risk Takers, Career Makers

How are women reaching the
top? Sometimes
by making unconventional career moves.

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