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What's the next direction for CFOs?
in Sox First, on May 25, 2009
...pe the work of chief financial officers. When the recovery comes, the world will be very different. CFOs will have to start shifting their focus to getting the most out of the recovery. And because mo...
The great economic cover up
in Sox First, on April 10, 2009
...caused the problems. That's a pretty straightforward thing, as well. Why would we keep CEOs and CFOs and other senior officers, that caused the problems? That's facially nuts. That's our c...
Warning to CFOs: don't trust HR
in Sox First, on March 11, 2009
All over the world, financial services firms are sacking workers. An International Labor Organisation (ILO) report says there were 325,000 layoffs around the world between August 2007 and 12 February 2009, and still it's continuing. The ILO says we are likely to see a permanent reduction i...
Recession to last a year - CFOs
in Sox First, on January 14, 2009
...rsity/CFO Magazine Global Business Outlook Survey , released at the end of last year, 60 percent of CFOs say the US economic recovery will be delayed until the fourth quarter of 2009 or later, while 7...
Core IT skills lacking in talent pool?
in The CIO Weblog, on December 11, 2008
...So say a significant chunk of the 450 respondents comprised of CIOs, CFOs, and HR professionals surveyed by "modernisation solution" provider MicroFocus in a report released earlier this m...
Keeping the CIO relevant
in The CIO Weblog, on October 13, 2008
...s for the profession... or at least in pundits opinions thereof.
First, from Gartner, we hear that CFOs are likely to start gaining ground on the governance ladder and supervising CIOs more and mor...
CFO turnover continues
in Sox First, on October 13, 2008
...economic slowdown. One suspects that with more companies taking a chainsaw to their operations, CFOs will be on the job a lot longer....
Missing earnings targets: career consequences
in Sox First, on September 30, 2008
...y, CEO and CFO Career Consequences to Missing Quarterly Earnings Benchmarks . The study found that CFOs who miss analyst consensus forecasts are likely to have a bonus cut of 8%, and a 0.62% higher c...
CFO churn
in Sox First, on September 6, 2008
...rs is getting tougher with a new study, to be released next month, showing that roughly half of the CFOs at Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies stay in their posts for less than three years, accordi...
Watch for the CFO non-verbal cues
in Sox First, on August 12, 2008
...oney into companies with executives displaying negative emotions suffered a 9 per cent loss. Maybe CFOs should take acting lessons, although the experts say that your voice is not that easily control...
CIOs in odd places
in The CIO Weblog, on July 24, 2008
... named Alan Farnsworth as CIO... and Senior Vice President of Customer Service. I've heard of CFOs doubling as CIOs. A COO doubling up on the role would raise no eyebrows here. But customer ser...
CFOs' road to the top
in Sox First, on June 2, 2008
...ica were former chief financial officers, almost double the share of a decade earlier. The reason: CFOs are now hogging the limelight with the importance of quarterly reporting and increased scrutiny...
SOX and CFO exits
in Sox First, on May 29, 2008
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Tough being a chief financial officer these days, post-Sarbanes-Oxley. It seems that CFOs of firms that have had to restate their numbers are more likely to be shown the door and a university o...
SOX-related boardroom changes and share price
in Sox First, on April 1, 2008
...nt from the firm, at least one member of the audit committee had to be a financial expert, CEOs and CFOs were required to certify financial statements and loans to insiders were prohibited. Boards wer...
JP Morgan China Conference: April 23-25
in China Venture News, on March 13, 2008
... 2,000 one-on-one meetings that place the world's investment elite face-to-face with CEOs & CFOs of China's best companies. Also on offer are presentations from 200 speakers, including Chi...
Interview with Brett Curran from Axentis
in Sox First, on February 22, 2008
...that's the case? CURRAN: I do. The people that got sent to attack Sarbanes-Oxley issues, the CFOs and internal audit, they are great with writing audit papers and following through on processes...
HP goes green
in The CIO Weblog, on January 25, 2008
...P may be slightly ahead of their market here, particularly considering the pricing, but as CIOs and CFOs do the math, they are getting into a product line that is bound to take off at some point....
CFO disconnect
in Sox First, on January 4, 2008
...chief financial officers in their first 100 days on the job. According to a McKinsey survey , most CFOs say their time is not being spent in areas where it's needed. Instead of working on looking...
Restatements: CEO, CFO and top management turnover
in Sox First, on November 15, 2007
...and Auditor Turnover , found that restating firms have greater turnover of CEOs, top management and CFOs than control firms. It revealed that during the three-year period of the study, restating CEOs,...
CFO bonuses and material weaknesses
in Sox First, on October 22, 2007
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What impact does it have on CFOs when the company admits it has screwed up and makes a material weakness disclosure under Section 404? Not real flash, according to a new study. The study, The Eff...
Two steps back in CIO reporting structure
in The CIO Weblog, on October 11, 2007
... to this Baseline Magazine article. For the most part, as you might expect, CIOs are reporting to CFOs.
This is particularly poor news if you happen to believe, as most of us seem to, that informat...
Buried treasure, corporate pirates and Sarbanes-Oxley
in Sox First, on October 9, 2007
...y to the bonuses and not the salaries purportedly earned. And secondly, it might result in CEOs and CFOs being more reluctant to restate financials. "Such inaction could lead to greater losses t...
Financial statement fraud gangs
in Sox First, on October 1, 2007
...h. For firms accused of fraud, the average number of respondents was 7.2, including including CEOs, CFOs, COOs, general counsel, directors and internal and external auditors. According to the study, ...
The Brocade case: now for the gatekeepers
in Sox First, on August 21, 2007
...ers should rest easy. And with more prosecutions coming up, that should be a worry for auditors and CFOs....
Bribes and gifts for analysts
in Sox First, on August 15, 2007
...finding from a study that reveals about two out of three analysts have received favors from CEOs, CFOs, and other top executives. More alarmingly, the study found that the more a company's earn...
Interview with Boyden World Corporation president Christopher J Clarke
in Sox First, on August 8, 2007
... is a growing part of Boyden's business. SOX FIRST : What's driving this trend of interim CFOs? CLARKE: That length of time is very much decided by the project or the activity that's ...
Will Rapid-Fire Finance Self-Destruct the Economy?
in Businesspundit, on July 27, 2007
...ave many second order effects (like less liquidity). The traders don't bother me so much as the CFOs who patronize them. The problem is with the CFOs - giving quarterly earnings targets, using acc...
SOX birthday: five years and accounting
in Sox First, on July 17, 2007
...-Oxley. To mark the occasion, CFO Europe has released a survey showing that three out of four US CFOs and six out of 10 European CFOs want the Act reformed or repealed. Not that that's going to...
CFOs need more than financials
in Sox First, on July 2, 2007
...ial management information, like customer satisfaction and sustainability . In their defense, CFOs reckon that the information they receive from management is hazy. This is all the more extraor...
Private equity drives CFO job churn
in Sox First, on May 22, 2007
...he main reasons for CFO turnover. It's now at 17 per cent, up from 4 per cent in 2005. And for CFOs, it's going to look more and more insecure. Chris Langhoff, a member of Russell Reynolds A...
Fraud and delinquent communities
in Sox First, on May 16, 2007
... which reveals that in most cases, fraudsters are not acting alone. The study found that CEOs and CFOs were named as participants in the great majority of fraud allegations which, the authors say, i...
SAP Yang(Outlooksoft) for Oracle Ying(Hyperion)
in The CIO Weblog, on May 9, 2007
...ith the latest availability of OutlookSoft 5 .
"Across industry segments and global markets, CFOs are under tremendous pressure to improve business performance, predictability and stakeholder c...
Short-term CFOs, short-term strategy
in Sox First, on March 12, 2007
Just this year, I have blogged on the high turnover of chief financial officers here , here and here . Companies pay a price for this, in more ways than one. A recent survey conducted by Duke University and CFO magazine, and published by CFO.com , reveals that nine out of 10 (87.6 percent...
Moving on: CFO departure lounge
in Sox First, on February 28, 2007
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Last week, I looked at the issue of CFOs leaving companies in record numbers . Clearly the trend will escalate this year. More of the same, but worse. But what's driving this trend? ...
CFO revolving door to turn faster in 2007?
in Sox First, on February 21, 2007
...e more it continues, the more companies will pay to hang on to their chief number cruncher. It puts CFOs in a strong negotiating position....
Aberdeen's new event on supply chain innovation
in Supplychainer, on February 14, 2007
...ture best practices in supply chain strategy and execution for supply chain vice presidents , CFOs and treasurers, CIOs, COOs, and directors of logistics, manufacturing, and purchasing.
Confirm...
CFO turnover on the up
in Sox First, on January 30, 2007
... a growing number are now jumping ship, according to Reuters . According to the news report, 2300 CFOs of public companies in the United States and Canada headed for the exit door last year, compare...
Sponsored Post: Active RFID Makes Business Sense
in Supplychainer, on October 25, 2006
...a 6-9 month return on investment by utilizing best practices. This payback will certainly appeal to CFOs and help justify many further implementations.
On the technology side, we will hear from leadi...
Sponsored Post: Active RFID Makes Business Sense
in The RFID Weblog, on October 24, 2006
...a 6-9 month return on investment by utilizing best practices. This payback will certainly appeal to CFOs and help justify many further implementations.
On the technology side, we will hear from leadi...
Lost laptop hall of shame
in Sox First, on September 9, 2006
...oung. This is not only dumb, it's also legally irresponsible. Sarbanes-Oxley requires CEOs and CFOs to attest to their companies having proper internal controls. Now, try vouching for the robustn...
Private Equity: The SOX effect?
in Sox First, on September 4, 2006
There are lots of reasons for the explosive growth in private equity. An obvious one is low interest which makes debt very cheap. Another is the growing pool money pouring in from pension fund, banks and insurance companies desperate for market-beating returns. But how much are Sarbanes...
Lost laptop lunacy
in Sox First, on August 22, 2006
Four out of five US companies have lost at least one laptop containing sensitive information over the past year. Indeed only one in 10 companies say there was no sensitive or confidential info on the lost laptop. But worse still, most companies are ignorant about what's actually on the miss...
SOX brings in bucks
in Sox First, on August 18, 2006
...s for that is Sarbanes-Oxley. Indeed, SOX is now the big money spinner for many kinds of jobs, from CFOs to IT professionals ....
CFOs: Show us the money!
in Sox First, on August 16, 2006
...steady stream of money, according to a Robert Half Finance & Accounting survey of 1400 CFOs from a sample of US companies. According to the survey, 27 per cent nominated the folding stuf...
IBM CFO Study 2005
in The CIO Weblog, on June 22, 2006
...dship to a more predictive role of providing dynamic business insight to decision makers. Moreover, CFOs aspire to deliver insight simultaneously across the three top areas of importance for an enterp...
Accountants: revolving doors, rock stars and gumshoe heroes.
in Sox First, on June 13, 2006
Sarbanes-Oxley has been blamed for many things. Now we're told the pressure of Sarbox is forcing chief financial officers to look for other jobs and contributing to enormous churn at CFO job level, according to a new study from headhunters Russell Reynolds Associates . But lower down the ...
CEO-CIO Train Wreck
in The CIO Weblog, on April 7, 2006
... This IDC research finding was from a survey of business executives, including CEOs, CFOs and other Line-of-Business (LOB) executives, as well as of CIOs. The question we asked this group was a ve...
The death of the CFO superstar: The Fastow Legacy
in Sox First, on March 7, 2006
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My how things change! It wasn't that long ago that CFOs were treated like rockstars. But with Enron's former go-to man Andrew Fastow taking the stand this week , the Washington Post re...
Joe Vales and Rich Tinervin issue global forecast for consortia buying in Finance and Accounting outsourcing
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on December 10, 2005
...nal forces impacting the outsourcing marketplace: the impact of globalization, the growing focus of CFOs on strategy, the movement to vertical industry solutions, the power of standardization, the con...
Richard Branson: The Good, The Bad, and The Money Quotes - Part 2
in Businesspundit, on October 20, 2005
...uot; That is interesting when you contrast it with this study from rob_businessert Half in which CFOs ranked people skills dead last.
How does Richard Branson run 300 businesses? He gave some insi...
Things I've Been Meaning to Say
in Businesspundit, on October 16, 2005
...they can learn from them.
For all our talk of hiring for personality, passion, etc. it seems that CFOs don't agree . All else being equal, it comes in dead last.
Then there is this Organizati...
Outsourcing CIOs
in The CIO Weblog, on August 19, 2005
...d -- while the role of CIO is
relatively new, executive outsourcing is not a new endeavor. CEOs and
CFOs have been outsourced successfully for years. Steve Shu ...
The Changing Role of CFOs, and the Importance of Corporate Culture
in Businesspundit, on March 3, 2005
...bout a lot, her being an auditor and all. She is a big proponent of the idea that one new role of CFOs should be to be active in developing the corporate culture. There was an article yesterday in the...
Hiring for Leadership vs. Hiring for a Cultural Fit
in Businesspundit, on February 25, 2005
...de [that executive] more effective" than Fiorina, he says. Mader spoke with CFO.com about what CFOs can learn from the HP--Fiorina relationship.
Instead of culture, Mader prefers to focus on lea...
CFO Perspectives on the CIO and IT Function
in The CIO Weblog, on January 4, 2005
... share some thoughts about an article in CFO magazine's winter 2004 issue that talks about how CFOs agree on the value of IT but disagree on how to measure and manage it.
On the one hand, a v...
Tag Prices...and a Game of Chicken
in The RFID Weblog, on October 18, 2004
...s earlier.
Tag makers are in the midst of a game of chicken between the users and mandate-makers. CFOs, already a conservative lot, have to some extent been influenced by the headlines screaming, pr...
Goal Setting Goes with ... Cheating?
in Businesspundit, on July 15, 2004
...s. Businesspundit is one such person. Back in her audit days, she frequently received pressure from CFOs and Controllers who were upset with things she found to write up. She wrote them up anyway. It&...
Should Small Firms Give up Auditing?
in Businesspundit, on August 27, 2003
...s long as it gets done. Many audit departments bid low and lose money just to get the job. Then the CFOs complain about 20-somethings with only a few years of experience being in charge of the audit, ...