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Meeting Social Goals and Stakeholder Expectations: If you believe strongly that businesses have a responsibility to be good citizens, you've got a lot of company. [more]
Slouching Toward SEPA: The new pan-European payment system gives U.S.-based companies an opportunity to centralize liquidity and streamline their operations across the pond. [more]
Spitzer Brought Down By Bank Rules: It looks like the Suspicious Activity Reports New York Governor Eliot Spitzer used to tackle Wall Street corruption have led to his own downfall. [more]
Engaging Employees Through Social Media: Companies can boost employee communication through social media, according to Watson Wyatt Worldwide. [more]
Treasurers: You Must Measure to Measure Up: Corporate treasuries have been slow to adopt performance metrics, but more and more treasurers are realizing that their function can no longer afford to be perceived as a "black box" within the organization. [more]
Heads They Win, Tails We Lose: Executive pay is under more scrutiny, after Nell Minow, editor and co-founder of The Corporate Library, urged the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to require failed CEOs to return undue compensation to shareholders. [more]
Emerging Economies: The Speed of Growth: China is predicted to overtake the United States in 2025 to become the world's largest economy and may likely grow to be 130 percent the size of the United States by 2050, according to a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. [more]
Top 20 Praised Companies: Industry experts, 3,700 in fact, cast their votes to name the companies they most admire. [more]
For Better or for Worse: Executive Pay Model: If you ask corporate directors, the executive pay system is improving; if you ask institutional investors, it is not. [more]
Updates for FAF, FASB, and GASB: The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) and its two standard setting boards, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), will undergo changes after a vote by FAF's board of trustees. [more]
Secrets of the Private Equity Masters: Despite the rising cost of debt, private equity is here to stay -- and for reasons that have nothing to do with commonly cited factors such as relative freedom from regulation. [more]
Bankers Predict Tougher Times Ahead: Bankers are pessimistic; fewer than one in 10 bankers is optimistic about the economy, according to a Grant Thornton LLP study on bank executives. [more]
How CEO Compensation Stoked the Subprime Flames: Poorly designed "incentive" pay packages that encouraged CEOs to off-load risk onto shareholders were a precipitating factor in the subprime crisis. [more]
Companies Reduce Travel Budgets as Economy Worsens: Employees are staying closer to home as companies’ travel budgets shrink. [more]
The Itch To Merge Now: Could it be -- an M&A boom in the midst of recession fears and a struggling economy? [more]
Financial Performance Management: Using Assets Wisely: Financial performance management (FPM) utilizes people, processes, information, and technology to effectively support strategic objectives. [more]
Executive Pay Disclosure Still Lacking: Less than a third of S&P 500 companies reveal targets or goals for executive compensation, despite SEC disclosure regulations to inform shareholders about pay and incentive programs. [more]
SEC Unveils XBRL Tool for Financials: If you want a glimpse of what extensible business reporting language (XBRL) can do for financial statements, look no further than the SEC's new Finance Explorer tool. [more]
How Green Is Your Supply Chain?: The pressure is on for businesses to demonstrate their commitment to meeting environmental challenges, and one critical area of scrutiny is the supply chain. [more]
Insurers Not Warming to Climate Risk: As environmental advocacy groups take global warming issues to the courts and demands for climate-risk disclosures escalate, companies need to integrate potential liabilities into their risk management programs. [more]