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Student Gets Exam Credit for Expletive: A British student received partial credit on a high school exam paper for writing only a two-word expletive. [more]
Church Offers Drive-in Weddings: At a car rally later this month, the Church of Sweden will offer drive-in wedding ceremonies that last a mere seven minutes. [more]
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CFOs Circle the Wagons: Finance chiefs are adopting a defensive posture in response to the economic slowdown, notes a new survey from Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business and Financial Executives International. [more]
Survey: Climate Change Tops List of Emerging Risks: Global warming is the single biggest threat to business growth over the next 10 years, according to a survey by Business Continuity Expo 2008. [more]
Key Lessons for Newly Minted CFOs: The first three- to six-months of a CFO's tenure are critical to long-term career success, as this article proves by surveying 164 CFOs of various tenures to distill valuable lessons. [more]
Mentoring Made Easy: As succession planning in the finance function has taken on increased importance due to reduced staffs in many organizations, mentorship has become a hot issue. [more]
Rounding Up Leadership Scholars: A peek at the latest in leadership thought offers four nuggets that might inspire follow-up for CFOs who want to be on the cutting edge: the importance of curiosity (curious leaders excel at problem solving); charisma (you have to get your audience highly aroused); understanding the brain's physiology to better manage a staff; and problem solving Harvard-style (an adaptive leader helps people understand the problem and then they build a plan together). [more]
Shareholder Pressures Bring Leadership Challenges: Shareholder groups that are disappointed with a company's financial results create pressures on corporate leaders such as those described by Pepsi Bottling Group chief executive Eric Foss in this Q&A. [more]
Are Overconfident Leaders More Likely to Commit Fraud?: Few executives make it to the top rung of the corporate ladder without a healthy ego, but as this article explains, overconfidence can lead managers to cross ethics boundaries and perpetrate fraud by boxing themselves in. [more]
Bold Moves for Big Wins: The New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. [more]
Job Outlook Good for Class of 2008: With all the talk of a sluggish economy, it may come as a surprise that companies intend to hire more college graduates than they did last year. [more]
Citigroup Will Pay $1.66 billion to Settle Enron Claims: The biggest bank in the United States has agreed to pay Enron Creditors Recovery Corp $1.66 billion to settle a lawsuit alleging that it helped the defunct energy firm mislead its creditors through improper accounting. [more]
Pharmaceutical CFOs' Shift in Focus: CFOs in the pharmaceutical industry need to shift their focus from defensive monitoring and reporting to partnering in an effort to drive growth and manage return, according to 74 percent of respondents in an Ernst & Young global survey. [more]
A Free Pass for the Bear Board?: Aside from chairman Jimmy Cayne, the members of Bear Stearns' board of directors by and large have escaped the media attention and shareholder outrage surrounding the JP Morgan deal. [more]
Employers Fret Over Talent Shortage: Recruiting and keeping talent is currently the biggest challenge for employers, according to the 14th annual Top Five Total Rewards Priorities survey conducted by Deloitte Consulting LLP and the International Society of Certified Employee Benefit Specialists (ISCEBS). [more]
Accounting Tools: Rose-Tinted Glasses?: Basic accounting processes like budgeting and creating financial projections are supposed to provide decision-makers with an accurate, fact-based picture of the business and its future. [more]
Survey: Audit Quality Has Improved: Audit committee members are pleased, overall, with the results of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, according to a study by the Center for Audit Quality. [more]
FASB Pushes for More Disclosure: Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Statement No 161, is intended to provide investors with more transparency into an organization's financial standing, performance, and cash flows. [more]
OECD Downgrades U.S. Economic Outlook: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has reduced its estimate of US growth from 0.3 percent to 0.1 percent for the first quarter of this year. [more]
EU Lures Green Investment: With a mandate to increase renewable energy use throughout Europe by 2020, the European Union is gaining popularity over the United States for investors in the green sector. [more]
SEC Slaps Infomercial Personalities with Fraud Suit: If you've ever seen those late-night infomercials where slick "trading experts" hawk their get-rich-quick workshops, you've probably wished the SEC would come down on them like ten tons of bricks. [more]
Platform Provides View into Governance: RiskMetrics Group has launched Governance Policy Exchange, a platform that provides visibility into leading institutions' corporate governance policies and principles. [more]