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Weird Weddings Hit the West Coast: Weddings got wacky on the West Coast last weekend. [more]
Wisconsin Man Shoots His Lawn Mower: A drunken Milwaukee, Wis., man is in trouble with the law for shooting his lawn mower when it wouldn't start. [more]
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How Top Companies Build Better Leaders: Fortune Magazine's list of the top 20 global companies for leadership includes household names like General Electric and Proctor & Gamble as well as lesser-known companies such as Natura Cosmeticos and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. [more]
10 Best Practices for Co-Sourcing Internal Audit: Bringing in outside expertise can help internal audit departments meet ever-increasing demands, but like any outsourcing initiative, internal co-sourcing calls for careful due diligence. [more]
The 7 Merger Types -- And Why None of Them Work: A new study from AT Kearney offers insights that might make even the most gung-ho growth strategist pause, but also suggests ways that companies bent on acquisitions can increase their chances of success. [more]
Risk-Adjusted Performance: A Primer: CFOs can play a key role in developing a realistic, risk-aware performance management strategy to help their organization neutralize threats, exploit opportunities, and avoid nasty surprises. [more]
Characteristics of SOX Compliance Leaders: The primary insight of a new KPMG report on Sarbanes-Oxley compliance progress is that the majority of companies have shifted from a "get it done" compliance mentality to a "make it business as usual. [more]
Accounting Firms Get New Report Cards: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has made it easier for CFOs to monitor the performance of their CPA firm by adopting rules requiring public accounting firms to submit reports that include fees, disciplinary actions, and other information that will be posted on the PCAOB Web site. [more]
Improve Strategy Through Better Metrics: Organizations that design their performance management strategy based on what metrics are readily available and easy to gather fail to reap the greatest benefits from their information assets. [more]
Dashboard Basics Explained: Dashboards are a core part of any BPM initiative because they allow companies to measure and manage their performance. [more]
A Goldmine of Risk Prevention Data: Here's a boon for risk managers: commercial and property insurance giant FM Global has decided to offer thousands of pages of its property loss prevention engineering guidelines for free at its Web site. [more]
Rightsizing the Risks Around Employee Rewards: The risks associated with employee compensation and benefits programs are multitudinous and can be mission-threatening, as the options backdating scandal revealed. [more]
CFOs Zero In on the Cost of Meetings: How much are meetings costing your organization? [more]
At Last, Some Good News: Execs' Confidence Up: Are we pulling out of the slowdown already? [more]
Corporates Weigh In On Political, Economic Outlook: With the economy still shaky and the elections just 8 months away, what do corporate execs see as the main challenges for the rest of 2008? [more]
Are You Getting the Most From Your Sales Comp Plan?: Variable pay is a multi-million dollar cost center and a huge chunk of total compensation in most sales organizations, yet it's doubtful that companies have a good handle on it. [more]
Global Companies' New Responsibility Playbook: If you work in the finance function of a global company and aspire to climb to the top rung of the career ladder, take the first half of the old axiom, "think globally, act locally," very seriously -- even at the "30,000-foot" level. [more]
SEC Proposal: XBRL Mandatory Within 3 Years: Support for the SEC's decision to mandate the use of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for some regulatory filings has been subdued, but the Commission will push ahead regardless. [more]
Never Mind the GAAP: The likelihood of the SEC requiring companies to file their financial reports using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) instead of GAAP -- probably by 2013-- appears to be a certainty. [more]
Enforcement Up, Corruption Up: While anti-corruption enforcement has grown stronger worldwide, some executives believe that business practices are becoming more corrupt, according to the Ernst & Young survey "Corruption or compliance — weighing the costs: the 10th global fraud survey. [more]
Hold On Tight to Your CFO: The lure of the top finance job is not what it was, and CFO turnover is at record highs. [more]
The Importance of Image Consciousness: Image isn't everything, but as this article/book review points out, you need to be conscious of how others perceive you if you want to climb to the top rung of the career ladder. [more]