Features

• Recession? Inflation? Choose Your Poison

  By Staff Writer

  As financial execs write their resolutions for 2008, they might want to consider the wisdom offered Treasury & Risk readers by three economists: M. Cary Leahey, Milton Ezrati and John Lonski

Surveys

• Treasury & Risk's 2008 Biannual Economic Survey

  By Staff Writer

  EXECS AREN'T FACING 2008 WITH A SMILE

• Treasury & Risk's 2008 Strategic Treasurer Survey

  By Staff Writer

  GETTING THE VISIBILITY THAT THEY DESERVE

For Your Information (FYI)

• Any Jobs Open in Mumbai?

  By Staff Writer

  Executives in India can expect salary bumps of 14% in 2008, more than twice the projected average global raise, says Mercer

• PCAOB Seems to Have Teeth

  By Staff Writer

  The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board takes Deloitte & Touche to task for errors in Ligand Pharmaceuticals audit

Washington Update

• Pandemic Pandemonium

  By Staff Writer

  The Fed warns banks: Prepare for a debilitating flu outbreak

News Briefs

• Is the SEC Nervous?

  By Staff Writer

  The SEC postpones Sarbanes-Oxley implementation for small businesses another year, taking time out to again reevaluate Auditing Standard 5

Governance & Accounting

• A Pain in the FAS

  By John Labate

  Few finance executives would argue that there is anything fair about FASB's new fair value rule, and once investors get a taste of its volatility potential, they may not sing its praises either

Retirement & Benefits

• A Better Way to Default

  By Beth Karlin

  With automatic enrollment quickly becoming a standard, companies are looking for better returns on the default options they offer 401(k) participants who don't like to choose

Risk Management

• Sweating Out the ERMs

  By Beth Karlin

  What's your ERM score? Standard & Poor's plans to answer that question. But, first, it's requesting suggestions about the evaluation process from those who are about to be judged

Tools & Technology

• The Honeymoon's Over

  By Beth Karlin

  The marriage of Cognos and Applix has produced its first offsprings, and while the initial announcement is mostly about rebranding, the real integration will start in earnest next year

Treasury Management

• A Mini Revolution

  By Richard Gamble

  Retail operations face problems getting hard cash into the bank quickly. Now, banks are coming to them, through mini-vaults that let them deposit, get credit and sometimes even withdraw

Profile

• Give Her Credit

  By Beth Karlin

  Wake up, credit unions. Denise McGlone is ready to teach you a few lessons when it comes to investing in derivatives and managing risks

People on the Move

• People On The Move

  By Staff Writer

  Merrill Lynch & Co., the $70.6 billion, New York-based financial manage ment and advisory company, has named Nelson Chai executive vice president and CFO. Chai, ...

• The Re-re-invention of the P-Card

  By Richard Gamble

  Cards are pushed as a piece of the payments puzzle and not a stand-alone solution

Editor's Desk

• A Happy New Year?

  By Staff Writer

  If you look at a five-year chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, you would have to wonder what all the whining out of Wall ...