The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has approved two proposals designed to clarify possible conflicts of interest between a public auditing firm and a potential client by increasing transparency

Financial Executives International says an increase would hurt competitiveness, countering public sentiment that financial executives already make too much

Corporate tax rates have been creeping up, but so have tax breaks. So which to change—rates or preferences?

As if things weren’t already tough enough for hedge funds and private equity firms, what with liquidity drying up faster than you can say Death Valley in the face of the subprime meltdown, yet another congressman is proposing yet another commission to study the impact of these funds on the U.S. economy.

While treasury and tax have very different ways of looking at things sometimes, pairing the two functions up can actually make for a convivial corporate couple under the right treasurer. The combination gets tax thinking beyond mere compliance into strategic advantage and treasury considering the total cost implications of its cash management decisions, as the savvy treasurers of Tiffany and TRW Automotive have come to appreciate.