Economy

While funding and managing capital needs rule the day now, the future of treasury will be more about the power of information, speed and flexibility, and better technology.

Finance executives at companies with revenues of $2 billion or less last year ranked an economic slowdown as their worst fear.

Are taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars for a credit crisis that may have been overblown? Who is the bailout really helping?

It's official. Ninety-six percent of senior financial executives agree we're in a recession. Still, they remain a little--not a lot--more hopeful about economic conditions a year from now.

Economists Stephen Stanley of RBS Greenwich Capital Markets, M. Cary Leahey of Decision Economics and Keith Wade of Schroders peer into the future.

CFOs Tom Schoewe of Wal-Mart, Jeffrey Burchill of FM Global and Jeffrey Henderson of Cardinal Health set their courses for the future.

It's late September and the financial world looks a lot like the Texas coast after Hurricane Ike: a shambles of its former self.

The biggest factor in play in the election may be how a likely Democratic U.S. House and Senate will impact policies that affect corporate America.