December-January 2007

Microsoft's treasurer leads his company in a revolution in cash management

Not only do funds sometimes control more than a company can see, they often have hedged away the risk

HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. named Catherine A. Lesjak executive vice president and CFO; she succeeds Robert P. Wayman, who is retiring. Lesjak, 47, has served as senior ...

Whether or not you are at a high-profile company like Google or Eli Lilly, CFOs are under constant scrutiny from top management, the board, shareholders, analysts and regulators these days. CFOs are definitely being watched. But some admittedly deserve the attention more than others. This year's choice of Google's George...

The influx of Democrats to the new Congress in January will mean a number of new business-focused priorities -- with prescription drug reform and a minimum wage hike among them

H. Glen Walker, CFO of the U.S. Postal Service, is delivering private-sector know-how to the mammoth government agency

The best story on supply chain risk is in the numbers--companies that don't have strategies in place to cover disruption pay in share price

After scandals at Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., the nation was outraged: Top management was not always working in the best interest of employees or ...

American Express' entry into the EIPP market has raised hopes that the entire supply chain automation sector will expand, thanks to bigger investment, AmEx's global presence and increased synergy with P-cards

No one loves having to wade through healthcare plan options, but with online tools by Asparity, employees can find the plan that best suits them and employers receive data that can improve their policies

WILL CRITICS BE SATISFIED?Now that regulators have released their proposals for overhauling compliance guidelines for Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the real work begins ...

The odds increase for more and better oversight from the new Congress

Leasing solution provider Captara Corp. released new functionality to give customers better visibility into, and control over, their real estate leases, through a web-based, on-demand application

Standard & Poor's is expanding its inclusion of enterprise risk management into the credit ratings of all companies

Hyperion and Google have teamed up to take away the pain that often comes with searching for the right document in a complicated bpm system, with an advance in search technology called Smart Search

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