Converging next month on Vancouver, Canada, will be an international assembly of regulators, institutional investors, equity exchange executives, banks, CFOs, controllers and other senior finance executives to discuss XBRL and other ways to make business data more interactive, reliable, timely and accessible.
FXpress Corp., the treasury and risk management software provider, has released a timely set of enhancements to its FIRST Web-based treasury workstation for corporate finance departments struggling to establish a compliance plan under FAS 157 and FAS 159.
Thanks to a joint venture of IBM, the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) and Deutsche Bank, treasurers may soon to be able to answer that question--with metrics to prove it.
As Oracle Corp. was attempting to focus the software spotlight on its OpenWorld 2007 show in San Francisco, IBM Corp. stole its thunder by announcing its acquisition of Cognos Inc. for $5 billion in a move to expand its business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) repertoire.
H&R Block, the $4 billion provider of tax, financial, accounting and business consulting services and products, based in Kansas City, Mo., has named Becky S. Shulman, senior vice president and treasurer, as interim CFO. Shulman, 43, replaces William L. Trubeck, who resigned as executive vice president and CFO.
As Oracle Corp. was attempting to focus the software spotlight on its OpenWorld 2007 show in San Francisco, IBM Corp. stole its thunder by announcing its acquisition of Cognos Inc. for $5 billion in a move to expand its business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) repertoire.
Five years after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act took effect, about one-fourth of internal audit managers surveyed by Protiviti Inc. say they have comfortably moved SOX concerns to the back burner as they refocus on traditional responsibilities.
