Most Recent Articles from Financial Executive

• Bank CFO pay and performance: mixed relationship.(COMPENSATION)(chief financial officers) 

  A study of the relationship between executive pay and banks' financial performance found that changes in pay were effectively random relative to...

  10/01/09 by Bisson, Dave · More from publication

• Analyzing the Inc. 500 List.(private companies) 

  During 2006, 2007 and 2008, the U.S. gross domestic product grew at 2.7 percent, 2.1 percent and .4 percent, respectively, according to the...

  10/01/09 by Kroll, Karen · More from publication

• Improve collections get a 'new attitude': credit has become an important element in the business of doing business, yet in this economy many firms are struggling to pay bills, which is, in turn, causing havoc for the receiving firm's budgeting and cash-fl 

  The long list of ills resulting from the financial meltdown that started in 2007 includes a backlash that many companies are experiencing due to...

  10/01/09 by Perlmutter, Norman H. · More from publication

• An ounce of prevention more than a pound of cure: the national debate over health-care reform started out correctly focused on issues of spending, treatment and coverage. But it may have given short shrift to one area of potential cost containment that co 

  During the often brackish battle over the future of health care in the United States, the debate frequently centered on ways to corral the...

  10/01/09 by Ladd, Scott · More from publication

• On the hot seat with today's challenges: today's directors face more difficult challenges than did their cohorts of several years ago. And though calm seemingly had returned to board-rooms following the rash of business scandals earlier this decade, the f 

  There's been a pendulum swing for boards of directors since the early-decade failures of Enron Corp., WorldCom Inc. and others, as well as new...

  10/01/09 by Steinberg, Richard M. · More from publication

• Treasury resiliency: emerging from the financial crisis.(TREASURY) 

  One result of the ongoing financial crisis has been the enhanced visibility of the treasurer's role. More than ever, treasurers are depended upon...

  10/01/09 by Jeffery, Craig · More from publication

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