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Connecting the dots to the next crisis: foreseeing impending disaster involves watching for it, but spotting the signs may not be on the radar of those responsible. Following what the nation has been through recently, will this change?(RISK MANAGEMENT)
The current financial crisis is hurting--both profits and pocketbooks--but what really stings is the fact that so few saw it coming. The...
Financial Executive, 04/01/09 by Cheney, Glenn · More from publication -
$56000000,000,000 will the federal debt become yours?(ECONOMY)(David Walker)
Can you imagine running an organization with more than $56 trillion in debt? The caveat: you can keep most of the total off your books--but it's...
Financial Executive, 12/01/08 by Cheney, Glenn A. · More from publication -
Are your internal controls sufficient? Companies have made Herculean efforts to improve their internal controls to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404, but the improvements sometimes go wanting. Some believe a lapse of a Societe Generale magnitude coul
How much internal control is enough? Financial executives should be relieved to know that that question has no correct answer. It's unfortunate,...
Financial Executive, 05/01/08 by Cheney, Glenn · More from publication -
If IFRS offer the answer, they sure raise a lot of questions: as SEC talk turns to actions--towards accepting one set of accounting standards worldwide--serious concerns for American regulators and U.S. GAAP-filing companies surface and need to be address
For America's financial executives who haven't kept up with the latest accounting news, a call this summer for comments from the U.S. Securities...
Financial Executive, 11/01/07 by Cheney, Glenn A. · More from publication -
Soul-searching over U.S. competitiveness: much attention and hand-wringing have come over U.S. capital markets' perceived loss of stature. Committees are studying the issue and considering change, but the evidence of a swoon is far from conclusive.(CAPITA
A global economy has always seemed like a good idea, and the best part was being at the center of the universe, so to speak--in the U.S., or,...
Financial Executive, 06/01/07 by Cheney, Glenn Alan · More from publication -
Regulation: a help or hindrance to business growth?(FEI@75)(financial reporting)
It's more coincidence than cause and effect, but Financial Executives International and substantial financial regulation were born at just about...
Financial Executive, 09/01/06 by Cheney, Glenn Alan; Hills, Roderick M. · More from publication -
Making sense of revenue recognition: revenue "mis-recognition," the leading cause of restatement, has been soaring, likely due to the myriad of more than 200 pronouncements by standard-setters. FASB has revenue recognition on its agenda--for 200
Three thousand years ago, revenue recognition was not a problem. You traded so many goats for so many sacks of wool. When you got home, you...
Financial Executive, 07/01/06 by Cheney, Glenn A. · More from publication -
Born into darkness: FEI in the 1930s; Financial Executives International (FEI) was born against a backdrop of deep economic troubles. The organization was launched to help financial executives set the professional and ethical tone for their peers for deca
It was a terrible time in the U.S., the dark December of 1931. Eight million workers had no work. Banks closed. Businesses failed. Investment...
Financial Executive, 01/01/06 by Cheney, Glenn Alan · More from publication -
Under pressure
IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE KATRINA, RISING FUEL PRICES AND MILITARY INFRACTIONS, THE US ECONOMY IS UNDER CONSIDERABLE PRESSURE The US is an...
Intheblack, 12/01/05 by Cheney, Glenn · More from publication -
Expensing stock options: the rule is final; Or is it? Most companies following new accounting rules since June 15 have begun to expense stock options. But others--including private and smaller public companies--insist the struggle to reject or modify the
It's happening. After a struggle of more than 10 years, Financial Accounting Standard No. 123(R) is going into effect. Since June 15, certain...
Financial Executive, 09/01/05 by Cheney, Glenn · More from publication
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