- Sustainability Reporting: Straight to the Bottom Line
CFOs at 250 of the world's largest companies use comprehensive reporting that provides data on nonfinancial factors to cut risk and ensure future performance. [more]
- Informal Networking Reaps Huge Returns
Knowledge sharing has long swirled beneath the surface in corporate life, but now many companies are organizing or beefing up informal networks to capitalize on the innovations and cost savings generated by these communities of practice. [more]
- Da Bears, or the Colts?: Bull, or Bear Market?
Sick and tired of all the "blah, blah, blah" about this year's Super Bowl? [more]
- Getting Transfer Pricing Right
Setting your sights on global growth? [more]
- CEOs More Positive Than Ever on Growth Prospects
PricewaterhouseCoopers' 10th Annual Global CEO Survey reveals that CEOs' confidence in capital gains is at an unprecedented high. [more]
- Are Star Performers Worth the Big Bucks? In a Word, Yes ...
There's a strong correlation between companies' success at attracting and retaining top talent and their ability to generate higher return on investment and increase shareholder value, according to research by Hewitt Associates. [more]
- Best Practices in Contract Management
Fifty-six percent of companies' annual revenue, on average, is governed by contracts, according to an Aberdeen Group survey of 189 enterprises across a wide range of industries -- and survey respondents expect that proportion to rise to 68 percent in 2 years. [more]
- Great Employers Reward Investors Too
If your company treats -- and pays -- its employees better than most, it's likely that your shareholders are also doing very well. [more]
- Six Sigma's Black Belts Lose A Round to MVT
Looking for a set of process tools to increase efficiency, cut costs and improve your organization's performance? [more]
- Does It Pay To Be Nice?
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has emerged as an important consideration for investors and companies alike, and companies' charitable giving is a key component -- but does corporate philanthropy boost the bottom line? [more]
- BPM Moves Into Operations
If you're confused about what BPM 2.0 really means, don't roll your eyes just yet. [more]
- Breaking Down Barriers to Growth
Global growth will slow in 2007 as ongoing political crises rattle consumers and capital markets and economic imbalances push up prices and cut into trade. [more]
- Accounting Needs to Change With the Times
Entwining statutory and management accounting is a common holdover from the "old days" of paper-based accounting and rigid IT processes, and Ventana Research warns that smart companies need to divide these disciplines into parallel processes for optimal efficiency. [more]
- Inflation Scare Over (For Now)
With the energy price surge behind us and a stable Consumer Price Index (CPI), most economists are saying that key inflation measures should be within the Fed's comfort zone in the coming year. [more]
- A Best-Case Scenario for Pandemic Planning
National and global agencies say that the occurrence of a human pandemic influenza is a matter of "when" rather than "if," likely to disrupt organizations on a much longer and more widespread basis than a Category 5 hurricane, a terrorist attack or most other kinds of natural or man-made disasters. [more]
- Finding the ROI in Wellness Programs
Corporate wellness programs can help businesses control health-care spending -- but not unless they understand what they're getting for their money. [more]
- Strategies for Financial Supply Chain Optimization
A new Aberdeen Group Benchmark Report, "New Strategies for Financial Supply Chain Optimization: Rethinking Financial Practices with Your Suppliers to Maximize Bottom Line Performance," finds that best-in-class buying organizations achieve significant benefits from optimizing their financial supply chain with the help of supply chain finance innovations. [more]
- Structuring Global Banking Relationships
Did you know that in Brazil, most of the paperwork required to open a corporate bank account must be in Portuguese? [more]
- Finance Must Play a Role in Sales and Operations Planning
New research shows that companies that regularly merge financial forecasts with sales and operational plans (S&OP) report the largest gains in revenue, margins, inventory turns and customer satisfaction. [more]
- Consumer Markets Companies Investing in Emerging Markets
KPMG's Global Transaction Services Consumer Markets group has released a new white paper that highlights a study of more than 77 global consumer markets companies' executives who have made investments in emerging markets -- chiefly China, India and Brazil -- to slash operating costs, reach large numbers of new consumers, and achieve impressive GDP growth rates. [more]
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