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Man Sets Hotel Fire To Avoid His Wedding: A Japanese man tried to get out of his wedding by setting fire to the hotel where the ceremony was supposed to take place. [more]
Birth Order May Affect Career Choices: According to a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com, birth order seems to affect people's career choices. [more]
CNN Beams Up Correspondent: CNN used its new 3-D hologram technology to "beam" correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago to Wolf Blitzer's studio in New York during election coverage. [more]
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BPM Enters the Age of Carbon Finance: As green projects and sustainability reporting take hold, companies will be looking to their CFOs to ensure that disclosures are accurate and that initiatives benefit the bottom line as well as the state of the planet. [more]
Employers Ponder Health-Care Options: With another year of stiff health-care premium increases looking likely for 2009, companies are casting about for alternatives to the well worn cost-shifting strategy. [more]
Beating the Odds in M&A: The chances of success may be no better than 50-50. [more]
Performance Management in a Nutshell: If you're searching for a basic explanation of performance management, look no further. [more]
Corporate Decision Support Still Shaky: Efficient decision-making is critical for managing performance, but many organizations struggle to provide reliable information to decision-makers, according to a new Ventana Research report. [more]
BI Moves to the Classroom: If you don't have employees trained in using business intelligence (BI) technologies, it's difficult to get full value from the tools. [more]
Strategy Execution Requires a Management System: Companies need more than a good strategy to be successful. [more]
BI Competency Center Aids Implementation: As the amount of data companies must store continues to grow, managing the information effectively has become more important than ever, according to a new report from IDC. [more]
SEPA 101: The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is now in full swing in Europe and showing every sign of success, but US companies by and large have been slow to reap the potential benefits. [more]
PCAOB Prevails in Lawsuit: The efforts of a Washington-based conservative think tank, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) to bring down the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) were thwarted by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. [more]
Time to Put Your G/L on a Diet?: Dating back to the days of the mainframe, general ledgers have grown steadily flabbier as companies have piled more and more detail into their chart of accounts. [more]
Transfer Pricing Under the Microscope: Tax authorities in the United States and around the world are stepping up their scrutiny of multinational companies' cross-border transfers. [more]
Getting to Grips With Spreadsheet Risk: Sarbanes-Oxley was a wake-up call, but few companies had the time to get methodical about spreadsheet risk management. [more]
Are You Ready for Carbon Finance?: John McCain and Barack Obama both want to introduce a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions. [more]
U.S. Corporate Taxes 50 Percent Higher Than OECD Average: Many countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have cut their corporate tax rates in the last few years -- but not the United States. [more]
A Guide to Evaluating Best Practices: Following proven business methodologies can improve a company's performance, but often these so-called best practices fail to live up to their flattering handle. [more]
Weather the Economic Downturn with BI and BPM: In an economic downturn, cutting costs may not be enough to keep you in the black. [more]
Separating Capital From Results Improves Performance: Companies can only effectively manage their performance when they separate the capital they use in their activities from the results those activities produce, according to management consultant Harry Greene. [more]
A Guide to Business Location: If you're looking at expanding your operations internationally you need to know how the various regions and cities around the world stack up in terms of business costs. [more]
A New Map of the GRC Universe: The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG) has released an updated version of its GRC Capability Model, aka the Red Book. [more]