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Take the Stairs Instead: The French Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said that hundreds of elevator buttons are contaminated with radioactive materials. [more]
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Accounting Firms Get New Report Cards: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has made it easier for CFOs to monitor the performance of their CPA firm by adopting rules requiring public accounting firms to submit reports that include fees, disciplinary actions, and other information that will be posted on the PCAOB Web site. [more]
Improve Strategy Through Better Metrics: Organizations that design their performance management strategy based on what metrics are readily available and easy to gather fail to reap the greatest benefits from their information assets. [more]
Dashboard Basics Explained: Dashboards are a core part of any BPM initiative because they allow companies to measure and manage their performance. [more]
A Goldmine of Risk Prevention Data: Here's a boon for risk managers: commercial and property insurance giant FM Global has decided to offer thousands of pages of its property loss prevention engineering guidelines for free at its Web site. [more]
Rightsizing the Risks Around Employee Rewards: The risks associated with employee compensation and benefits programs are multitudinous and can be mission-threatening, as the options backdating scandal revealed. [more]
CFOs Zero In on the Cost of Meetings: How much are meetings costing your organization? [more]
At Last, Some Good News: Execs' Confidence Up: Are we pulling out of the slowdown already? [more]
Corporates Weigh In On Political, Economic Outlook: With the economy still shaky and the elections just 8 months away, what do corporate execs see as the main challenges for the rest of 2008? [more]
Are You Getting the Most From Your Sales Comp Plan?: Variable pay is a multi-million dollar cost center and a huge chunk of total compensation in most sales organizations, yet it's doubtful that companies have a good handle on it. [more]
Global Companies' New Responsibility Playbook: If you work in the finance function of a global company and aspire to climb to the top rung of the career ladder, take the first half of the old axiom, "think globally, act locally," very seriously -- even at the "30,000-foot" level. [more]
SEC Proposal: XBRL Mandatory Within 3 Years: Support for the SEC's decision to mandate the use of extensible business reporting language (XBRL) for some regulatory filings has been subdued, but the Commission will push ahead regardless. [more]
Never Mind the GAAP: The likelihood of the SEC requiring companies to file their financial reports using International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) instead of GAAP -- probably by 2013-- appears to be a certainty. [more]
Enforcement Up, Corruption Up: While anti-corruption enforcement has grown stronger worldwide, some executives believe that business practices are becoming more corrupt, according to the Ernst & Young survey "Corruption or compliance — weighing the costs: the 10th global fraud survey. [more]
Hold On Tight to Your CFO: The lure of the top finance job is not what it was, and CFO turnover is at record highs. [more]
The Importance of Image Consciousness: Image isn't everything, but as this article/book review points out, you need to be conscious of how others perceive you if you want to climb to the top rung of the career ladder. [more]
Build Emotional Connections -- Carefully: The main reason people quit their jobs is because they can't connect with their bosses as leaders and as people, as this "how to" on retaining talent points out. [more]
Creative Leadership at Its Best: Meet a CEO who knows how to have fun on the job while never losing focus on the details of day-to-day management. [more]
Taking Charge in a Crisis: Excerpts from an interview with Michael Roth, CEO of Interpublic Group, offer a glimpse into the necessary leadership skills for taking the helm at a time of turbulence. [more]
Strengthening Stakeholder Management Skills: Good leaders understand the importance of managing stakeholder trust but they don't really know how to do so effectively, these academics claim. [more]
Why Leading Companies Support Innovation Prizes: Market leaders realize that offering prizes for innovation can create wealth for the company, as this overview of how several companies score big wins explains. [more]