This Week's Features
Virtually every company is 30 to 40 percent unprofitable by any measure, with profit information unseen, unmeasured and unaddressed. Companies can reverse these losses with three essential steps that reveal embedded losses and generate new streams of profits.
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The thirst for more precise and illuminating analytics has never been greater, but we're still struggling with the more important step: deriving knowledge from this information.
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Rigorous due diligence and thoughtful execution can identify and limit risk. Here are ways to execute a planned and measured integration, while avoiding common pitfalls.
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22nd Edition: SOX Compliance & Evolution to GRC Conference
November 15-16, 2011
Chicago, IL
This conference will bring together leading SOX and Compliance practitioners to review the required
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Corporate Finance
As sales and marketing's expenses come under greater scrutiny, forward-looking and engaged CFOs can promote greater collaboration through the use of analytics that provide clear, timely insight, without stifling the innovation that drives growth.
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Establishing global process ownership and improving quality while also lowering costs can seem like an insurmountable challenge. It isn't. The key is developing a better understanding of what is truly possible and building an internal case for change based on fact, not myth.
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Human Resources
Role models, predetermined actions, and guiding principles should all play critical roles in times of decision-making, says Overstock.com's internal audit director, in an exclusive column for Business Finance on the role of ethics within organizations.
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Report shows the average annual premium for family coverage through an employer reached $15,073 in 2011, an increase of 9 percent from a year ago.
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Tax
The Voluntary Worker Classification Program (VCSP) offers an opportunity for businesses, tax-exempt and government entities to fix the improper classification of independent contractors who should be classified as an employee and avoid an IRS audit at the same time.
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With so many misunderstandings about the tax law, firms will need to take proactive approaches to acquire the necessary resources and expertise to be in compliance.
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Software and Systems
A total of 3.8 million data records were compromised across 760 reported data breaches in 2010, according to a study conducted by the Verizon RISK Team. Actually, this is good news, says Business Finance technology blogger Alan Radding.
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Upcoming Webinars
Executives today are under pressure to keep pace with rapid global change and demonstrate results faster than ever before. But in a climate of financial and political uncertainty, and permanent volatility, organizations have struggled to implement strategies that achieve successful results. On Oct. 20 join Bob Paladino, a longtime implementation practitioner and guru in the Corporate Performance Management field, as he shares his research on human capital's innovative contributions to achieving company strategy and related case studies from award-winning organizations. Learn how your organization can use five key principals of CPM to implement business strategies successfully by linking them to your budget.
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