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The New IT Value Proposition: Focus On Business Process Optimization, Not Cost Cutting
White Papers In August 2003, CFO Research Services launched a research program in the United States and Europe to determine how chief financial officers (CFOs) view and value the contributions made by information technology (IT) systems, technologies, and...
[June 3, 2004, 1:03]
Microsoft Executive Circle Webcast: Executive Road Map To Fraud Prevention And Internal Controls: Creating A Culture Of Compliance
White Papers Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, chief executive officers and chief financial officers must personally attest to the accuracy of financial statements and that their companies have the necessary internal controls to prevent and detect fraud.
[April 14, 2007, 1:01]
Execs Outline The Importance Of CFOs
News Executives from a number of well-known companies, including technology stalwart Google and business applications vendor SAS Institute, spoke of the rapidly expanding list of duties assigned to today's chief financial officers at an event in Newton...
[November 22, 2004, 8:35]
Micro Focus: IT Faces 'dire Shortage' Of Core Skills
News The survey, conducted with the Insead business school, was carried out among 450 chief financial officers, chief information officers and human-resources directors in France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, in companies with revenue from $100m...
[December 1, 2008, 17:11]
Business And Tech Execs Clash On Disaster Preparedness
News The business leaders polled included senior financial executives such as chief financial officers and chief executive officers, according to EMC. Information technology leaders surveyed included senior IT executives in business units and chief...
[July 14, 2003, 8:22]
IT Professionals Face Tough Market
News A report released by IT professional outsourcing firm Robert Half Technology showed chief technology officers in US companies expect few changes in their IT workforce size next quarter. The poll surveyed more than 1,400 chief information officers...
[November 26, 2002, 9:58]
Quick Take: The CIO And The CEO
White Papers In the past, chief information officers (CIO) and chief executive officers (CEO) have tried to live together. In the 1980s and for most of the 1990s, their paths rarely crossed — the CEO didn't think much about technology and the CIO rarely...
[March 6, 2007, 0:00]
Financial Management: Effective Implementation Of FFMIA Is Key To Providing Reliable, Useful, And Timely Data
White Papers FFMIA builds on the foundation laid by the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990 by emphasizing the need for agencies to have financial management systems that can generate timely, accurate, and useful information with which to make informed...
[May 25, 2005, 3:00]
Blowing Up The Budget: Transforming The Pharmaceutical CFO Agenda
White Papers In a survey of chief financial officers (CFOs), only 12% of respondents believed that budgets added a lot of value to their organisation. The annual budget remains one of the most time-consuming activities in the corporate calendar and, arguably...
[April 26, 2005, 3:00]
The CFO Act And Federal Financial Management: The End Of The Beginning
White Papers There has been clear progress, and the current fifteen year anniversary of the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act is a good time to recognize the many accomplishments within federal financial management.
[March 24, 2006, 0:01]
Performance Budgeting: Efforts To Restructure Budgets To Better Align Resources With Performance
White Papers Key components of this framework include the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act, and the Government Management Reform Act (GMRA). Over the last decade, Congress, the Office of Management and Budget...
[June 17, 2005, 3:00]
Increasing Profits From The Inside Out... A Capital Idea
White Papers Accenture works with forward thinking executives, including Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs), to help solve a fundamental and heretofore unanswered question: "How can Capital Markets companies capture and optimize the savings from high...
[September 15, 2005, 3:00]
Ellison: You Can Trust Oracle's Finances
News The SEC set 14 August as the deadline for chief executives and chief financial officers to file a written statement under oath that a company's financial statements are correct to the best of their knowledge.
[July 31, 2002, 11:31]
CIOs Urged: Offer Business Analytics Or Lose Budget
News Blosch expects that some chief financial officers (CFOs) will use the outsourcing and offshoring phenomenon to demand that IT budgets remain flat or even be reduced in the coming years. Chief information officers who want to protect their IT budget...
[November 21, 2007, 12:17]
Retired House Of Fraser IT Boss Won't Be Replaced
News House of Fraser's decision not to replace Berridge could be a sign retail sector chief financial officers are taking on more responsibility for their company IT strategy. Frank Berridge, the retailer's IT director, has left to begin his retirement...
[August 2, 2007, 13:49]
Apple Defends Steve Jobs In Options Row
News Earlier this year, one of Apple's former chief financial officers quit the company's board of directors after the internal probe found evidence of some irregularities in stock option allocation. In its delayed annual report, published early on...
[December 29, 2006, 11:10]
Yahoo! Launches Advice Site
News Meanwhile, LiveAdvice-rival Keen, which is backed by eBay, went through a management shakeup last week, firing its chief executive and chief financial officers. The companies did not disclose other or more specific financial terms of the deal.
[April 30, 2002, 9:03]
Staff Training Is Vital For Security
News Security researchers have warned that chief information officers are likely to see more and more blended security threats within the next couple of years. Chief information officers should be thinking about that and educating staff members," he said.
[June 20, 2002, 10:21]
IT Pros: Where Will You Be In Five Years?
News As IT becomes both increasingly commoditised and increasingly specialised, I wonder if we can expect managers in general, and chief executive officers/chief financial officers in particular, to be sufficiently IT-aware that they can make their own...
[November 27, 2002, 14:11]
Tech Firms Blame Europe For Slow Growth
News Chief information officers said stingy chief financial officers, who are looking to hold costs down as revenue dries up, were the primary reason for their pessimism. Merrill surveyed 50 chief information officers in the United States and 15 chief...
[July 12, 2001, 15:41]
