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From:Journal of Accountancy (Vol. 181, Issue 3)Passage of the Chief Financial Officers Act in 1990 signaled the beginning of efforts to improve federal agency financial accountability by holding the government to auditing standards similar to those placed on private...
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From:Journal of Accountancy (Vol. 174, Issue 1)Edward J. Mazur has been appointed to head the Office of Federal Financial Management under the 1990 Chief Financial Officers Act and expresses optimism over chances to reform the waste, mismanagement and fraud in...
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From:Defense A R Journal (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990 requires the DoD to produce private sector-style financial statements that can win unqualified opinions from auditors. After many years of effort to comply, the department...
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From:Nature Biotechnology (Vol. 32, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedCompugen (Tel Aviv) has named Ari Krashin CFO, with direct responsibility for all financial and legal functions of the company. Krashin has over 15 years of experience in finance, investor relations, M&A and business...
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From:Strategic Finance (Vol. 83, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedInternational experience will be a career plus for finance and accounting professionals five years from now. That's what Robert Half International found out in a recent poll of chief financial officers as part of its...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 19, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFormer chairman Phillips passes away. Herbert A. Phillips Jr., national chairman of FEI in 1989-90 and a member since 1969, died in late April. Phillips was also chairman of IAFEI, the international group of...
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From:Ivey Business Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 3)Traditional business models have left finance professionals at a disadvantage for dealing with the drastic changes in North American and global business. The authors believe it is time for finance executives to use their...
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From:Management Accounting (USA) (Vol. 80, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedFinancial executives need to lead their organizations' efforts to replace their old information systems with new ones that are more effective and responsive to organizational needs. Such change initiatives often fail...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedHeidrick & Struggles CEO Patrick S. Pittard claims that the results of a survey conducted by his company in conjunction with the Financial Executives Institute regarding the role of chief financial officers (CFOs) are in...
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From:Healthcare Financial Management (Vol. 53, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedExperience in operations is a valued asset among chief financial officers (CFOs). CFOs with operations experience often become effective in handling a wide array of institutional responsibilities and in developing...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 15, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJeff Henley, the current chief financial officer of Oracle Corp, believes that defining an attainable corporate vision is critical to the success of firms, particularly those involved in computer software manufacturing....
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe idea of a visionary chief financial officer (CFO) is a relatively new concept yet it appears to be incompatible with the corporate CFO function. Typical CFOs are anything other than persons who can envision the...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 6, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe evolution of the role of the chief financial officer (CFO) in corporations from 1970 to 1990 has created changes in CFOs' occupational requirements. To remain successful in the 1990s, CFOs will have to increase...
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From:Government Computer News (Vol. 10, Issue 11)Sen. John Glenn is drafting an oversight plan to require chief financial officers (CFOs) of federal agencies to face two rounds of confirmation hearings under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990. The CFO Act...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 8, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlex J. Mandl is tasked with overseeing the central information resource function of the telecommunications giant AT and T in his position as chief financial officer (CFO). This central information resource function,...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFinancial executives should consider buying individual disability insurance to make sure that they have adequate coverage in case they become disabled and could not continue working. Although employer-provided disability...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 6, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedA survey of chief financial officers (CFOs) with multinational corporations was conducted by KPMG Peat Marwick and Business International Corp to ascertain changes in the role of the CFO. Survey results reveal that...
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCFOs should cultivate an ongoing relationship with executive search firms regardless of whether they are currently employed or not. Benefits can still be derived from search firms even if financial executives are...
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From:Management Accounting (USA) (Vol. 76, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe growing importance of information technology (IT) in many financial management decisions inevitably means closer coordination between chief financial officers (CFOs) and chief information officers (CIOs)....
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From:Financial Executive (Vol. 11, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFour financial executives discuss the techniques they employ in managing risks in their companies. David Rusate, assistant treasurer of General Electric, says his approach is to help business units understand direct and...