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Judge rules wal-mart violated labor laws
The recession is drive hordes of client to Wal-Mart stores as workers stock up for fourthly of July barbecues and picnics, and its sunny new logo unveiled this week reflects good times for the mega-discount retailer. But the company's reputation for unfai Jul 4 2008
The right way and the wrong way to cut costs
The good news is that companies these days treat cost containment as a subject and an ongoing process instead than reactively. The not-so-good news is that they tend to focus on minor, low-yield initiatives and on squeeze expense out of their procedure. A Jul 4 2008
Dropping the other shoe
It's no secret that the focus of policymakers and financial markets has dramatically shifted since March. Rising prices has overtaken the recognition crunch as the telephone exchange story, much in the same way that Obama overtook Hilary. Is it me, or has Jul 2 2008
Foreign investors still feasting on u.s. securities
oversea investors continue to gobble up exchequer notes and bonds -- a must for the United States to continue financing the trade shortage. The exchequer Department's most recent report shows that net foreign investment in long-maturing government securit Jun 27 2008
The 7 merger types -- and why none of them work
contempt the growth volume of survey purporting to show that most M&A deals fail to create shareholder value, companies seem unable to resist the urge to merge. It's all too easy to succumb to the allurement of an seemingly game-changing deal. A new s Jun 12 2008
No sweet deal for u.s. sugar employees
Should employee owners have a say in issues relating to the acquisition of the company they work for? That's a key inquiry in the stockholder class action lawsuit brought against U.S. Sugar by employees.Legally, company management is inside its rights to Jun 11 2008
Can cfos keep doing it all?
CFOs are eager to develop their role as strategic business spouse to the CEO, but their hands are still tied by conformity and corporate governance duty. That's the pith of an Ernst & Young study of more than 250 C-suite and board level execs at $1 bi Jun 10 2008
We can work it out: playing the restructuring card
concern Finance: What are some of the signs that a company might want to look at a financial rework?Saint Andrew P. Hines: There are the external indicators -- defaults, board members leaving, recalls -- which you see all the time. And then there are the Jun 6 2008
Setbacks for shareholder activists
Big oil company profits trumped governance reform at Exxon Mobil Corp.'s annual meeting. A proposal to offprint the president and CEO jobs garnered an anemic 39.5 percent of votes cast, edging down somewhat from last year contempt support from members of Jun 5 2008
What keeps ceos awake at night?
The originator behind IBM's global CEO study is nicknamed "the maestro of sociable glue" inside the company. After flipping through the third loop of the biannual report, it's easy to see why. The (titled "The endeavor of the hereafter") is tightly writt May 24 2008
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 calling ladder, take the first half of the old axiom, "think globally, act locally," very earnestly -- even at the "30,000-foot" level. That's because herea May 21 2008
Hp's technology services power play
Hewlett Packard Co.'s acquisition of global technology services company Electronic Data scheme Corp., say analysts, will challenge IBM's place as marketplace leader -- if HP with success integrates the two companies. As everyone knows, integrating is wher May 17 2008
A new balance of power for wachovia
The Ag lining in the mortgage mess is that it may speed up the separation of the CEO and president role at financial companies. But whether that's a good thing or not remains a topic for argument in some one-fourth. The board of directors at Wachovia Corp May 14 2008
Broadcom to pay big price for options backdating
Companies that once lured talented new hires with generous stock options -- the value of which they manipulated -- continue to get their deserts. The SEC is quest big penalties against companies these days for backdating stock option grants to dates when Apr 25 2008
Are the costs of internal audit too high?
Too often, a company's internal audit mathematical function is left untouched by its finance transformation attempt, says Dennis Bartolucci, US leader, internal audit services, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Hear Bartolucci describe new emerging models in in Apr 15 2008
Whistle-blowing requires persistence
The more I learn about the actual experiences of whistle-blowers, the less I like the term. The phrase has a “tattler” ring to it; it calls to mind a individual who snitches from a safe distance. That couldn’t be further from the truth in most cases Apr 15 2008
A legal solution to your subprime blues?
What precisely caused the subprime mortgage nuclear meltdown? Was it triggered by mortgage defaults driven by marketplace conditions, such as rise interest rates, and hence unavoidable?Or was it the consequence of misdirection that permitted lax or predat Apr 5 2008 |