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Today in Finance November 28, 2009

Which of Your Customers Are Credit Risks?

One in seven midcap companies is a potential credit risk for its suppliers, according to a new report from CFO Financial Benchmarks.

The 2009 Credit Risk Benchmarking Report examines 550 midcap companies and provides a quick way to gauge which ones may warrant closer scrutiny by your credit department. The report is available for download for $50. A sample report, including company names, is available free.

» Click here to learn more

Features

  • Possession Is 100% of the Tax Law

    The accrual of some disputed payments may garner a deduction. But a company has to have control of the deferred funds. November 23, 2009

  • IFRS: Jekyll or Hyde?

    U.S. adoption of global accounting standards would be intended to create a level global playing field, but within U.S. borders, its benefits would differ dramatically from company to company. November 20, 2009

  • How to Wreck Your Company's Valuation

    Avoid reconciling GAAP and non-GAAP reporting, providing metrics used in business modeling, or breaking out the results of acquired companies, and that will do the trick, a top analyst says. November 17, 2009

  • Ghosts of Barbarians Limit New NOL Carrybacks

    A specter of the old Barbarians at the Gate era emerges as companies hoping to take advantage of the net-operating-loss tax rules enacted last week may be limited by a 20-year-old law passed after the RJR Nabisco leveraged buyout. November 16, 2009

  • A CFO's Strategy: Verticals Within Verticals

    Lawson Software's Rob Schriesheim keeps the focus on six customer markets, allocating capital where growth prospects are strongest, and slashing costs with aggressive offshoring. November 12, 2009

  • Doing the Internal Audit-Management Dance

    A biotherapy firm's continuous controls monitoring program, which is essentially run by its internal audit team, is credited with creating numerous (though unquantifiable) benefits. November 10, 2009

  • Congress Waters Down FASB-Oversight Plan

    An amendment to the in-progress Financial Stability Improvement Act would allow financial regulators to review accounting standards but give them no final authority. November 23, 2009

  • CFOs High-five on 404 Rollback Bill

    But some accounting experts despair over a resulting lack of checks on management's assessment of internal controls of financial reporting. November 18, 2009

  • Keep Bank Regulators Away from FASB: SEC Commissioner

    Commissioner Elisse Walter hopes to squelch a legislative proposal that would make FASB subject to oversight by banking regulators. Other critics say the proposal might allow banks themselves to influence accounting. November 17, 2009

  • Business Models Matter (for Accounting, That Is)

    With the first in a trio of rules on financial instruments, the IASB requires companies to evaluate their business model before abandoning fair-value accounting. November 13, 2009

  • Where's the Cash? Look Behind You

    A new law gives corporations a chance to apply net operating losses to income generated in good years, going back to 2003. November 11, 2009

  • No More Lenience on Pay Disclosure: SEC

    The regulator pledges to finally get tough on the enforcement of its three-year-old compensation-disclosure rules. November 11, 2009

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