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    <description>The latest finance news, including accounting practices, government investigations, capital-raisings, credit ratings, investor relations, and personnel shuffles.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:32:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Finance Chiefs Look Warily Ahead</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14482744/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>A new survey of finance executives finds them preparing for a slow recovery.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Instead of Best Practice, Next Practice</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14482360/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>A strategy expert encourages finance chiefs to cut back on benchmarking and focus on the future.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>All the Right Data</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14473223/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>The author of a new book on business analytics tells how some companies are discovering unusual sources of valuable information.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:46:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Today KPIs, Tomorrow Benchmarks?</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14468507/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>A new software offering has the potential to automate finance benchmarking.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Benchmarking Credit Risk: Cash Is the Key</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14461460/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>Compared with the same period last year, fewer midcap companies were slow to pay their bills in the third quarter of 2009.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Stiglitz: GDP Blinded Us to the Crisis</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14443847/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz explains why our reliance on the GDP metric masked the economy's ill health before the credit crisis hit.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Curbing Fleet Costs</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14441841/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>Fewer cylinders, more GPS, backup leases, and better benchmarking are just some of the ways fleet managers are outpacing rising costs.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>American Airlines Quenches Thirst for Liquidity Fuel</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14440730/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>Thomas Horton, CFO of American Airlines's parent company, laments the state of his highly leveraged industry.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cash Flow: a Better Way to Know Your Bank?</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/13981499/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>A study of commercial banks comes up with ways accounting for operating cash flow could be improved.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Consumer Spending, Economic Changes Shape Midcaps</title>
      <link>http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/13848016/?f=rsspage</link>
      <description>Change was a good thing for the first-quarter results of midmarket health-care and Internet companies, but other sectors more dependent on consumer spending took a hit.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
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