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5 Tips to Get Your Sustainability Story to the Stakeholders Who Matter
Sustainability reports are an important tool in a CFO’s strategic communications arsenal that helps attract employees, customers, and capital.
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Leigh Ann Johnston
| January 30, 2023
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FP&A: Making the Best of the Dog Days of Summer
The calm before the looming annual planning storm offers an opportunity to frame-out high-impact projects to help strengthen the business.
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Marwaan Karame and Kal Vadasz
| July 27, 2022
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Balance Sheets Filled With Goodwill
But goodwill impairments are on the rise, having climbed 23% in 2017.
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Vincent Ryan
| January 2, 2019
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Corporate Finance
Claire’s Stores Joins Retail Bankruptcy Parade
The ear-piercing specialist says its core business is poised for growth but its debt burden is no longer sustainable.
By
Matthew Heller
| March 19, 2018
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Strategy
The Growing Importance of Forecasting
Few CFOs take the time to forecast their balance sheets, preferring to rely on their P&Ls to monitor their cash levels.
By
Chris Howard
| February 8, 2018
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Tax
FASB Seeks Rescue of Stranded Taxes
Under a Financial Accounting Standards Board proposal, companies could reflect the effects of the new 21% rate on their balance sheets.
By
David Katz
| January 24, 2018
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Operating Expenses
FASB Seeks Cut in Lease-Accounting Costs
The board offers an option it thinks will cut paperwork and other expenses linked to its new lease-accounting standard.
By
David Katz
| January 11, 2018
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Profit & Loss
Companies Piling Losses onto Balance Sheets
Freewheeling reporting rules on other comprehensive income set the stage for earnings management, researchers assert.
By
David Katz
| September 25, 2017
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Revenue Recognition
Microsoft Scales Accounting Mountain
Microsoft adopts both the new revenue recognition and lease accounting standards early.
By
David Katz
| August 4, 2017
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Tax
What a Corporate Tax Cut Might Mean to Your Company
How to estimate the effects of a tax cut on your company's deferred taxes.
By
Mark E. Haskins and Paul J. Simko
| July 20, 2017
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Strategy
GulfMark Files Chapter 11 Amid Oil Price Drop
The downturn in oil has caused half of the company's fleet of 66 offshore support vessels to be idled.
By
Matthew Heller
| May 17, 2017
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Corporate Finance
KKR to Invest $150 Million in Pandora
"We have positioned the company to evaluate any potential strategic alternatives, including a sale," a Pandora director says.
By
Matthew Heller
| May 9, 2017
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Financial Reporting
What’s Behind Financial Statement Placement Order?
The order in which a company presents financial statements may present clues about how it wants to be viewed by investors and analysts.
By
David McCann
| March 13, 2017
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Credit
Balance-Sheet Cash Likely to Rise, Not Fall, in 2017
Absent an economic slowdown, strong free cash flow and accessible debt markets will keep companies from having to tap reserves.
By
Vincent Ryan
| January 30, 2017
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Strategy
SunEdison Shares Plunge on Restructuring
Analysts are concerned about the cost of the company's moves to extinguish $580.1 million in convertible debt and $158.3 million in preferred stock.
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
| January 8, 2016
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Risk
Junk-Rated Defaults Seen Continuing at Low Rate
Still, given the fall in energy prices, Moody's expects the speculative-grade default rate to rise to 3.1% in 2016.
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Matthew Heller
| May 4, 2015
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