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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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Staffing
Unfilled Job Openings Are Stinging Small Businesses
More than 60% of small business owners are finding few or no qualified applicants for job openings, according to the NFIB.
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Vincent Ryan
| October 18, 2021
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Corporate Finance
CFOs Being Cautious With Balance-Sheet Cash
Many finance execs plan to maintain their higher cash balances until at least September, finds the AFP.
By
Vincent Ryan
| June 28, 2021
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Strategy
The Balanced Scorecard Approach to Capital Investment
The key to effective capital allocation is using an objective framework to drive the analysis, prioritization, and execution.
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Vincent Ryan
| March 22, 2021
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Credit & Capital
S&P Cuts Oracle Rating on Stock Buyback Worries
With Oracle's buybacks exceeding free operating cash-flow generation, S&P is concerned the company will be overleveraged.
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Matthew Heller
| July 3, 2019
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The Economy
Could This Be the Recession That Wasn’t?
Even as key corporate financial indicators continue to fall, some hope may be emerging that forecasts of an impending recession will prove inaccurate.
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David McCann
| March 1, 2019
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Human Capital & Careers
Don’t Base Exec Bonuses on Subjective Criteria
While a quarter of S&P 500 companies base CEO bonuses partly on qualitative factors, research shows that's not a good idea.
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Ahmet Kurt
| January 18, 2019
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Risk Management
Pie in the Face for New Papa John’s CFO
The incoming finance chief has an "impossible" problem in funding needed capex on top of a huge share buyback and dividend hike, analyst firm says.
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David McCann
| May 14, 2018
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Risk & Compliance
To Make More Money, CEOs Harm Company Value
Quarters when CEO equity awards vest coincide with corporate actions that pump up stock prices briefly while damaging the company's long-term value.
By
David McCann
| January 9, 2018
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Strategy
Capital Gets a Reset
Among a number of capital-raising experiments, some companies are seeking investors for specific projects.
By
Andrew Schwedel, James Root, and James Allen
| October 2, 2017
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Risk
New Equipment Lending Drops 10%
“Sluggish activity to begin the second quarter seems to have continued the relatively soft Q1," said ELFA's chief executive.
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Matthew Heller
| May 24, 2016
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Equipment Financing
Equipment Financing Credit Quality Slips
Origination volume in February was nearly flat, and receivables over 30 days and charge-offs 'inched upward,' says ELFA.
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
| March 23, 2016
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Risk
High-Yield Firms’ Cash Falls 9% to $281B
Speculative-grade companies spent an amount equal to four times their discretionary cash flow on dividends and buybacks in 2014, says Moody's.
By
Matthew Heller
| June 16, 2015
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Risk Management
CFOs Long for Growth But Hesitate to Invest
Finance chiefs are focused on growth, but they're holding back on making the moves that actually drive sustained expansion, according to Ernst & Young.
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Marielle Segarra
| January 23, 2014
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The Economy
New Outlook for the New Year?
CFOs are more optimistic than last quarter and plan to do some hiring in the year ahead, according to the latest Duke/&splt;i>CFO&splt;/i> Global Business Outlook Survey.
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Kate O'Sullivan
| December 15, 2011
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Management Accounting
Capex, Inventory Spend Squeeze Cash: Study
Companies are starting, in the smallest of ways, to increase their outlays on inventory and plant and equipment.
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David Katz
| July 27, 2011
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