New accounting standards, greater M&A activity, and PCAOB documentation requests drove up fees, according to the Financial Executives Research Foundation.
Perhaps counterintuitively, finance executives say they don't plan to cut head-count costs in response to technology-driven efficiencies.
Here's some practical advice for companies that did an IPO under the JOBS Act and now must transition to full-public-company status.
Sixty percent of financial professionals say overpaying for deals is the biggest M&A risk factor facing buyers next year, according to new research.
Audit fees increased by a median of 3.2% in 2015, but the largest filers are keeping a lid on costs by improving internal controls.
But the rate of salary increase in 2015 dipped slightly from the prior year, research finds.
For second place on the priority list, finance chiefs chose a perennial, budgeting. Periodic forecasting came in third.
Finance chiefs’ pay is increasingly aligned with corporate performance, as our report on trends in CFO compensation reveals.
When the equity market turned around and share prices started moving higher in 2009, using stock price as a key determinant in assessing goodwill impairment became less common.
The CFO-CIO relationship is becoming increasingly bumpy. Executives who have worked in both finance and technology offer advice on smoothing things out.
CFO compensation made headway last year, but the sailing may not be so smooth in 2011.
