Human Capital: Page 49
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Watch Out for Exec-Pay Tax Deduction Traps
The compensation committee grants your CEO an option to acquire 1 million shares of the company’s publicly traded common stock. The option grant is timely reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Then months later, you learn the grant exceeded the maximum number of s...
By Andrew Liazos • Sept. 17, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending September 14
Tenet Healthcare Corp. has named Daniel Cancelmi as its next finance chief. He has been principal accounting officer since 2007.Richard Rodick has been named CFO and executive vice president – finance of supply-chain services firm UTi Worldwide Inc. Rodick, who replaces Lawrence Samuels, most rec...
By Joan Urdang • Sept. 13, 2012 -
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What Would Your Successor Do?
If you’re tempted to ask your boss, “Am I your guy?” don’t bother. My guess is that you probably already know his answer. After years of focusing on costs, businesses are searching for top-line growth and finding their organizations are not up to the task. For incumbent leaders, the realization...
By Susan Cramm • Sept. 12, 2012 -
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Encouraging Your People to Take the Long View
Measuring the performance of people, especially managers and senior executives, presents a perennial conundrum. Without quantifiable goals, it’s difficult to measure progress objectively. At the same time, companies that rely too much on financial or other “hard” performance targets risk putting ...
By Tony Gibbs and Suzanne Heywood • Sept. 12, 2012 -
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Dreading Obamacare, CFOs Plan for Perils
This is the second article in a two-part series. The first appeared Friday, September 7.Many finance chiefs are rooting hard for a Romney triumph in the Presidential race and for Republicans to win back a majority in the Senate, in hopes of a repeal or dilution of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I...
By David McCann • Sept. 10, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending September 7
Doug Martin has been promoted to the top finance spot at Newell Rubbermaid. Previously, Martin, who replaces Juan Figuereo, was deputy CFO.Professional-services company Marsh & McLennan Cos. has named J. Michael Bischoff as its next finance chief. Bischoff, who has been at the firm since 1982...
By Joan Urdang • Sept. 6, 2012 -
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Hiring, Hesitantly
Business is growing at Niles Bolton Associates, and director of finance Pat Neeley says the Atlanta-based architecture firm has increased its staff by 15% to 20% from last year. Still, like many of her peers, she is far from upbeat. “We’re not really confident that the growth we’ve seen will cont...
By Kate O'Sullivan • Sept. 1, 2012 -
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A November Surprise?
So far, the Department of Labor’s new rule requiring 401(k) plan sponsors to distribute fee-disclosure statements to plan participants hasn’t had much impact, experts say. Sponsors had until August 30 to comply with ERISA section 404(a)(5) by revealing the amount of fees that are being charged to...
By Bonnie Evans • Sept. 1, 2012 -
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Five Best Practices for IT Governance
When human-resources leaders ask my firm to help them replace their current chief information officer with a new one, it’s sometimes because the erstwhile incumbent is moving on to a new job. But more often, we get the call because the current CIO . . . is just not working out. The most common ...
By Martha Heller • Aug. 27, 2012 -
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An 18th Century Solution to Human Capital Reporting Standards
Ever hear of Thomas Bayes? He was a “nonconformist” minister in the 1700s who developed a theory of probability that became a pillar of modern statistics. “Bayes’ Theorem” held, in part, that the value of information is greater when it is more likely to change a decision, when being wrong has lar...
By John Boudreau • Aug. 27, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending August 24
Clean Harbors Inc. has named vice chairman, CFO, and treasurer James Rutledge president and chief operating officer, a newly created position. Rutledge, who will remain vice chairman at the energy, environmental, and industrial-services provider, is being replaced as CFO and treasurer by Robert G...
By Joan Urdang • Aug. 24, 2012 -
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Quick Take: Estée Lauder CFO Tracey Travis
Name: Tracey TravisTitle: CFOCompany: Estée Lauder Cos. [Editor’s note: Travis starts at Estée Lauder today, August 20, having moved over from Ralph Lauren, where she had been CFO since 2005.]What is your best piece of advice for aspiring CFOs?Seek out operational financial support roles to key f...
By Kate O'Sullivan • Aug. 20, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending August 17
Owens Corning has promoted Michael McMurray to the top finance spot. He has been at the company since 2008, and most recently served as vice president and finance leader of its Building Materials Group.Media and marketing research company Arbitron Inc. has named Debra Delman CFO and executive vic...
By Joan Urdang • Aug. 17, 2012 -
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The Scourge of Performance Reviews
I don’t like performance reviews, and I’m not alone. Not that they can’t be done well. It’s just that, owing to human nature, they rarely are.Let me count the ways they fall short: (1) Many people, including otherwise good managers, shy away from difficult discussions. (2) The typical numerical g...
By David McCann • Aug. 16, 2012 -
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New IRS Rule on Business Aircraft Could Cost Companies Big Bucks
The corporate tax impact arising from executives’ personal use of company-owned aircraft, while already bothersome, may get much worse under recently finalized Internal Revenue Service regulations. Proper planning, however, can save companies bundles of cash.Such aircraft usage results in taxable...
By Andrew Liazos and Ruth Wimer • Aug. 15, 2012 -
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To Find Skilled Workers, Go Global
After years of emphasizing worker training and education, emerging markets such as India, China, Brazil, and Eastern Europe now have labor surpluses, and not just of the unskilled whose low wages attracted outsourcing and drove global expansion for a quarter century.Workers in such markets increa...
By Bonnie Evans • Aug. 15, 2012 -
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A Peek Inside a Forensic Fraud Investigation
When Chris Giovino began investigating a U.S. manufacturer, the company knew funds had been embezzled but not how much or who was involved. But during the process, Giovino discovered a systematic fraud, totaling more than $3 million, that was perpetrated by two rather key employees: the chief exe...
By Caroline McDonald • Aug. 13, 2012 -
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Giant Gift for Pension-Plan Sponsors
CFOs rejoice! Congress has given you an early Christmas present, in the form of legislation known as “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century” (MAP-21). The law permits employers that sponsor defined-benefit plans to decrease required contributions and improve plan funding attainment percen...
By Jeff Mamorsky • Aug. 13, 2012 -
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A Cloudy Revolution for HR Tech Arena
“The cloud” may be taking over a key operational area sooner than you thought. Although many companies remain skittish about letting software-as-a-service applications manage sensitive data, SaaS is rising fast in the human-resources area to take on long-dominant, perhaps more robust, but surely ...
By David McCann • Aug. 10, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending August 10
Peter Seymour has been promoted to executive vice president & chief financial officer of Disney/ABC Television Group, a newly created post. Formerly, he was executive vice president of strategy and research at Disney Media Networks, a role he had held since 2008.ON Semiconductor and its finan...
By Joan Urdang • Aug. 10, 2012 -
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Why Education Can Help Drive Investment Risk
Financial analysts typically consider a variety of factors when choosing regions in which to invest, including price stability, political stability, economic financial stability, and infrastructure quality. But a global analysis of talent markets over the next 10 years, and a massive shift in ins...
By John Boudreau • Aug. 7, 2012 -
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CFO Snapshot: Commercial Metals’s Barbara Smith
Name: Barbara Smith Title: CFOCompany: Commercial Metals Co. (CMC)To see a video of Barbara Smith discussing an important, yet underrated, skill for CFOs, click here.When did you know you wanted to be a CFO?I grew up in an entrepreneurial family and was always interested in the dynamics of family...
By Kate O'Sullivan • Aug. 6, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending August 3
The AES Corp. has named Thomas O’Flynn to lead the finance function, effective September 4. He succeeds interim CFO Mary Wood, who will return to her post as controller. Most recently a senior adviser to the private-equity group at Blackstone, O’Flynn is a former CFO of Public Service Enterprise ...
By Joan Urdang • Aug. 3, 2012 -
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No Dire Straits for Boomers
In regard to the worry over baby boomers leaving the workforce, the institutional-knowledge challenge is being solved in many ways, and is creating less turmoil than projected by many business analysts (“When the Boomers Go,” June). Many people age 50 and over are staying on because they need, or...
By CFO Readers • Aug. 1, 2012 -
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Training at Dell: Here, There, and Everywhere
Most Fortune 100 companies have substantial formal programs for educating their top finance talent, and Dell is no exception. But the Round Rock, Texas-based computer giant may have a slight edge, thanks in part to its use of a simple tactic.Almost all companies of Dell’s size are globalized, and...
By David McCann • Aug. 1, 2012
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