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    A CFO Gets Ready for Takeoff

    Virgin Galactic, the space-tourism company scheduled to start sending commercial flights 62 miles above Earth next year, has completed its CFO search by hiring Ken Sunshine, a veteran aerospace-industry finance executive.Sunshine has been CFO of the National Institute of Aerospace, Aurora Flight ...

    By • Aug. 9, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending August 5

    Landscape-maintenance equipment provider The Toro Co. has named Renee Peterson CFO and vice president, finance, effective August 22. She takes over from Stephen Wolfe, who is retiring. Previously, Peterson was vice president, finance and planning, for the automotive and truck divisions of Eaton C...

    By Joan Urdang • Aug. 4, 2011
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    Do Finance Practices Hinder Optimal Hiring?

    Consider how your organization would react to the following situation: You are recovering from the economic downturn, and your strategic forecasts suggest growing demand for your products and services in the long run, but cost control remains important.Your strategic planning includes both financ...

    By John Boudreau • Aug. 2, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 29

    Financial-services firm Comerica Inc. has named Karen Parkhill as a vice chairman; she will also become finance chief after the company files its 10-Q for the third quarter. As CFO she will replace Elizabeth Acton, who plans to retire in April. Previously, Parkhill was CFO of the commercial banki...

    By Joan Urdang • July 29, 2011
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    Farewell to Brand-Name Drugs

    Companies on the leading edge of effective health-care cost management are paring down prescription-drug outlays by ceasing coverage for brand-name drugs when there are legitimate over-the-counter substitutes.For drug categories as diverse as antacids, antidepressants, hypnotics, and cholesterol ...

    By • July 28, 2011
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    Is Your Change-in-Control Protection Safe?

    Tax gross-ups provided to public-company executives under “golden-parachute” deals payable upon a change in control have recently come under heavy attack. Some large investors have submitted shareholder resolutions to ban this type of gross-up, and Institutional Shareholder Services considers it ...

    By Andrew Liazos • July 25, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 22

    Head of finance John Shroyer will leave Alliant Techsystems Inc. after it reports its first-quarter earnings on August 4. Effective August 8, controller Tom Sexton will serve as interim CFO at the defense, aerospace, and commercial-products firm until a permanent successor to Shroyer is found.Bus...

    By CFO Readers and Joan Urdang • July 22, 2011
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    Play Time or Pay Day?

    Now that most companies have implemented the initial effective provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it may soon be time to start thinking about a key element of the health-care reform law that’s not slated to take effect until 2014.That year, under a provision known collo...

    By • July 21, 2011
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    Play Time or Pay Day?

    Now that most companies have implemented the initial effective provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it may soon be time to start thinking about a key element of the health-care reform law that’s not slated to take effect until 2014.That year, under a provision known collo...

    By • July 21, 2011
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    Mandate Mayhem

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”) — known as health-care reform or ObamaCare by many proponents and opponents, respectively — is being challenged in the courts. A major issue concerns the constitutionality of the federal mandate that all individuals maintain adequate heal...

    By Jeff Mamorsky • July 19, 2011
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    Mandate Mayhem

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”) — known as health-care reform or ObamaCare by many proponents and opponents, respectively — is being challenged in the courts. A major issue concerns the constitutionality of the federal mandate that all individuals maintain adequate heal...

    By Jeff Mamorsky • July 19, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 15

    Biotechnology firm Avila Therapeutics Inc. has appointed Andrew Hirsch to be its first finance chief. He comes to the company from Biogen Idec, where he was vice president of corporate strategy and M&A.Darian Hong has been tapped for the top finance spot at software-as-a-service provider Lead...

    By Joan Urdang • July 15, 2011
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    Taking the Next Step

     When it comes to gender diversity in finance, there is no other way to put it: women’s progress toward the top echelons has stalled. Although women make up 56% of undergraduate accounting majors and 36% of all MBAs, they fill just 9% of CFO roles at large companies, a percentage that has remaine...

    By Marielle Segarra • July 15, 2011
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    Think (Again)

    On a drizzly day in late May, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge welcomes a visitor to the company’s Armonk, New York, headquarters by offering him a printed PowerPoint deck. Nothing new in that — executives of all stripes, and particularly in finance, like to work from a script.What is different, however, ...

    By Scott Leibs • July 15, 2011
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    Compensation Confrontation

    Down in the weeds of executive compensation, things can be pretty hard to fathom. Not just for ignorant folk, but for experts, too. “Even for people like me who are in it every day, it’s still hard to understand sometimes,” confesses Aaron Boyd, head of research for Equilar, a compensation-resear...

    By • July 15, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 15

    Biotechnology firm Avila Therapeutics Inc. has appointed Andrew Hirsch to be its first finance chief. He comes to the company from Biogen Idec, where he was vice president of corporate strategy and M&A.Darian Hong has been tapped for the top finance spot at software-as-a-service provider Lead...

    By Joan Urdang • July 15, 2011
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    Taking the Next Step

    When it comes to gender diversity in finance, there is no other way to put it: women’s progress toward the top echelons has stalled. Although women make up 56% of undergraduate accounting majors and 36% of all MBAs, they fill just 9% of CFO roles at large companies, a percentage that has remained...

    By Marielle Segarra • July 15, 2011
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    “You Take Risks and You Own Them.”

    For the right kind of finance executive, the lure of a CFO post at a private-equity portfolio company is easy to see: a potential equity stake that could mushroom in value upon a successful exit, an opportunity to make a big impact, and, for some, the chance to escape the glaring spotlight at a p...

    By • July 15, 2011
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    A Word from Your Sponsor?

    Since 1995, we have been tracking women’s progress toward the top CFO posts in the country. In many respects that progress has been the reverse of the quip about how a man goes broke (slowly, then all at once). Women made remarkable progress between 1995 and 2005, as the ranks of female CFOs at F...

    By Scott Leibs • July 15, 2011
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    Spies Like You?

    The days when a company could simply un-friend social media — hiding it behind a firewall so employees couldn’t access it — are disappearing faster than yesterday’s “Trending Now” topics on Twitter.With an estimated 70% of social-media use coming from mobile devices like smartphones, and new onli...

    By Josh Hyatt • July 15, 2011
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    “Yeah, I Worked for Lehman, But …“

    How do you find a new, high-level finance job if your previous employer is an albatross around your neck? What about if you’re on the hiring side, looking to fill a key staff position — should you err on the side of caution and not consider a person from an albatross company? The somewhat contrad...

    By • July 13, 2011
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    “Yeah, I Worked for Lehman, But …”

    How do you find a new, high-level finance job if your previous employer is an albatross around your neck? What about if you’re on the hiring side, looking to fill a key staff position — should you err on the side of caution and not consider a person from an albatross company? The somewhat contrad...

    By • July 13, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 8

    Hyperdynamics Corp. has named Paul Reinbolt to head finance, effective August 8. He is retiring from Marathon Oil Corp., where he has worked since 1980, most recently as vice president-finance and treasurer.Joel Wine has been named CFO and treasurer of Alexander & Baldwin Inc., effective Sept...

    By Joan Urdang • July 8, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 8

    Hyperdynamics Corp. has named Paul Reinbolt to head finance, effective August 8. He is retiring from Marathon Oil Corp., where he has worked since 1980, most recently as vice president-finance and treasurer.Joel Wine has been named CFO and treasurer of Alexander & Baldwin Inc., effective Sept...

    By Joan Urdang • July 8, 2011
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    How to Mentor Your Boss, the CEO

    At a recent Institute of Management Accountants conference, Rich Beyer, chairman and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, gave a presentation titled, “Financial Executives as True Business Partners.” The topic is not new to CFOs. But what made the presentation beyond the norm was its focus on the rela...

    By Bud Kulesza • July 7, 2011