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B Prepared
Six years ago, Matthew Weatherley-White became convinced that his company should stake a claim to sustainability. “I saw a real opportunity from a market perspective to plant a flag around an issue that I felt was going to become increasingly important,” recalls Weatherley-White, a managing direc...
By Marielle Segarra • March 25, 2014 -
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Five Ways to Manage Supplier Risks
As companies develop business relationships around the world into more complex supply chains, protecting these essential links from disruption is becoming harder to manage.Thus growing number of organizations are developing enterprise risk management (ERM) frameworks and other holistic risk manag...
By John Bugalla and Kristina Narvaez • Feb. 25, 2014 -
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Google’s Flaws Start to Show
In its third quarter 2013 financial results, Google reported its eighth consecutive decline in price per click, the money it can charge advertisers. But what’s worrisome is that this eight percent year-over-year loss in pricing power for its core business, a symptom of reputational value loss, is...
By Jonathan Salem Baskin and Nir Kossovsky • Jan. 2, 2014 -
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Risk of Water Scarcity Rising
Multinational companies are feeling the burden of tackling water scarcity, in which a lack of water halts product production, exacerbates other risks and causes revenue shortfalls.In a Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) report, “Moving beyond business as usual,” which presents data on the water-rela...
By Alissa Ponchione • Dec. 18, 2013 -
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Game Theory Sparks Terrorism Risk Modeling
Thirteen years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, one thing has become clear about the challenges of modeling and analyzing terrorism risk: at the core of the peril is the intelligence of an adversary who can decide where and when to strike and have counter-moves for ev...
By David Katz • Dec. 2, 2013 -
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CFO Pay Trends by Industry: Wildly Diverse
BDO, the accounting and advisory firm, recently performed an analysis of CFO vs. CEO pay trends at 600 midsize public companies. It shows that total pay for 2012 — salary, annual bonus and long-term incentives — rose 5 percent for finance chiefs and 6 percent for their bosses, compared with the p...
By David McCann • Oct. 29, 2013 -
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Obstacles to Protecting Data Abound
While the digital landscape continues to evolve, information-security controls are constantly being tested. Generally, an individual’s rights to online privacy are protected by some form of legislation in most countries. As a result, organizations that store and manage an individual’s personal in...
By Rob Livingstone • Oct. 24, 2013 -
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The Top 50 Most Reputable Companies
Five years ago, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan deciphered the global market meltdown and credit freeze in a speech at Georgetown University. “In a market system based on trust, reputation has a significant economic value,” he said. Today, those words and the economic decline in 20...
By Jonathan Salem Baskin and Nir Kossovsky • Oct. 16, 2013 -
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Execs Should Fight SEC “Conflict Minerals” Rule
As part of the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress required the Securities and Exchange Commission to adopt rules requiring disclosures from public companies that manufacture, or contract to have manufactured, products that use so-called “conflict minerals.”Those minerals, including columbite-tantalite, cas...
By Brinkley Dickerson • Oct. 3, 2013 -
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Study: Firms that “Cast” Earnings Calls Underperform
Companies that “choreograph” earnings calls by only taking questions from bullish analysts are usually hiding negative information and tend to underperform during future quarters, according to a new working paper by professors at Harvard University and the London School of Economics and Political...
By Alissa Ponchione • Oct. 2, 2013 -
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SEC Goes Ahead with Hated Pay Ratio Rule
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted Wednesday to propose a rule requiring publicly held companies to disclose the ratio of CEO compensation to the median pay of all other employees. The vote was 3-2 along party lines by the Democratic-majority SEC.The commission has delayed the rulemakin...
By Alissa Ponchione • Sept. 18, 2013 -
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Do Board Quotas Cause Bad Accounting?
A truckload of academic research performed in recent years suggests that having women CFOs and board members helps companies achieve some important financial goals. Studies have concluded that the presence of women in one or both of those roles causes statistically significant positive results in...
By David McCann • Aug. 16, 2013 -
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D&O Rates Rise on Flood of Merger Lawsuits
Most finance chiefs working for companies involved in a recent merger or acquisition are well aware of the irritating abundance of legal protests against their deals.Now, however, the omnipresence of so-called “merger objection” lawsuits is hitting companies on another front, helping to drive up ...
By David Katz • July 25, 2013 -
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How to Aggregate Risks Across Your Organization
For many organizations, gathering risk information from many business units and departments and then creating a consolidated risk report to share with senior managements and boards can seem daunting.The sheer volume of risk data to be aggregated can overwhelm even the most astute decision makers....
By Larry Warner and Kristina Narvaez • July 17, 2013 -
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Finance Chiefs Lack Solid Compliance Metrics
Despite being presented with soaring budget requests from compliance executives, CFOs largely have only “lagging indicators” available to gauge the return on investment in corporate regulatory and ethics programs, according to a new report.Over the last three years, the cost of compliance program...
By David Katz • July 8, 2013 -
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Regulatory Risks: Be Very, Very Afraid
Regulatory risks, such as the threat of government pressure to reallocate capital, are the number one threat facing companies in a variety of industries, according to a recent KPMG survey of C-Suite executives.Seventy percent of C-suite executives across all industries said that regulatory change...
By David Katz • May 22, 2013 -
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External Board Service: Chicken or Egg?
Do CFOs who serve on the boards of other companies bring back valuable insights that help their own companies deliver greater value to shareholders? Or are the CFOs of outperforming companies simply more attractive board candidates?Either way, the outperformance is plain to see. Among the 482 pub...
By David McCann • May 8, 2013 -
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Not an Automatic Marriage
There is a lot to accomplish in the run-up to going public, and corporate governance might seem like one of the easier parts of the process. But it is essential, says a new report from PwC. Soon after a company files its initial public offering, it will begin to face scrutiny from shareholders an...
By Marielle Segarra • April 29, 2013 -
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Chase’s Contingency Plan Leaves Lasting Impression
For years, I have covered disasters and have written about contingency planning for catastrophes. To stay open in the aftermath of a disaster, experts have advised organizations to go beyond protecting their physical property.Companies need to make sure their employees are safe and that they also...
By Caroline McDonald • April 2, 2013 -
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Takeovers: Ding Dong Dell
Last month Michael Dell offered to take private the computer firm he founded. It could cost him his job. On March 25th a subcommittee of Dell’s board concluded that two rival bids might prove better than the $13.65 a share that Mr. Dell is offering.The battle could drag on. The new bidders, Carl ...
By Economist Staff • March 29, 2013 -
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Buyers Fear Stiff Workers’ Comp Pricing
In their company’s most recent spate of insurance renewals, many CFOs found workers’ compensation the toughest line of insurance coverage to buy at the right price. To deal with the stiff pricing and underwriting of such coverage, some have been focusing on keeping claims down. But with the marke...
By Caroline McDonald • March 27, 2013 -
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Consequences of Ignoring a Key Risk Indicator
Wall Street was shocked in January 2002 when Ford Motor Co. announced a $1 billion write-off of its stockpile of precious metals, primarily palladium. Why had the number-two carmaker taken such a risk, building up a big inventory of a precious metal that, as it turned out, was not being included ...
By Kristina Narvaez • March 25, 2013 -
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Pension Plans Evolve into Quasi-Insurers
Corporations with defined-benefit pension plans are beginning to recognize that having a pension plan is just like having an insurance subsidiary. Increasingly, corporate boards are realizing that insurance subsidiaries are not core to their business, so they must decide either to run the pension...
By Charles E.F. Millard • March 21, 2013 -
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Will Dodd-Frank Double Tax Captive Insurers?
A subsection of the Dodd-Frank Act, the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA), has become a source of worry for the senior finance and tax executives of companies that self-insure their own risks via domestically domiciled captive insurance companies.The source of anxiety is whether a cap...
By Caroline McDonald • March 11, 2013 -
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Buying Property Insurance in Stormy Times
Companies preparing for annual insurance renewals may be facing higher premiums for property coverage. That’s not a surprise, given the devastating fall storm season in the Northeast. Insured losses stemming from superstorm Sandy, which struck the East Coast on October 29, 2012, are alone likely ...
By Caroline McDonald • March 8, 2013
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