October 2005

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Organic Growth: Profiting From The Union of Finance and Marketing
The CFO’s role in M&A is well established, but acquisitions often destroy shareholder value for the acquirer. To boost internal growth, savvy finance executives are partnering with marketing colleagues to drive more consistently profitable results.


management:
Planning Is Key to Smooth Process


productivity:
Improving People Performance: The CFO’s New Frontier


international:
The True Costs of Sourcing from China


regulation:
Is Relief Coming for Smaller Public Companies


compliance:
Applying Continuous Controls Monitoring for Achieving Compliance and Business Improvement


cash management:
Do’s and Don’t’s for Good Cash Management


governance:
Is It Time for More Deregulation at the SEC?


Dealing with Difficult People
There's no escaping the fact that difficult people come into everyone's life. Sometimes they come in the form of an unhappy or hard-to-get-along-with client, customer or co-worker.

New Technology Approach Promises Better Response to 'Events'
A technology expert details a new concept in systems architecture - "complex event processing." The technique has considerable potential for mitigating risk and improving compliance and fraud detection.
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