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PERFORMANCE
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STILL PROCESSING
CFOs in Asia still spend too much time on transaction processing and too little on analysis. When will this change? (February 2008) |
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HOW LOW CAN THEY GO?
Getting the most from online reverse auctions. (November 2007) |
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HERE COME THE ACTIVISTS
Asia and the global liquidity crunch. (October 2007) |
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WILL OUTSOURCING FLY?
As companies in Asia outsource finance and accounting, CFOs ask whether the gains are worth the effort. (Jul/Aug 2007) |
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GROWING PROBLEMS
Our 2007 working capital survey of US companies has implications for Asia’s own enterprises. (Jul/Aug 2007) |
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MEASURING UP
Companies are beginning to extend metrics into areas that seem to defy measurement. (June 2007) |
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GOING AWAY
US and European CFOs are finally embracing finance outsourcing. The first in a two-part series. (June 2007) |
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MORE THAN NUMBERS
Investors want more than vetted financials (May 2007) |
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NERVE-CENTER FUSION
In Asia, architecture and technology are finally talking to each other. (April 2007) |
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SIX STIGMA?
Does Six Sigma really work? (April 2007) |
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WHAT MONEY CAN’T BUY
R&D pays off – to a certain point (Dec 2006/ Jan 2007) |
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CAN ANYONE SEE SEA BISCUIT?
Property downgrades in Hong Kong (Dec 2006/ Jan 2007) |
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A PRODUCTIVE DEBATE
The links between productivity and pay are diverging. (Dec 2006/ Jan 2007) |
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HOW DO YOU MANAGE?
About one-third of CFOs worldwide use ‘allowable discretion’ to influence their reported numbers. (November 2006) |
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THINKING INSIDE THE BOXES
How America’s war on terror is affecting global supply chains. (September 2006) |
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FLIRTING WITH DISASTER RECOVERY
Is a business continuity plan part of internal control under Sarbanes-Oxley? (June 2006) |
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FORTUNE’S FORMULA
How to strike a balance between spending on innovation and financial controls on investment. (May 2006) |
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AS THE CYCLE TURNS
Several new books cast a fresh eye on the art of forecasting business cycles. (May 2006) |
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MARGIN SHOCK
Volatile – and high – oil prices are here to stay. Asia’s CFOs must learn how to manage the problem. (Mar 2006) |
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WHO’S GOT THE EDGE?
A new look at measuring shareholder value shows which management teams in Asia are truly delivering excess returns. (Oct 2005) |
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THE BOTTOM
LINE, PLEASE
Hong Kong banks are the top performers
for total shareholder return, a survey finds. (Jun
2005) |
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START
WITH DEMAND
How to make more
money by matching production with actual orders, not historical
trends. (May 2005) |
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GO WITH
THE FLOW
Despite
periods of intense growth, top Asian performers are improving
their working capital management. But the gains are somewhat
offset by growing inventories and shrinking days payables outstanding.
(Mar 2005) |
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ROCE SURVEY:
MAKING MONEY SWEAT
How efficient
is your capital? We calculate the average return on capital
employed (ROCE) for 321 companies across Asia Pacific, ranking
the best. (Jun 2004) |
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WORKING
CAPITAL SURVEY: LOST IN THE MACHINE
Our
fourth annual ranking of working capital management in the region
reveals a sharp fall-off in performance with a few isolated
areas of best practice emerging as gems. (Mar
2004) |
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WORKING
CAPITAL SURVEY: WHEEL OF FORTUNE
Asia's
biggest companies are missing out on the opportunity to access
almost US$40 billion because of poor management of their working
capital. CFO Asia's third annual review of working capital practices
highlights the winners and losers in the opportunity stakes,
and looks at the companies - and industry sectors - that are
getting it right. (Apr 2003) |
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BEST ANNUAL
REPORTS: TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Our
second ranking finds notable improvements in financial reporting
from a few of Asia's major public companies, but concludes that
the rest have a long way to go. (Mar
2003) |
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PERFORMANCE
100: PLAYING FOR KEEPS
The
Performance 100 is a list of companies that have both created,
and destroyed, wealth on an epic scale. This year's top-ranking
company Samsung Electronics has more than doubled the money
invested in it. Unfortunately this is not true of more than
a third of the companies on the P100 list. (Nov
2002) |
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BEST PRACTICES
AWARDS: SO FINE
Presenting
the winners of the CFO Asia/PricewaterhouseCoopers Achievements
in Best Practices Awards. (Mar
2002) |
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WORKING
CAPITAL SURVEY: DON’T BE SO NEGATIVE
Flexibility
has become the watchword of the day for Asian companies that
are trying to balance business during a downturn with managing
their working capital. We rank 830 public companies across Asia
on their cash conversion efficiency and days working capital.
(February 2002) |
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PERFORMANCE
100
The P100 list offers three
hard-and-fast tools to pry open a window on an Asian company's
ability to deliver wealth to shareholders. (Oct
2001) |
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VALUE METRICS
Between 40 and 50 percent of all companies
trying value-based metrics abandon them between the third and
fifth year of implementation. (Jun
2001) |
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TOP OF THE
FORM
Announcing the winners
of the first CFO Asia Achievements in Best Practices Awards.
(Mar 2001) |
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ON BALANCE
The balanced scorecard is evolving
from a measurement system into a means for managing change.
The founders of the balanced scorecard discuss its impact.
(Mar 2001) |
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FINANCE
MASTERS
We profile two winners
of CFO's 2000 Excellence Awards in the US.
(Dec/ Jan 2001) |
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THE TRANSPARENCY
GANG
Producing a winning annual
report is becoming more and more important to CFOs in Asia.
Here are the companies that do it best. (Nov
2000) |
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THE WINNERS
CIRCLE
The CFOs of Cisco and
Alcoa are among the winners of CFO's 2000 Excellence
Awards in the US. Here's why. (Nov
2000) |
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GETTING
GOOD VALUE
CFO Asia
and Stern Stewart's second annual ranking of Asia's top value
creators finds CFOs of cash-rich companies are having a tough
time putting their money to work. (Oct
2000) |
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VALUING
VIRTUE
More and more investors
believe corporate governance is central to financial performance.
But can the link be measured? (Oct
2000) |
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PERFORMANCE
100
CFO Asia's first
ranking of the region's top wealth creators shows that managing
for shareholder value is starting to gain ground among CFOs
around the region. (Nov 1999) |
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WHAT YOUR
CEO WANTS FROM YOU
According
to a new survey, CEOs say finance managers in Asia don't measure
up. (Jun 1999) |
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ATOM AND EVA
Implementing EVA may not be rocket
science, but doing it yourself can be tricky. (May
1999) |
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SEEING IS
BELIEVING
A better approach
to estimating market capital. (May
1999) |
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THE HUMAN
FACTOR
More CFOs in Asia are
turning to non-financial metrics to help gauge - and boost -
corporate performance in a wide variety of industries.
(Feb 1999) |
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