BEST PRACTICES AWARDS: SO FINE
Presenting the winners of the CFO Asia/PricewaterhouseCoopers Achievements in Best Practices Awards.

Turnaround Management Theirry Moulonguet The finance chief of Nissan placed profitability at the center of decision-making.

Managing External Stakeholders Rajendra Kasliwal Hindalco's CFO raised his communications with investors to an almost frenetic level.

Managing Finance in an SME Babu Shankar The CFO of Fosroc Chemicals tackled multiple jobs when he found its cash position in peril.

Raising Capital Chris Matten OCBC's finance chief cooked up the biggest international debt raising by a Singapore issuer.

Risk Management James Irvine BAT Malaysia's CFO incorporated the management of risk into the day-to-day fabric of his company.

Turnaround Management: Special Commendation Peter Leong Comfort's finance director helped the company make the best of what it had.

Raising Capital: Special Commendation Delfin Gonzalez The CFO of Globe Telecom tapped various sources while balancing capital structure.

RAISING STAKES
Joining the WTO will permanently change China's economic landscape as foreigners rush to boost investment in the mainland.

Give Them Hope: Tying performance to pay and corporate goals to employee goals helped turn a rag-tag collection of state-owned enterprises into a profit machine that is now China's largest independent auto parts maker.

The Foreign Invasion: We survey finance executives around the world and learn that interest in China continues to soar despite fears that China might not meet all of its WTO commitments.

Cash control: A lot of the uncertainty in cash management is now starting to disappear, thanks to the introduction of a national interbank clearing system.

THE PERFECT PROFIT
Companies across all industries are taking a broader look at the factors that influence profits. Profit-optimization tools can help, for example, by working demand-related data into pricing or updating prices frequently based on market conditions. Though few have yet to adopt profit optimization, it can add as much as 6 percent to the bottom line within a year.

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