THE MAGAZINE FOR FINANCIAL DIRECTORS AND TREASURERS
FEBRUARY 2006 ISSUE Home | Free email newsletter | Site map | Contact us 
 

COVER STORY
MARGIN SHOCK
Volatile – and high – oil prices are here to stay. Asia’s CFOs must learn how to manage the problem.
read the entire story
 
FEATURE
FUTURE OFFICE
How emerging technologies will radically change tomorrow’s companies, and what finance executives can do about it today.
 
FEATURE
REMOTE CONTROL TREASURY?
Making sense of the joys and perils of centralizing cash management.
 
TOPLINE

UNDERSTANDING CHINA
IFRS comes to China

THE MOTLEY COUP
Another coup in the Philippines

COUPLING AGAIN
Strategic alliances versus M&A

CUSHIONING THE BLOW
Why auditors matter

IPO UPDATE
IPOs scorecard

 
BY THE NUMBERS
PROGRESS, OF A SORT
Some positive trends in China’s banking sector, but serious problems remain.
 
DEALS
AMERICA FOR SALE
Foreigners are buying US assets at the fastest clip in five years, and the politicians are getting restive.
 
IN TECH
THEY CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE
How third-party negotiators can help companies buy software at the best prices.
 
ON THE RECORD
LONELY PLANET’S CAROLYN SUTTON
 
IN PRACTICE: CORRUPTION
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT
American companies in China rethink the way they do things as the US gets serious with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
 
IN PRACTICE: COMPENSATION
WHEN MONEY ISN’T ENOUGH
One surprise from CFO China’s latest salaries survey: richly rewarded finance executives in foreign enterprises are not happy.
 
IN PRACTICE: FUNDRAISING
MEET YOUR NEW BANKERS
Should you raise money from cash-rich hedge funds?
 
GRAPEVINE
TWO YEARS AND A LOT OF MONEY
Day of reckoning for the CFO of Singapore-listed China Aviation Oil; CFOs on the move
 

Click to Visit