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COVER STORY
TO INFINITY AND BEYOND
China is developing a local private-equity industry partly at the expense of foreign investment firms. But one Israeli fund has discovered an unlikely path to success.
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FEATURE
UNTANGLING THE KNOT
MNCs in Asia are now attempting what their U.S. and European peers have long struggled with: making finance efficient and helpful.
 
FEATURE
AUDITOR ANGST
Want faster, cheaper audits? Auditors suggest that you avoid last-minute data dumps and other less-than-helpful practices.
 
TOPLINE

COMING TOGETHER
Ernst & Young merges its individual country operations.

NO FLEX, PLEASE, WE’RE SKITTISH
Doubting the benefits of flexible work arrangements.

GENERAL LEDGER VS. MAJOR OPPORTUNITY
Finance and IT stage a business intelligence coup.

SHOW ME THE GREEN
Companies air their eco-intentions.

TO ERR IS HUMAN, AND COMMON
Too many accounting mistakes.

ROOMS TO GROW
Rising hotel costs.

AN ABERRANT ABACUS
Gauging the reliability of China’s dodgy economic statistics.

 
IN TECH
EFFORT OF DUPLICATION
“Managed print services” may help companies rein in an insidious expense.
 
INSIGHT

HALF FULL AND THEN SOME
New research suggests that CFOs, like CEOs, can be confident to a fault.

 
BY THE NUMBERS

SHARING THE DOWNSIDE
Why CFOs, on the whole, should buy more of their companies’ stock.

 
ON THE RECORD
S. RAMAKRISHNAN, CFO, TATA POWER
 
IN PRACTICE: ERP
IT’S ALIVE
Pronounced dead eight years ago, enterprise resource planning is finding a lively, new place in CFOs’ hearts.
 
IN PRACTICE: CSR
BEIJING BROAD JUMP
The Olympics controversy highlights a delicate corporate social responsibility issue for multinationals.
 
GRAPEVINE
MAKING THE PIECES FIT
Confronting a cultural mismatch; CFOs on the move.
 


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