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	Survey: CFOs Remain Pessimistic About U.S. Economy
		CFOs are particularly concerned about consumer demand, rising labor costs, high health care costs and a shortage of skilled labor.
		The survey of European CFOs was conducted jointly with RSM Erasmus University in the Netherlands.
		Forty-seven percent of European CFOs are more optimistic about their own countries’ economies relative to last quarter, and 59 percent are more optimistic about the outlook for their own firms.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2006/11/cfo_survey.html (1377 words)

	CFOs conservatively hopeful about '05 economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		When chief financial officers (CFOs) were asked their opinion on the health of the economy for 2005, they ranked their level of optimism a six on a scale of one to 10.
		CFOs were asked, "On a scale of one to 10, with 10 being 'very optimistic' and one being 'very pessimistic,' how do you feel about the health of the economy for 2005?" The mean response was six.
		CFOs at small companies are more optimistic than their counterparts at large corporations, survey results show.
	www.thefabricator.com /News/Breaking_News_04.cfm?NewsID=562 (224 words)

	Print Version - CFOs Agree Supply Chain is Crucial, Yet Strategy and Operations Not Linked \| Business intelligence, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		CFOs are dissatisfied with traditional decentralized management of the supply chain, with 36 percent citing processes not being managed in a single location as problematic and 34 percent saying the lines of authority are unclear.
		Only 17 percent of CFOs say they are "very" or "completely" satisfied with their ability to measure total supply chain costs, despite the fact that monitoring inventory levels is the single-most popular metric used to assess supply chain performance.
		CFOs report numerous obstacles standing in the way of supply chain changes, with 58 percent citing resistance from operations or other functions as a main reason and 40 percent citing a lack of internal leadership.
	www.dmreview.com /editorial/dmreview/print_action.cfm?articleId=7244 (550 words)

	Far-sighted CFOs Wanted - February/March 2003
		CFOs are destined to hold more pieces of the corporate puzzle than ever before—each of them subject to more blame, risk and reward.
		The CFO is increasingly called upon to proactively devise ways to stimulate growth, and to solve problems by using the numbers to understand the business’s underpinnings.
		The CFO will need to be a good communicator and a good listener, intimately engaged, and unmarred by technicalities.
	www.insight-mag.com /insight/03/02-03/feat-2-pt-1-FarSighted.asp (1223 words)

	USATODAY.com - More finance chiefs are dropping out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		CFOs at more than 200 companies were fired or replaced between Dec. 1, 2004, and Jan. 31, 2005, according to 10-K Wizard's analysis of thousands of Securities and Exchange Commission filings for USA TODAY.
		As a CFO for software maker Moldflow, her brain was stuffed full of financial ratios.
		CFOs must document the movement of every material amount of money, down to the petty-cash account used in the mailroom, says Julia Homer, editor in chief of CFO magazine.
	www.usatoday.com /money/companies/management/2005-03-23-cfo-usat_x.htm (1787 words)

	Healthcare Financial Management: Wanted: CFOs with skills beyond finance - chief financial officers
		Consolidation of administrative positions often results in one CFO being asked to assume the duties previously performed by his or her counterparts at the other institutions.
		CFOs adept at cost containment do well in job searches because more organizations are attempting to be low-cost providers and need CFOs experienced in cost containment to accomplish this goal, Doody says.
		CFOs who have mastered the financial applications part of their jobs enjoy greater employment opportunities than their CFO colleagues who have had little involvement in the world of information systems.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3257/is_n10_v49/ai_17439578 (999 words)

	Revenge of the Bean Counters - At last, CFOs are turning on the CEOs who abused them. By Daniel Gross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		To be a CFO is to suffer from a permanent inferiority complex.
		CFOs, responsible for areas such as pension accounting, the creation and maintenance of items like "goodwill" that could be used to juice earnings, were the go-to guys.
		CFOs, like the rest of us, are probably rooting for Skilling and Ebbers to go to prison for a long time and for their CFOs to get off easier.
	slate.msn.com /id/2096661 (880 words)

	Hospital CFOs Predict Double-Digit Increase In Capital Spending
		CFOs expect to increase capital spending by an average of 14 percent per year, with spending in certain regions of the U.S. rising more than others.
		Driving this increased spending are three primary, often competing issues CFOs face in operating their companies: staying ahead of deteriorating fixed assets (plant, property and medical equipment), a need to upgrade technology, and increasing capacity.
		CFOs also cited plant and facilities as an important area for future spending and offered two key views on the state of their infrastructures.
	www.hfma.org /about/press_release/March_2_2004.htm (1267 words)

	RisMedia.com - CFOs Bullish on 2005 Economy, According to Bank of America Survey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Eight out of ten CFOs also cited cost of material, supplies and equipment (82%) as their top financial concern, followed by energy costs including gas and oil (72%) and the U.S. economy (71%).
		CFOs likely expect continued interest rate increases, with 62% anticipating their cost of capital to rise compared with 41% last year.
		While 58% of CFOs expect the U.S. economy to outperform the world economy next year, there were a number of indications that manufacturing is clearly growing as a global business.
	www.rismedia.com /index.php/article/articleprint/8570/-1/1 (457 words)

	CFOs Bullish on 2005 Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Eighty-two percent of CFOs also cited cost of material, supplies and equipment as their top financial concern, followed by energy costs including gas and oil (72 percent) and the U.S. economy (71 percent).
		CFOs likely expect continued interest rate increases, with 62 percent anticipating their cost of capital to rise compared with 41 percent last year.
		While 58 percent of CFOs expect the U.S. economy to outperform the world economy next year, there were a number of indications that manufacturing is clearly growing as a global business.
	www.accountingnet.com /x46147.xml (454 words)

	Business: Scandals put CFOs under microscope
		CFOs are facing heightened scrutiny from almost every corner, bombarded by tough questions from investors, employees, analysts and regulators.
		CFOs "are feeling a little bombarded, frankly," said Phil Livingston, president of Financial Executives International, a trade association for top financial executives, including CFOs.
		Outplacement expert Challenger said 106 CFOs lost or left their jobs at large public companies in the second quarter of 2002, up 18 percent from the 90 who changed jobs in the first three months of the year.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/08/17/Business/Scandals_put_CFOs_und.shtml (870 words)

	CNN.com - Technology - CFOs find their roles changing - March 19, 2001
		According to MacDuff, the need to get information out to the entire company quickly is giving executives a chance to "act like more of a team than separate people and functions." A CFO should be aware of the business' strategy as well as the company's financial and technological health, she says.
		CFOs are also more directly involved with investor communities and boards of directors than in the past, says Jones.
		The right financial reporting technology helps CFOs make sure that they're making the best changes for the best results: If there's a downturn, they might change to a truck-shipping company from their usual air shipping, or they might move a manufacturing location rather than automatically cutting travel expenses, says Jones.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/TECH/industry/03/19/cfo.roles.changing.idg (1001 words)

	CFOs Race to Keep Up With New Technology - Computerworld
		Now, CFOs - whose focus is often on the bottom-line results of specific markets but not the technological arcana that affect them - need to understand new tools that can give them a clearer picture of their companies' financial health, according to Ian Rubin, an analyst at IDC in Framingham, Mass.
		Dramatic growth, fueled by the Web, has also forced Lynn Atchison, CFO at business information provider Hoovers Inc. in Austin, Texas, to be more flexible in her job.
		At a minimum, she said, today's CFOs need to understand the vocabulary of the Internet and how to use new technologies to launch a marketplace.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2001/0,4814,57983,00.html (681 words)

	What CFOs Really Think about IT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The study finds that CFOs are moving from being scorekeepers of IT spending to proactive leaders for strategic growth.
		As a result, CFOs are looking at IT expenditures as investments, with 86 percent using at least one financial metric to guide their decisions about the allocation of funds.
		CFOs are determined to invest shareholder capital in IT projects that promise a strategic and a financial return over the long term.
	www.dmreview.com /article_sub.cfm?articleId=4775 (722 words)

	Line56.com: CFOs Predict Growth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Over a third of CFOs said that senior management were withholding their "participation, enforcement and[/or] endorsement" of financial policies.
		Additionally, maverick spending is an issue for nearly 70 percent of CFOs while rules for limiting spending per transaction were highly complied with only 40 percent of the time.
		As a result, half of the CFOs said that "identifying and controlling unauthorized spending" was a high priority in 2005.
	www.line56.com /articles?ArticleID=6420 (226 words)

	Line56.com: CFOs and the Supply Chain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		While this is a clear majority, there's still room to convince CFOs to roll up their SCM sleeves, and perhaps even to convince companies to put CFOs in charge of the supply chain (as Home Depot, Delta, and Sun have already done).
		CFOs themselves anticipate the growing relevance of SCM to organizational success.
		The big question, then, is how CFOs (and, for that matter, other executives) can improve supply chain processes within their companies incrementally, as that seems the main possibility right now.
	www.line56.com /articles?ArticleID=4932 (486 words)

	Troubles add up for CFOs - 04/10/05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		More recently, Delphi Corp. CFO Alan Dawes, who had been widely respected by Wall Street analysts, agreed last month to resign from the Troy-based auto supplier after an independent audit committee said it lost confidence in him.
		As a CFO for software maker Moldflow, her brain was stuffed with financial ratios.
		Gone are the days, MacCormack said, when CFOs could do what attracted them to the profession in the first place: pore over numbers and help division managers prudently grow their businesses.
	www.detnews.com /2005/business/0504/10/B01-145119.htm (629 words)

	MIT SMR Article, "How CFOs Really Practice Finance" - Winter 2001 Reprint 4221
		Graham and Harvey found that although the financial theories and tools of academia are slowly being adopted into the field, CFOs are reluctant to forsake their favorite "yardsticks" in favor of textbook approaches to solving problems.
		However, the surveyed CFOs cited as the most important factor "maintaining financial flexibility" — that is, keeping debt levels low in order to be ready for unforeseen opportunities.
		CFOs do seem to flex their intellectual muscles when choosing financial measures for capital budgeting.
	sloanreview.mit.edu /smr/issue/2001/winter/1h (765 words)

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	www.cfosfutures.com /cfos_futures_commodity_broker_jobs.htm (974 words)

	CFOs Remain Optimistic on Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Rothberg noted that last quarter the surveyed CFOs as a group had been accurate in predicting that the market was overestimating the increase in rates.
		Now that mutual funds must publicly disclose their proxy votes, just over half of the public company CFOs surveyed say these institutional investors are more interested in their companies' business and corporate governance practices than they were a year ago.
		CFOs from both public and private companies and from a broad range of industries, revenues and geographic areas, including some off-shore companies, are represented.
	accounting.smartpros.com /x45285.xml (705 words)

	CEOs vs. CFOs - Who's smarter? By Daniel Gross (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Of the 293 American CFOs surveyed on Feb. 27, only 46 percent were more optimistic about the economy than they had been in the most recent quarter.
		But it is clear that the CFOs and CEOs surveyed simply don't see eye to eye on a range of issues.
		While the CEO is the ultimate boss, "CFOs are the ones who write the checks, and they're a little closer to the ground." In other words, since they're signing the bills, they know that the mixture of rising interest rates and health-care costs, higher fuel prices, and a weak dollar signal caution.
	slate.msn.com /id/2114378/fr/rss (900 words)

	USATODAY.com - CFOs join their bosses on the hot seat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		WorldCom says former CFO Scott Sullivan was fired because he improperly accounted for the costs of leasing network capacity that WorldCom hoped to resell to customers.
		Instead of accounting for the cost as an expense, which would reduce net income, he accounted for it as an asset that could be deferred and amortized over time.
		And Dan Cohrs, the CFO of Global Crossing, which filed the fourth-biggest bankruptcy case ever, has been accused by a former Global executive of financial high jinks.
	www.usatoday.com /money/telecom/2002-07-16-cfo.htm (988 words)

	Inorganic Lead Exposure in the Rat Activates Striatal cFOS Expression at Lower Blood Levels and Inhibits ...
		the amphetamine-induced expression of the cFOS gene in the striatum.
		Saline administration in the Pb50 group resulted in a low level of cFOS gene activation, that was significant compared with the saline-challenged untreated-control (C).
		the cFOS gene in the absence of the amphetamine challenge.
	jpet.aspetjournals.org /cgi/content/full/310/2/815 (4585 words)

	CFO: Magazine for Senior Financial Executives: When CFOs get emotional - readers write - Brief Article
		CFO IT is a great publication that always gives me food for thought.
		CFOs are perhaps the most ROI-conscious people in the executive suite, yet most CFOs don't think an ROI analysis is essential in making an IT investment, even though IT has been one of the most scrutinized purchase areas in many companies over the past several years!
		CFOs buy on perceived merit, and that perception is probably more influenced by "educated gut feel" than by ROI.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3870/is_15_19/ai_110622900 (284 words)

	How CFOs Stretch BOUNDARIES
		This broadening of the CFO position at countless companies across the country is being driven in part by technological advances that have freed CFOs from routine information-gathering chores.
		Kremer’s decision to become a corporate CFO was partially due to his frustration with the risks of running a practice where employee retention and training had become a constant and costly concern.
		Now the deputy chief administrative officer for the U.S. House of Representatives, Davenport served as CFO of the Milton Hershey School in Hershey, Pennsylvania, a private school for at-risk children, from 1994 through 2000, and for two years prior to that was CFO of the Seattle school district.
	www.aicpa.org /pubs/jofa/may2002/myers.htm (2798 words)

	CFOs for Hire
		Eager to build a career that would let her flex her problem-solving skills, in 1999 Jamison joined Tatum CFO Partners, a national partnership of financial professionals who provide CFO services to companies on a permanent or temporary basis.
		Jamison is a new breed of CFO: a change agent with a wide range of technical skills who is willing to parachute into a challenging environment, do the heavy lifting and then move on to the next assignment.
		For CPAs contemplating life as an itinerant CFO, the road to success begins with understanding what employers want from an interim executive, deciding whether the rewards—and the potential pitfalls—match their own personality and career goals and making the right contacts to win assignments.
	www.aicpa.org /pubs/jofa/apr2003/myers.htm (3209 words)

	Tampa Bay CFOs Utilizing Consultants Less Often Than a Year Ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sixteen percent of CFOs surveyed said their firms are currently using outside consultants to supplement there accounting staffing needs.
		Of the CFOs polled, 84 percent forecast that they do not use outside consulting help at all.
		In a similar survey conducted by Taylor White in August of 2002, 22 percent of CFOs polled indicated that they do utilize outside help, and 78 percent said that they did not.
	www.twcareers.com /pr_070803.cfm (296 words)

	Tech Firms' CFOs Less Optimistic About Economy
		About one-third (33%) of technology-company CFOs are more optimistic about their companies' financial prospects than last quarter, but an almost equal number (30%) are less optimistic.
		Thirty-seven percent of high-tech CFOs, meantime, said their companies were "not at all recovered" from the recession -- the highest percentage of any industry group.
		Technology company CFOs say that their companies' third quarter earnings will be higher than the second quarter's, but they expect an average increase of just 4.9% -- in the low range of earnings expectations.
	www.internetnews.com /fina-news/article.php/1376811 (927 words)

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