Financial Executive: January 2012

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Cover Story

Looking Forward

Looking Forward


Feature Article

Financial Reporting: Making Financial Reports More Effective and Useful

Following the corporate financial scandals and the credit crisis, the spotlight is on financial information — from a qualitative and quantitative perspective. This year, expect more focus on relevance, understandability and timeliness.

Legal: Preparing for Global Securities Litigation & Regulatory Enforcement Expansion

In a post-financial crisis, Dodd-Frank world, companies trading on multiple international stock exchanges must be ever-vigilant against new threats posed by global securities litigation andregulatory enforcement activity.

Economic Outlook: 2012 Forecast: Recovery... Or Recession?

Economic unrest across Europe, unsettled global banking networks and political and fiscal uncertainty in the U.S. — as well as contentious presidential and congressional elections — are some of the major issues setting the global economic agenda this year.

Growth: Extreme, Unstable Environment? Grow Anyway!

Best-selling author and researcher Jim Collins talks about characteristics ofleading companies that have managed phenomenal growth, through good times and bad.

Every Issue

From the President: FEI President & CEO’s Top Challenges for Financial Executives for 2012

While a major restructuring of the tax code is unlikely prior to the election, it’s clear that everything is on the table.

From the Editor: 2012: Ready to Take the Plunge?


News & Reviews


Financial Reporting Column: FASB’s Consolidation Exposure Draft ... Explained


Washington Beat: More Money Market Reform Likely


The Office


Global Glance: Emerging Growth Beyond the BRICs

There is a small crop of up-and-coming countries — among them Rwanda and Peru — that against heavy odds and tragic histories are making positive economic strides, although socially and especially politically, both nations have much work to do.

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FE Online Exclusives

Accounting Standard Setting and IFRS Incorporation: The Future of Convergence and Endorsement

Uncertainty continues as to whether and if so, when, the U.S. will move to convergence with IFRS. Four major projects of FASB and IASB still in the works have slowed the process for SEC consideration.

Hedging Deferred Compensation Risk Economically: What Every Executive Must Know