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Financial Executive: January 2012
Cover Story
Feature Article
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Best-selling author and researcher Jim Collins talks about characteristics ofleading companies that have managed phenomenal growth, through good times and bad.
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Every Issue
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While a major restructuring of the tax code is unlikely prior to the election, it’s clear that everything is on the table.
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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
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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.
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