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By Deepa Seetharaman
March 2, 2009
Sagging Index no longer reflects what’s going on in the market, some say, Replacements? Google it, to start.
By Hans-Werner Sinn
March 2, 2009
Downward price spiral will actually boost the cost of capital for most companies. CFOS, take note.
By Ronald Fink
March 2, 2009
The latest bailout at AIG could be a preview of how the president will deal with Wall Street.
By Matthew Quinn
March 2, 2009
No corporate defaults. Big debt offerings. Percolating CP issuance. Things may be looking up in the capital markets.
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Third quarter M&A activity
Provided by Thomson Reuters
Buffeted by economic turmoil and lack of available funding, mergers & acquisition activity slowed down considerably in the the third quarter of the year. To get a detailed view of the M&A market, and a big picture view of where deal-making is likely headed in 2009, check out this update from Thomson Reuters.
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How can plan sponsors cope with volatile markets?
Provided by Hewitt’s Global Risk Services
2007 was a year of tremendous volatility in the financial markets. Credit markets were thrown into crisis due to the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market in the United States. Stock markets also felt shock waves associated with sub-prime write-downs.
Despite the volatility observed throughout the year, estimates its Pension Risk Tracker ended the year funded only slightly worse than it started the year, seeing the deficit position of $40 billion increase to a position of $46 billion, and closing at 96.7% funded.
This slight decline is primarily attributable to asset returns of 2.3% generally not meeting expectations, offset by a decline in pension obligations due to increases in corporate bond yields during 2007.But keeping funding levels up in 2008 will require a Herculean effort by plan sponsors. What lessons from 2007 can be applied to 2008 and beyond?
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One-touch business travel and the end of the expense report
Provided by Concur
Despite the fact that billions of dollars per year are spent on business travel and entertainment (T&E) by employees on behalf of their organizations:
- Many companies are still not maximizing the value of that spend because they're relying on multiple processes and solutions to manage their T&E.
- T&E is an area of spend that for many companies is the second largest controllable cost after payroll.
- Why is Travel and Expense Management still viewed as separate function by most organizations?
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Travel and procurement: the convergence
Provided by Concur
According to a recent Aberdeen Group survey, companies that don’t use an integrated travel and entertainment (T&E) expense management service, like Concur Travel & Expense, are falling behind in almost every measure of financial management. Aberdeen refers to these companies as “laggards” and presents figures showing that they pay 37% more to process their expense reports, they take three times longer to reimburse employees, and they’re essentially working in the dark when it comes to controlling travel expenditures.
Plus, Aberdeen estimates that almost one of every five T&E expenses submitted at these companies is in direct violation of corporate policy
Here’s just some of what you’ll learn: Travel and procurement philosophies that best-in-class companies utilize.
- Benefits of an integrated organizational travel and procurement process.
- Steps to successfully integrate travel and procurement.
- How best-in-class companies achieve high adoption rates.
- Correlation between T&E compliance and technology.
- Plus much more.
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Avoiding the compliance trap for travel and expenses
Provided by Concur
Organizations weighing T&E automation should look beyond the value of streamlining the process to solutions that include analytic and reporting features that enforce compliance controls and provide audit evidence while minimizing business risks associated with uncontrolled spending and fraud. These more robust solutions are part of the extended enterprise applications market experiencing greater investment as a result of governance, risk, and compliance requirements.
Get the answers to the following questions posed by travel and expense management services provider Concur to Kathleen Wilhide, research director for IDC’s Compliance and Business Performance Management (BPM) Solutions research, on behalf of Concur’s customers.
1. What are the compliance issues surrounding employee travel and expense
2. Which industries are particularly at risk for noncompliance, and why?
3 What can companies do to improve internal controls and compliance?
4. How is the value proposition for automating T&E evolving?
5. What should companies look for in an on-demand provider of travel booking and expense reporting solutions?
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Businesses living In change (BLINC) ... Please blink!
Provided by Agresso, the ERP market's definition of agility &trade
Project-based businesses are demanding higher quality products and services from their IT providers, but it's Agresso's opinion that in many cases, they are still settling for less than they deserve. This is particularly true in the mid-market sector, where the large ERP providers who focused for decades on tier one manufacturing companies are providing solutions that aren't a great fit for people-centric businesses.
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An overview of trade credit insurance
Provided by Euler Hermes ACI
Trade credit insurance is a business insurance product that indemnifies a seller against losses from non-payment of commercial trade debt. This white paper, written by Joe Ketzner, executive vice president, Commercial, at Euler Hermes ACI, discusses the importance of business-to-business accounts receivable, the philosophy behind trade credit insurance, how the policy works, and whether trade credit insurance is right for your company.
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The role of business process outsourcing in transforming financing and accounting
Provided by EquaTerra Research
EquaTerra, in conjunction with Outsourcing Today LLC, launched a comprehensive study of finance and accounting executives to address the following two critical issues.
- What efforts are organizations undertaking to improve and transform their finance and accounting operations?
-What role can and will Information Technoloy and Business Process Outsourcing play in enabling improvement and transformation?
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Mixing it up with insourcing, outsourcing and offfshoring
Provided by EquaTerra
Most research shows that offshoring and outsourcing are clearly the next wave of improvement initiatives for delivery of support services, but how do you decide whether outsourcing or offshoring are right for your organization?
Having assisted a number of companies make the internal build vs. external outsource, and onshore vs. offshore decisions, certain lessons have been learned.
In this white paper, Bob Cecil, finance and accounting, and strategy practice leader at EquaTerra Research, shares some of those insights.
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