Financial Reporting
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IT fraud, damages triple for S'pore companies
News Study shows estimated financial cost of insider or third-party fraud last year jumped 224 percent over 2004, and nearly two-thirds of incidents involved the use of IT.
Tags: Data security, Risk Management, Risk Management, Fraud, Survey, compliance, KPMG Consulting Inc., financial reporting, financial, information technology
Malaysia won't capitalize on Satyam fallout
News Local outsourcing players can't compete directly with India, but will gain long-term benefits from increased transparency and governance, say market watchers.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Offshoring, Competitive advantage, Outsourcing, India, Positioning, International Data Corp., Malaysia, Kelly Outsourcing
Is your business run by chance?
Insight perspective The discipline you apply to managing your business' underlying processes can make all the difference, especially when times get tough, says analyst.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Business applications, Business development/management, Business structures, Process, Organization, Supplier, Quocirca, Clive Longbottom, Environment
Accounting rule change could boost Apple revenue
News Proposed change would allow Apple to recognize revenue for the iPhone immediately instead of over eight quarters.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Cellular phones, Apple Inc., GAAP, IEEE 802.11n, Apple TV, Apple iPod, technology company, Apple iPhone, accounting
Goodbye quarterly reports?
News Six financial heavyweights call for companies to overhaul financial reporting to make it more suited to the Internet age.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Financial
Unisys names acting CFO after exec departs
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Unisys CFO leaves for Kodak
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Chip sales chug along in February
News Chip sales held steady in February, the Semiconductor Industry Association announced Friday.
Microsoft shuffles its ledger
News Software maker adjusts financial reporting for its operation, combining several of its business units.
SEC fails own security and accounting tests
News National watchdog finds sensitive data at risk and problems with internal financial practices at the SEC.
Tags: Data security, Accounting
CA taps former HP exec as finance chief
News Computer Associates International's new chief financial officer is Jeff Clarke, who helped lead Hewlett-Packard's megamerger with Compaq.
Tags: Executive recruiting
SOX forces businesses to think holistic, says risk expert
News The Sarbanes-Oxley Act has had the "single greatest impact" in making companies focused and disciplined around the area of IT controls, says a Deloitte & Touche consultant.
Tags: Security, Sarbanes-Oxley, Risk Management, IT Governance
NetSuite unveils new tax engine, Asian language support
News New features will rope in global financial reporting standards in native languages.
Tags: Business applications, Customer resource management (CRM), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), SMB
IBM to pick up data analytics firm
News Alphablox will be the fifth company company Big Blue has bought to bolster its DB2 data management products.
Worldwide chip sales dip in January
News Global semiconductor sales dipped 1.7 percent in January, reflecting the industry's traditional post-holiday slowdown, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.
