A Big Six Report Card - Should you depend on one major firm for every project from audit and tax to niche specialties? Here's how some financial managers slice and dice their consulting dollars to ensure a firm's expertise matches their specific needs.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com.     Author: Joanne Sammer   

An Overview of the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing - How professional internal audit standards define the practice of internal auditing, and a discussion of whether The Standards are still relevent.
Publisher: Mark R. Simmons     Author: Mark R. Simmons   

Audit Committees: Good Practices for Meeting Market Expectations - Audit Committees: Good Practices for Meeting Market Expectations is a new international publication covering all aspects of an audit committee's work.
Publisher: PricewaterhouseCoopers     Author: PricewaterhouseCoopers   

Auditor Independence: A Bit More Rope - The SEC's final version of its new rule on auditor independence wasn't as harsh as the proposal would have suggested. That gives audit firms, especially the Big Five, a little more breathing room.
Publisher: Financial Executive Online Edition     Author: Joanne Rockness, Susan Ivancevich and Thomas Keaveny   

Building a better audit committee - The board of directors' audit committee has even more responsibility than ever, considering all kinds of law, regulations, shareholders' counsel, journalists hovering about, etc.
Publisher: Business Law Today     Author: Mark Kessel   

A Simple Method to Link Productivity to Profitability - Information technology investments may increase employee productivity without affecting the bottom line. Solution: an easy-to-implement model that links productivity to profitability.
Publisher: Management Accounting Quarterly     Author: Mohan P. Rao   

A star to sail by? - How do you really know whether your firm is doing well? Consultants everywhere are touting new techniques for gauging the value that firms create for their owners.
Publisher: The Economist     Author: The Economist   

Accountability in Knowledge-Based Organizations - We hear a lot about the need for improved 'accountability' in our organizations and institutions, and we all have a 'common sense' notion of what is meant by this term. Yet 'accountability' has remained elusive in practice.
Publisher: The CEO Refresher     Author: Bruce Klatt and Shaun Murphy   

Business Valuation - An excellent overview of the business valuation process for business owners and chief executives.
Publisher: The CEO Refresher     Author: Michael Hoffman   

Calculating the Real Value of High-Tech Companies - Dramatic fluctuations in the stock prices of Internet companies have been common. As a result, it's often very difficult to determine the real value of those companies. This article explains some of the problematic accounting practices and other issues behind valuing high-tech companies.
Publisher: Gigalaw.com     Author: Jay Hollander