Cost reduction targets missed by 81% of companies
Cost reduction remains top-of-mind for your fellow CFOs: 84% of U.S. companies plan to undertake new initiatives in the next 24 months.
Cost Control
Managing travel spend in today’s business world
As finance leaders know well, business travel is booming. And that puts controlling travel spend high on your priority list.
Should you ban these 10 words from your Finance department?
You hear them all the time – maybe you even use them now and then. But should these 10 words receive a time-out?
Supreme Court DOMA ruling: 7 bases for Finance to cover
You’ll feel the impact of the Supreme Court’s historic rulings on gay marriage fast, no matter what state you’re located in.
What budget? The $822K T&E bill taxpayers will foot
You’d think the $3,200 employees of the GSA spent on a mind reader could have told them this business trip wasn’t a good idea!
NO IMAGE.
Raises are coming back – will they arrive in your department?
Spring is just a few weeks away, but there’s an even more encouraging thaw looming: on your salary.
NO IMAGE.
British Airways to staff: 'Work for free?'
While many companies have employed a variety of survival strategies, British Airways took cost control to an entirely new level with its latest move — asking employees to work for nothing.
NO IMAGE.
5 signs they don’t have a clue about cost control
It seems like a goal any red-blooded CFO would find tough to argue with: reduce the company’s costs. Unless people are going about it the wrong way.
NO IMAGE.
Spending attitude that's sinking your peers
OK, finance execs, say you had a magic wand. What’s the one thing you would change in your company? It might get some chuckles, but there’s one answer that comes up over and over.
NO IMAGE.
