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Financial Advice: Balancing the Needs of Three Generations

Women & Co | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Family Finance, Caregiving, Aging, Cfo, Finances, Financial Advice, Helping Parents Finance, Personal Finance Advice, Personal Finance Tips, Retirement Savings, Personal Finance, Family Personal Finance, Parents News

As a consequence of an aging population, more working Americans are finding themselves faced with saving for retirement while sandwiched between financial obligations to children and to parents and older relatives.

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Let's Value People as an Asset, and Bring Financial Statements into the 21st Century

R. Paul Herman | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: India, The Financial Fix, Financial Meltdown, Managing People, Infosys, Financial Reform, Assets, People, Sustainability, Wharton School, Best Places to Work, Gaap, Cfo, Business News

People are generally classified as expenses on the income statement and liabilities on the balance sheet -- not as an investable asset. Thus, when CEOs seek to increase profit, they cut costs -- like people -- rather than investing in assets -- like people -- that can appreciate.

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Small Business CFOs: Do You Need One?

Janine Popick | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Small Business, Groupon, Chief Financial Officer, Ceos, Cfo, Bookkeeper, Accountant, Small Business Revenue, Venture Capital, Small Business Marketing, Small Business Venture Capital, Small Business News

It's a growing pain that many small businesses have. Company founders and CEOs are rarely equipped to handle financing strategies, budgets and dealing with investors. But bringing on a chief financial officer is not cheap.

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Wells Fargo Turns To Cost-Cutting As Profits Rise By 30 Percent

AP | EILEEN AJ CONNELLY | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Cost Cutting, Mortgage Lender, Net Interest, Economy, Wells Fargo, New Mortgages, Cfo, Waning Profits, Housing Clump, San Francisco, Business News

NEW YORK — The nation's largest mortgage lender is turning to cost-cutting as the economy sputters and the grinding housing slump means waning p...

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Fannie Mae Appoints Industry Veteran As New Chief Financial Officer

AP | Posted 08.22.2011

Read More: Susan Mcfarland, Freddie Mac, Capital One, Chief Financial Officer, Mcfarland Fannie, David Hisey, Cfo, Fannie Mae, Banking Industry, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Fannie Mae is naming banking industry veteran Susan McFarland as its chief financial officer. McFarland takes over for deputy CFO David...

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The C-Level Job for Everyone: Reducing Complexity

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Bp, Goldman Sachs, Toyota, Cfo, Ceo, BP Oil Spill, Harvard Business School, C-Level, Harvard Business Review, Business News

A 2010 study of over 1,500 chief executive officers by IBM's Institute for Business Value identified "the rapid escalation of complexity" as the number one challenge facing CEOs.

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Portfolio Mysteries: Do You Know What's In Your 401K?

Phil Trupp | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 401(K), Cfo, Wall Street, Securities and Exchange Commission, Dodd-Frank, Business, Stocks, Business News

If you're like millions of other savers who don't have time to do your own analysis, you probably assume the manager of your account is a guru or rare collection of financial wizards.

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Job Opening: CFO Of Al-Qaida

The Big Money | Martha C. White | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Council on Foreign Relations, Pakistan, Al-Qaida, 9/11, Cfo, Heik Saeed Al-Masri, Osama Bin Laden, Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, Business News

Got a thirst for adventure, an unquenchable religious fervor, and a willingness to trade in the corner office for a cave? Then al-Qaida has the job fo...

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Maurice Greenberg Gets AIG Resolves All Legal Disputes with Greenberg

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — American International Group Inc. has agreed to settle all legal disputes with its former chairman Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the comp...

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Google Takes Its Sweet Time Finding New CFO

Forbes | Wendy Tanaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sergey Brin, Geroge Reyes, Eric Schmidt, Google Jobs, Larry Page, CFO, Google, Matt Furman, Business News

Everyone wants to work at Google. It's a money machine with a stock price bouncing around $700. The employees are brilliant and free organic meals are...

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