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Upcoming webcasts include. "Trading Rulers for Calculators - Upgrading Performance Measurements," on August 20 at 1 PM ET, “IT Infrastructure Transformation: Not Just Your CIO's Problem,” on August 21 at 3 PM ET and “Delivering Exceptional Shareholder Value: Analysis of Leading Edge Performance within the Automotive Supply Base” on August 22, at 1 PM ET. Join these and other webcasts designed for executive-level audiences on important developments affecting business.
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As social media and social business expand, internal audit (IA) is an important, but often overlooked, resource organizations have to help assess, monitor and reduce associated risks. With their training, experience and broad view of the organization, internal auditors can play a vital role in an organization's social business initiative. Learn areas where IA can help develop processes and implement controls to address reputational, governance and third-party risks.
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COSO's recent update to its baseline internal control framework guidance adds a more formal structure that highlights risk interdependencies and updated principles that place a greater emphasis on IT risk and related controls, as well as the quality of information. Learn how the new framework provides companies with enhanced ways to think about risks and controls using the more formal structure of principles and points of focus for each of the five components of internal control.
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CFOs expressed more optimism in the second quarter of 2013 over their companies' prospects since the first quarter of 2012, according to Deloitte's most recent CFO Signals™ survey, while expectations for sales rose modestly and expectations for earnings dipped, compared with the first quarter of 2013. The increase in optimism appeared mostly among CFOs in the Energy/Resources and Retail/Wholesale sectors. Learn CFOs' expectations on five key metrics: sales, earnings, capital spending, dividends and hiring.
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When it comes to realizing deal value, integration strategy and its execution can be as important as the M&A; strategy itself. Inbound acquirers, as detailed in “Branching Out: 10 Questions for Inbound U.S. Investors,” can face even more complexities in delivering on expected synergies. Learn six ways CFOs can help drive a deal effectively to value creation by identifying the appropriate sequence of activities and milestones, and lining up tools to help achieve them.
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The ACA is a central issue in the FY14 budget debate underway, and likely a major part of Campaign 2014. Given that many view the U.S. health system's performance unfavorably, why those in the U.S. are so divided about the ACA? Read today's “My Take” to learn more about the public's opinion about the law, and, perhaps more importantly, the underlying reasons the law sparks a divisiveness in the U.S. society.
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The third-quarter edition of Global Economic Outlook offers timely insights from Deloitte Research economists about China, Japan, the United States, the eurozone, the United Kingdom, India, Russia and Brazil. In addition, this issue features a special section “Consumers and the recession: Trends in eurozone consumer spending.”
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The mandate that federal agencies transition to a shared-services provider when updating financial management systems entails significant implementation risks. The upside: It could free up CFOs to focus on providing value-added insights. Clarence Crawford, leader of Deloitte's Federal Financial Management Solutions Center and former CFO, Office of Personnel Management, discusses how federal CFOs can address implementation challenges such as change management.
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The latest issue of Deloitte's “Heads Up” newsletter discusses the FASB's recently issued proposed Accounting Standards Update Insurance Contracts, which is part of the FASB-IASB joint project to attempt to create a consistent approach for measuring insurance contracts. The newsletter also contains several appendices, including a comparison of the FASB's proposal with current U.S. GAAP and a comparison of the proposal with the IASB's exposure draft.
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Upcoming webcasts include. "Basel III: How U.S. Regulatory Capital Requirements and Compliance Efforts Are Taking Shape,” on August 13 at 2 PM ET and “A Global Talent Model: Key to Expansion in Emerging Markets?” on August 14, at 2 PM ET. Join these and other webcasts designed for executive-level audiences on important developments affecting business
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From the perspective of large-company CFOs, the most positive factor in helping their companies grow is the status of the North American economies, according to Deloitte's second-quarter 2013 CFO Signals™ survey. Other top aids to growth cited include industry-specific demand, technology advancements, the state of the Chinese economy and capital cost/availability. Meanwhile, CFOs indicate their companies continue to face significant public policy and competitive pressures.
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CFOs are becoming more involved in helping execute on business strategy, and when CFOs make that shift, it benefits the finance team and the company overall, according to Frank Calderoni, executive vice president and CFO of Cisco Systems, Inc. In this second of two articles, he discusses how his finance team helped lead a major business transformation at Cisco and his own expanded role in setting and executing business strategy, plus some important lessons learned along the way.
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