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May 2012
April 2012
- Reinventing the Retail Supply Chain
- Pursuing Exit Readiness Strategies
- Top 10 Payroll Mistakes Companies Make
March 2012
- Fast-Tracking Finance: Balancing Performance Improvement and Controls
- Too Little, Too Late: How to Avoid the Bank Secrecy Act / Anti-Money Laundering Look-Back
- What Lies Ahead for U.S. Commercial Banks?
February 2012
January 2012
December 2011
- Fast-Tracking Finance: The Good Leadership Remedy
- Asian Private Equity: Creating Value in Portfolio Businesses
November 2011
- Build Your Supply Chain IQ: From Good Intent to Great Execution
- Effectively Facing a Government Enforcement Action
- Investing in China Real Estate: What It Really Takes to Succeed
- The View from Inside: A Conversation with the CIO
October 2011
- Survey on U.K. Competitiveness: Slicing the Foreign Investment Pie
- Fast-Tracking Finance: Preparing Finance Employees for Merger Integration
- Thrift Banks: Transition in a Changing Regulatory Environment
September 2011
- Eye on Tax: Expecting a Step-Up on Your S Corporation Acquisition? Structure Carefully!
- Five Common Ways Management Incentive Plans Create Stealth Enterprise Risk
- Using Enterprise Architecture to Achieve Your Business Objective
- Fast-Tracking Finance: Decision Making for Back-Office Consolidations
August 2011
July 2011
- Eye on Tax: Changes in Transaction Cost Analyses - What You Should Know
- Government Leadership in Challenging Times (Summer edition)
- Mapping It Out – Using Technology as a Strategic Advantage in Litigation
- The Boardroom Tax Gap
- Fast-Tracking Finance: Technology Solutions to Enhance Payables Performance
June 2011
- Regulating OTC Derivatives: Will It Solve Systemic Risk?
- Eye on Tax: Don't Forget the SALT - State and Local Tax Planning Strategies Under FAS 109 and FIN 48
- What Does a Chapter 11 or 7 Trustee, Examiner or Receiver Need?
- Fast-Tracking Finance: Achieving World-Class Cost Optimization
May 2011
- Eye on Tax: Maximizing the Opportunity of Transfer Pricing Designs
- The Case for Clarity and Accountability
- Crescent Resources: A Chance to Rebuild
- Restructuring is Key to Banks' Survival in 2011 – U.K. & Ireland
- Cash is King – A Healthy Trend
- Government Leadership in Challenging Times (May edition)
April 2011
- Eye on Tax: Unforgiven – Lack of Proper Documentation Can Jeopardize Your Research Credit
- When Worlds Collide: Cloud Computing and Corporate IT
- Practical Steps for Spotting Trouble as a New Board Member
- Fast-Tracking Finance: ERP-in-the-Cloud – Look Before You Leap
March 2011
- Eye on Tax: Executive Compensation – The Impact of the Dodd-Frank Act
- The Complexity of Compliance Under the U.K. Bribery Act
- Visteon: The Road to Recovery
- Confessions of an Interim CIO: Insights into IT Transition and Transformation
- Fast-Tracking Finance: The People Side of Finance
February 2011
- Eye on Tax: A Great Divide - 2011 Business and a 1959 Nexus Standard
- People Skills: Effective Human Resources Management in Carve-Outs
- Chemtura: Finding the Formula for Success
- Navigating the Complex Compliance Requirements of the U.K. Bribery Act
- Why Overcoming IT Challenges is Critical to the Success of "Carve-Outs"
January 2011
- Fast-Tracking Finance: Cardinal Rules for Becoming a Successful CFO
- Eye on Tax: Adequately Disclosing Foreign Tax Effects in Your Financial Statements
- Insolvency Then and Now
- Preparing for the Impact of FASB's Accounting Lease Changes
December 2010
- Restructuring: Year in Review
- Eye on Tax: Congress and Year-End Tax Decisions
- Debunking the Myth: 100-Day Planning in Private Equity
November 2010
October 2010
- HIRE Act Offers Significant Tax Savings
- Challenges Ahead for the Commercial Real Estate Sector
- Strategic Considerations of Earnout Provisions
- Payment Processing: A Diamond in the Rough?
September 2010
- Persistently High Unemployment: Dark Days Ahead for U.S. Hospitals
- IT Trends in Retail
- Q&A: Implementing Sales Strategies to Drive Top-Line Improvements
July / August 2010
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