CASE STUDY: Oversight Systems...

Oversight Systems, Inc. is a privately-held, Atlanta-based software company whose continuous transaction monitoring solutions help Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries solve problems related to governance, risk and compliance. Listen to Oversight’s CEO Patrick Taylor on his experience with TechCFO. (Click button to play. TRT: 1:02). Download the 1-Page PDF of the Oversight Systems Case Study View related...

Industry Change?...

It’s fairly rare these days for large companies to take a bet on a CFO from an industry far afield of their own. CFO’s analysis of Audit Analytics data shows that of the approximately 77 S&P 500 companies that have had a new CFO start since January 1, 2009, only 15, or about 20%, came from other industries. Even then, many of the other industries were closely related to that of the hiring company. A majority...

Credit Still Crunched?...

New issuance of syndicated, revolving lines of credit dropped 28% by dollar volume in 2009, according to data from Reuters Loan Pricing, as companies shifted their sources of liquidity and reduced reliance on bank credit. The $547 billion in volume issued was one-third 2007’s record issuance of $1.68 trillion, but the drop was less than 2008’s fall of 55%. Investment-grade issuance in 2009 was slightly less than...

Get Well with Wellness Programs?...

While employee health-improvement programs have become more and more popular as a way to contain firms’ health-care costs in recent years, very few companies actually know how much their investments in such programs as on-site flu shots and free annual checkups are yielding, according to a recent survey of large employers by Fidelity Investments and the National Business Group on Health. Virtually all companies now...