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In an attempt to build a finance organization able to deliver on the new mandate for value creation, leading CFOs are moving beyond reorganization to a fundamental rethinking of performance metrics,activities, and staff skill profiles.
Matching Measures to Mandate in Internal Audit
For too long Internal Audit has assessed its contribution by what is easy to measure; now is the time to evaluate performance on what is most important.
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In Wyeth, Pfizer Sees a Drug Pipeline
The world's leading drugmaker looks to Wyeth's portfolio to save billions of dollars through cutting duplicative costs and to expand its drug pipeline, analysts say.
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Optimizing Capital Deployment
For the first time in at least 20 years, companies are returning more cash to shareholders than they are investing in the business, yet idle cash balances are still growing. Treasury Leadership Roundtable research examines best practices in making capital structure decisions.
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