CFO Magazine Presents “Emerging Trends for Sustaining a Resilient Company (formerly CFO Rising) MyCFONetwork Discount Now Available Save $600! Use Discount Code MCN-DIS One of the most critical challenges for CFOs is to ensure sustainable growth for their companys future. This is a multidimensional task requiring thoughtful deployment of financial strategies and tools, and paying close attention to essential input from all sources as carefully as possible. A company must also be resilient in order to anticipate and adapt quickly to changing circumstances, maintain a reputation as a trustworthy partner, and foster growth. The CFO Leadership Summit (formerly CFO Rising)takes a 360 degree view at some of the most...

If you furnish services, material or equipment used in making improvements to real property you need to understand how House Bill 2093 affects the indemnity provisions in your contracts. What Contracts Are Affected The statute applies to all construction contracts that are entered after January 1, 2012.  Generally, any contract relating to the design, construction, alteration, renovation, remodeling, repair or maintenance of improvements to real property would be considered a construction contract.  Note that definition includes many arrangements that are not within the common understanding of “construction contract”, including: engineering, design, construction management and other services relating to the construction project equipment leases for equipment used in the construction project material purchases performance...

I attended a conference in Miami earlier this week hosted by CFO Publishing with an exciting lineup of guest speakers and two jam-packed days of networking and education.   One of the first speakers to address the audience was Barry Schwartz, Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College.    Barry’s topic of discussion was titled The Paradox of Choice and proved to be very interesting and enlightening.   To sum up an hour lecture will not be easy but here it goes.  I’ll put this in a format that gets right to the point.  Overall, Barry is telling us that as individuals we have too many...