IABFM Articles

Behaviorally-Based Budgeting – Or Will You Miss your Forecasts - Again (August 2008) | Wealth Management
by Dr. E. Ted Prince

It’s that time of the year at least for those companies who have a December fiscal year. Financial managers and budget officers will be doing their usual thing to get the budgets together. They will be working with managers on the business side to pare, slash, tweak or even discard them. In so doing they will draw on a variety of approaches ranging form the “scientific”, the intuitive and the forensic. Their approach will, or should be, to come up with a budget that they think most accurately reflects what is going to happen. ...[ Read More ]

Practical Corporate International Tax Compliance (August 2008) | Accounting
by Dr. George L. Salis with host Peter J. Loughlin, Esq.

An Exclusive Interview with Dr. George L. Salis ...[ Read More ]

Alternative Leadership – The Need for a Grand Unified Theory (August 2008) | Financial Management
by Dr. E. Ted Prince

Current leadership theories are outdated; new disciplines and disruptive changes call for a Grand Unified Leadership Theory. ...[ Read More ]

The Search for Talent – A Hong Kong Perspective (July 2008) | Markets
by By Sebastian Bombaci

Ten years ago the search for talented individuals hit newspaper headlines. Initially this focused on the shortage of knowledge workers in the information and communication sectors. Recently the focus has shifted to include a growing shortage of business managers as nations deal with the twin impact of ageing populations and the retirement of senior managers in the baby-boomer generation. ...[ Read More ]

Should Financial Managers go Green? (July 2008) | Financial Management
by Dr. E. Ted Prince

Traditionally being green has been seen as increasing costs. The stereotypical financial manager has seen environmentalism and carbon credits as increasing costs over the longer-term and as reducing margins. How should financial managers address these issues now in an age of ultra-high energy costs, new programs for carbon credits and of the triple bottom line? ...[ Read More ]