CMA - the Management Accounting Magazine articles from April 1996

CMA - the Management Accounting Magazine archives from April 1996

Forensic accounting.(Cover Story)
April 1, 1996... With burgeoning economic pressures and society's weakening values, the forensic accountant, acting like a bloodhound rather than a watchdog, has become the private eye of corporate culture. In many cases, when you hear the word "forensic,"...

Portable computing.
April 1, 1996... Laptops? Notebooks? Mobiles? Everyone has heard about portable computers. They're lightweight, compact and, thanks to longer battery life, can be booted for action almost anywhere. A portable PC keeps employees connected to the office while on...

Noranda and IT: can we talk? (information-technology management at Noranda Inc.)
April 1, 1996... It's no accident that talking about Noranda Inc.'s new corporate computing model involves more discussion of customer service than of bits and bytes. Besides aiming to increase productivity, the resource giant decided to stand its IT function on...

How to benchmark the performance of your finance function. (includes related article)
April 1, 1996... Assess the good, the bad and the ugly of your operation, and perform this quick diagnostic to see how you stack up against world-wide trends. Benchmarking is the comparison of similar processes across organizations, companies and industries to...

The CFO's role in corporate governance. (chief financial officer)
April 1, 1996... Financial executives are well positioned to strengthen the links between corporate governance and management controls - and foster organizational success and survival. Recent failings of corporate governance have been well documented and...

Great Plains Software - Dynamics LAN.(Information Management) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 1, 1996... Great Plains Software (GPS) has been providing strong and stable accounting and financial management software solutions since 1981. In 1993 GPS introduced Dynamics version 1.0, one of the first graphical accounting systems for Windows and...