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Middle managers certify their numbers. Also: Auditors make a company fire its sterling CFO; blind trusts for stock options; the SEC levies fines but doesn't collect them; and more.

Strategic Planning Meets Business Performance
"Performance" is its middle name -- can new software help companies link past, present, and future?

What You Don't Know About Sarbanes-Oxley
Snares, pitfalls, and trapdoors: Sarbanes-Oxley is full of surprises. Here are five that top the list.

Strategic Planning Meets Business Performance
Long-term strategic planning is giving way to flexible approaches. But agile planning requires powerful analytics tools.

Better Data, Better Performance Management
Dirty data renders analytics software useless. Improving data quality is an ongoing and expensive process, but data cleansing efforts can pay for themselves.

5 Moves Toward Better BPM
Best practices in business performance management often start as a grassroots movement. The companies most likely to succeed take five basic actions.

Strategic Planning Meets Business Performance
Long-term strategic planning is giving way to flexible approaches. But agile planning requires powerful analytics tools.

Questions of Value
Is fair-value accounting the best way to measure a company? The debate heats up.

The Big Squeeze: Our Ninth Annual Cost Management Survey
Companies have wrung out plenty of costs. But it will take time to see the full impact.

Your Finance Department Is Second-Rate
Not certain how your finance department stacks up? Here are ten markers of mediocrity.

Board Games
Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game. Plus: Finance executives sound off about audit committees in a new CFO survey

Strategic Planning Meets Business Performance
by Tad Leahy
Long-term strategic planning is giving way to flexible approaches. But agile planning requires powerful analytics tools.

Turning Managers Into Forecasters
Bringing managers into the forecasting process can dramatically improve performance management. But success depends on the quality of your software and on close collaboration between finance and line managers.