Excellent Execution: Strategy, Innovation, and Profits
September 7-9, 2008
Four Seasons Hotel, Washington, DC
Institutional Investor’s 29th Annual Corporate Financial Executive Roundtable will continue to address the most pressing and timely issues facing senior financial executives so as to provide those executives with the ideas and the solutions they and their companies need to succeed. More than 50 chief financial officers and treasurers from the larger US companies will convene at this year’s Roundtable as we explore the most pressing business topics that will impact their jobs and their companies in the year ahead.
As with all Institutional Investor events, this meeting is by invitation only. Senior financial executives who would like to be considered for an invitation should contact Nancy Kidd at (212) 224-3832 or via email at NKidd@iiconferences.com.
Service providers that would like to speak in front of this exclusive audience should contact Denise Coleman at (212) 224-3907 or via email at DColeman@iiconferences.com.
Times like these often cause us to reevaluate what is working and what isn’t, and to reassess where we stand vis-à-vis important constituencies like competitors, shareholders, employees, chief executives and boards, etc. Senior financial executives have gotten quite good at strategy for the most part, but maybe it is time to renew our focus on execution — turning those strategies into action in the most intelligent, efficient, cost-effective, and productive ways possible. After all, is it the strategizing itself or the implementation of those ideas that helps any firm distance itself from its competitors and provide better value to its shareholders? Arguably, both. But it is the CFO, in his/her role as business partner to the CEO, who is ultimately made or broken by his ability to execute.
This year’s theme, Excellent Execution: Strategy, Innovation, and Profits will explore that idea. As always, the 2008 Corporate Financial Executive Roundtable will explore the full array of issues facing senior financial executives and their companies, but it will pay special heed to how participants can excel in terms of delivering on the promises they make to their chief executives, employees, and shareholders. The program, conceptualized and guided by an Advisory Board of your peers, will consider such topics as:
- How to manage through a market cycle — obtaining financing, labor force, managing costs, how do you maintain the same level of customer service while keep costs in line with the business?
- The HR function within finance — staffing, training, retaining, succession issues
- Managing outside influences on business and audit committees
- Share repurchasing — Is it the best use of your cash?
- How to improve terms and conditions of credit
- Managing new market methods — text messaging, mobile commerce
- Intellectual property — In how many countries do you need to protect your name and your brand equity?
- How do you manage internal risk and potential fraud?
- Care and feeding of shareholders (targeted investors)
- Placement for best tax rates and low payroll
- XBRL — Extensive Business Reporting Language
- Tax management — the movement toward a unitary approach by the states
- Impending changes to the tax code
- Fiduciary responsibility for legacy and active DB plans
- What are the dollar benefits of “going green”? Is it about more than marketing and communications?
- How to manage the IR function better
- International M&A
- Master Data Management
