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At Treasury Shared-Services Center, Eight People Manage Cash and Risk in 11 Currencies for 50 Subsidiaries

Fujitsu Siemens Computers wanted to manage short- and long-term liquidity and market risk in volatile global financial environment and centralize treasury (to function as service center for 50 worldwide subsidiaries). The challenge was to manage global treasury with small team and clear assessment of liquidity and risk and the effect...

Tags: Treasury, SAP AG, Liquidity, Investment, Strategy, Security, Finance, Management

Case studies 2008-01-01

Solitaire Dozen Gold (exe)

Solitaire dozen gold offers 12 of the most popular solitaire variations in the world: Klondike, Spider, Free Cell, Pyramid, Tri Peaks, Golf, Addiction, Scorpion, Canfield, Yukon, Forty Thieves, and Monte Carlo. Its a treasury of great games and a golden opportunity for fun.

Tags: Treasury, Gold, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2006-11-26

Despite criticism, Treasury pushes big telecom contract forward.

The Treasury Dept. plans to continue with a massive telecommunications contract called TCE, even though the department's inspector general and a congressman have found it deeply flawed, Federal Times reports. The department poorly planned the procurement, leading to delays and higher costs, the Treasury Department IG said...

Tags: IG Report, Treasury

Blog posts 2006-02-21

Moving Toward an Integrated System for Treasury and Cash Management and In-House Banking

DSM Finance, the in-house financing company for DSM Group, was looking for an integrated financial system that could keep pace with DSM's ambitious growth strategy. It found the answer in mySAP Financials. The company first implemented the solution's corporate finance management, treasury, and cash management functionality, with plans to implement...

Tags: Treasury, Payment, SAP AG, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Finance

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Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spending

Ballmer seeks to justify Microsoft's bottomless-pit online spendingBallmer Justifies Bottomless PitIt's called his STOMACH.Where is the return on these investments?They are no closer to competing with Google than before Ballmer started this spending spree. When people think "search" they think Google. It's that simple. No one thinks Yahoo or...

Tags: Financial accounting, Microsoft Corp., Steve Ballmer, 3M Co.

Discussion threads 2008-07-24

Risking Another Frontline Disaster

The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...

Tags: FCC, Auction, Journal, M2Z, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-06

Talking Concise Oxford Thesaurus (exe)

Increase your word power. The Concise Oxford Thesaurus is a treasury of the language and a perfect tool to improve your writing style. It helps you choose the right word for every occasion, and gives you new synonyms for tired old words. It is indispensable for scientists writing dissertations, students...

Tags: Paragon Software, Word, Concise Oxford Thesaurus, Productivity

Software downloads 2008-06-02

Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?

Will EDS deal make HP Microsoft's IBM?DoubtfulAs I noted in my response to Paul Murphy, this looks a lot more like an HP that's run out of ideas and feels bound to play the serial acquisition game to disguise the fact, and maybe have some new cash cows ready for...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Electronic Data Systems Corp., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-05-13

Italy reveals population's tax, salary details

Italy's tax department posted every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on a site that was quickly overwhelmed by onlookers. According to the BBC: There has been outrage in Italy after the outgoing government published every Italian's declared earnings and tax contributions on the internet. ...

Tags: Italy, Tax Authority, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Online thieves worse than 1960s Mafia

It took Robert F. Kennedy to break the back of Mafia families like the Bonannos (that's Joe Bananas pictured) and we need that kind of dedicated commitment to stop today's equivalent of organized crime: online scammers, many of them from Eastern Europe. That was the message Attorney General Michael Mukasey...

Tags: Banking, Government, Federal Government, Financial Services, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Microsoft's quarter, outlook mixed; Client revenue misses; Xbox shines

Microsoft's quarter, outlook mixed; Client revenue misses; Xbox shinesFor reference:This quarter was the one year anniversary of all those Vista coupons being cashed and the profits recorded. That's a reason the numbers were lower this year.Vista SP 1 was not released in time to produce a level of new...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Taxes, Microsoft Xbox, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-04-24

Whispers will not kill fair use

Whispers will not kill fair useDon't discount the power of briberyThe amount of money and influence poured into Congressional coffers by the media cartel is huge. Add to that the fact that both elected officials and bureaucrats suffer from "star worship" as the general populace. Just look at the Hilary...

Tags: Government, GWB, fair use, international law, epitome, indifference

Discussion threads 2008-04-10

Gag lifted, Verizon, AT&T, Google open up on FCC 700 Mhz auction

The Federal Communications Commission has lifted its gag order on the winners of the 700 Mhz auction and those telecom giants have been a chatty bunch. And all of them are talking about advanced wireless broadband service. A brief recap Techmeme: AT&T reckons that...

Tags: FCC, Google Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Spectrum, Auction, Wireless Broadband, Broadband Internet, Wireless, Telecommunications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-04

Survey: CIOs moderately upbeat about IT spending

Survey: CIOs moderately upbeat about IT spending"Solid maybe ; though the huge oil transfer into China isn't French"There is one full year ahead of this Yuan and U.S. Treasury one dollar note to benchmark with the rising transportation expansion. I guess we'll be reading all about it here, since I...

Tags: Transportation, IT-spending, survey

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

Eliot Spitzer's software nightmare

New York State's governor, Eliot Spitzer, got caught in a prostitution probe largely because of financial reporting rules emphasized in the post 9/11 era. As described by Larry Dignan: [W]hat really snared Spitzer was a money laundering investigation that was flagged ...

Tags: Software, Bank, Financial, Business, Money, Eliot Spitzer, New York State, Launderer, Malefactor, Financial Services, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-11

How an information system helped nail Eliot Spitzer and a prostitution ring

Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's prostitute scandal is all the big news here in New York, but the lesser known tale is how an information system--the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network--played a role in his downfall. On the surface, Spitzer's downfall is a New York...

Tags: Bank, Information System, Transaction, Financial, FBI, Data, Institution, Internal Revenue Service, Technology, Eliot Spitzer, Wall Street, FinCEN, CTR, Federal Government, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Facebook taps Google exec Sheryl Sandberg as COO

Updated: Facebook has hired Google executive Sheryl Sandberg as chief operating officer. In a statement, Facebook said that Sandberg will start March 24. She will be responsible "for helping Facebook scale its operations and expand its presence globally." Sandberg will report to Zuckerberg and manage "sales, marketing,...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Zuckerberg, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-04

TippingPoint tips balance in withdrawal of CFIUS application

I met Mike Rothman last night for drinks. He was on a once in a lifetime pass through Southfield, Michigan. I found myself acting like many people do in the presence of a knowledgeable industry analyst. I asked questions. One of them was: "What about this 3Com mess?"...

Tags: Bain, 3Com Corp., TippingPoint Technologies, Government, Ethernet, Vertical Industries, Food & Beverage, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Richard Stiennon

Blog posts 2008-02-22

Fed slashes interest rates by half point

Fed slashes interest rates by half pointAfter some 20 increases in the last few years...They are gonna have to do more than that.One day they will learn to leave it the hell alone instead of upping them to stop inflation. That does NOT work and only sends us into...

Tags: Currency & Foreign exchange, Financial services, housing market, Federal Reserve Board, inflation, interest rate

Discussion threads 2008-01-30

Feds reach out to IBM retirees

If you ran the government and had trouble recruiting young computer department grads to come work for the government, what would you do? Well, you could do worse than offering a second career to IBM retirees. That's the latest initiative launched by the Partnership for Public Service, IBM and the...

Tags: Survey, IBM Corp., Government, Vertical Industries, Marketing Research, Professional Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Career, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-01-20