Risk Management From the CFO Perspective - Business Review USA

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Risk Management has long been recognised as a priority for CFOs. With the fluid nature of risk it can't be easily addressed at quarterly or monthly meetings, or incorporated into routine compliance programmes. It is necessary to integrate risk management into daily decision-making, strategy-setting and performance management.

Earlier this month Nick Araco, President of CFO Alliance, caught up with Outsource Magazine to discuss the trends within finance, the current economic outlook and the challenges CFOs are facing. When asked about the approach of CFOs to risk management Nick replied: "There is heavy emphasis on managing risks in areas around the supply chain of vendor and customer. They are looking at technologies and data capture processes that provide them with an accurate and on-going snapshot that tie directly to both top line and bottom line performance. We are seeing an increased interest in technologies that can capture and manage human capital and/or employee risk areas. And we are also seeing interest in technologies around enterprise risk with regards to cyber security and social media." The interview was conducted ahead of the CFO Exchange and the full article can be accessed online at http://www.bit.ly/OyhdKM

Risk management is, however, only one of the many challenges faced by CFOs. A 2012 research study, conducted by the CFO Exchange in conjunction with Finance IQ, indicated that 65% of CFOs surveyed are concerned about their current cash management strategy and are looking for ways to improve this in 2012 and 2013. The majority of respondents also recognised financial reporting and compliance as key investment priorities for 2012 and 2013. The CFO Exchange have published the research results in a complimentary report available at http://www.bit.ly/SqKlpK?

At the 3^rd CFO Exchange, taking place in Switzerland, 11^th - 13^thNovember 2012, 50 CFOs will gather to discuss issues such as risk management, talent management ?strategies and challenges including how sustainability and non-financial reporting can help CFOs to manage costs and reputation more effectively. The CFO Exchange has established itself as a leading platform for CFOs from some of the world's leading corporations to meet and discuss new and innovative ways to drive their business forward. To find out more visit: http://www.cfoexchange.co.uk/PR

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Putin says Russian nuclear cuts to hinge on U.S. missile shield

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow is open to the idea of new nuclear arms cuts on a reciprocal basis and if Washington addresses its concerns about a U.S.-led missile defence system in Europe, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday.

Putin said preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction was "a key issue on the world agenda" and said Russian compliance with the 2010 New START treaty, which cut U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, was proof of Moscow's commitment to disarmament.

"Russia is open to new joint initiatives in this area," Putin said, in a written address sent to a meeting of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War being held in Hiroshima, Japan.

"At the same time, their realization is clearly possible only on a fair mutual basis and if all factors affecting international security and strategic stability are taken into account," he said.

Those factors included what he called "the unilateral and totally unlimited deployment of a global U.S. missile defence system" as well as the possibility of the deployment of weapons in space and a lack of parity in conventional weapons in Europe.

U.S. plans for a missile defence shield in Europe, which Washington has already begun to deploy, have been a major irritant to U.S.-Russia relations despite President Barack Obama's decision to scale the original plans back.

Washington says the shield is meant to counter a potential threat from Iran and will pose no risk to Russia.

But Moscow says the system's interceptors will be able to destroy Russian warheads in flight by about 2018, upsetting the post-Cold War balance of power and weakening Russia's nuclear arsenal.

In a foreign policy decree issued on May 7, the day his inauguration ceremony for a six-year presidential term took place, Putin reiterated Moscow's demands for firm U.S. guarantees that the shield is not directed against Russia.

Four days earlier, the chief-of-staff of Russia's armed forces said Moscow could carry out pre-emptive strikes on future missile defence installations in Europe to protect its security.

The European system will include interceptor missile installations in Poland and Romania and a radar station in Turkey as well as interceptors and radars on ships based in the Mediterranean Sea.

(Reporting By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya; Editing by Steve Gutterman and Andrew Osborn)

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Paul Ryan Weighs In On Chick-Fil-A's 'Free Speech Rights'

Paul Ryan waded into the Chick-fil-A controversy when he told a reporter that he associates the fast food chain with "free speech."

On Thursday, a reporter from Virginia-based CNN affiliate WDBJ, upon finding out that he would only have five minutes with the Republican vice presidential candidate, decided to engage Ryan in a round of word association.

"Chick fil-A," Orlando Salinas, the WDBJ reporter, offered.

"Good chicken," Ryan said. "Free people exercising their free speech rights."

Chick-fil-A sparked controversy last month when company president Dan Cathy said that he and his company support "the biblical definition of the family unit" when asked about the issue of same-sex marriage.

Cathy's remarks were met with backlash, as many LGBT activists called on supporters of gay marriage to boycott the chicken chain. Protesters have organized "kiss-ins" at Chick-fil-A locations across the country.

Meanwhile, conservatives jumped to defend the chain's right to condemn same-sex marriage. Mike Huckabee organized a Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day earlier this month, which was endorsed by a number of notable right-wing figures including Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and Michele Bachmann.

Romney, however, has distanced himself from the controversy, declaring that the Chick-fil-A debate was not "part of my campaign." While he has avoided directly addressing his stance on the chain, his campaign may have made a quiet showing of support. Politico reported earlier this week that the Romney campaign spent $500 in "meeting expenses" at the chain last month, just days before Huckabee's appreciation day.

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Farmers grappling with Irene even a year later

Doug Turner stands in a sand-covered field at his farm on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 in Waitsfield, Vt. Devastating floods wrought by Hurricane Irene a year ago inundated farm fields in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, wiping out a season's worth of work and setting up fears that the land would be unworkable this year. Since then, a warm spring followed by cold snaps then a blazing, dry summer have added to grower's woes.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Doug Turner stands in a sand-covered field at his farm on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 in Waitsfield, Vt. Devastating floods wrought by Hurricane Irene a year ago inundated farm fields in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, wiping out a season's worth of work and setting up fears that the land would be unworkable this year. Since then, a warm spring followed by cold snaps then a blazing, dry summer have added to grower's woes.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

FILE-In this Aug. 30, 2011, file photo, farmer's fields are flooded from Tropical Storm Irene in this aerial view on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011 in Rutland, Vt. A year after Hurricane Irene tore through farms from North Carolina to Vermont, some farmers are still grappling with the aftermath. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

In this March 20, 2012, file photo, silt from Tropical Storm Irene covers a farmers' field Tuesday, March 20, 2012 in Waitsfield, Vt. A year after Hurricane Irene tore through farms from North Carolina to Vermont, some farmers are still grappling with the aftermath. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

Doug Turner stands along the rebuilt river bank of the Mad River at his farm on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012 in Waitsfield, Vt. Devastating floods wrought by Hurricane Irene a year ago inundated farm fields in New York, Pennsylvania and Vermont, wiping out a season's worth of work and setting up fears that the land would be unworkable this year. Since then, a warm spring followed by cold snaps then a blazing, dry summer have added to grower's woes.(AP Photo/Toby Talbot)

WAITSFIELD, Vt. (AP) ? A year after Hurricane Irene swept away topsoil and crops and replaced them with rocks and contaminants, farmers from North Carolina to Vermont are rebounding but still grappling with the aftermath ? on top of an early spring followed by cold snaps, a dry summer and an anticipated spike in feed costs caused by the Midwestern drought.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture paid farmers $78.6 million for insurance claims covering about 225,000 acres of Irene-damaged farmland in nine Northeastern states through its Risk Management Agency. Not all farmers buy crop insurance, so the figure isn't a complete measure of the devastation.

More than half the damaged land was in New York, where two crop-growing regions ? the Hudson and Schoharie valleys ? were hit especially hard. Irene's raging waters rearranged the landscape, onto farm fields in many places, and floodwaters carrying spilled fuel and refuse eventually settled into the ground.

The floodwaters last Aug. 28 swept away 128 bales of dairy farmer Doug Turner's hay to feed his 45 cows in Waitsfield and contaminated a third of his corn crop. He had to mow it down after it turned brown and moldy, then buy hay, and is still catching up from the feed loss.

"You can plow and scrape and bucket as much sand as you want; there's still an effect on the plant life. And there will be until I actually plow those fields under and turn up soil again, to kind of reincorporate it," Turner said.

But his biggest concern is how he will finish rebuilding the banks of the Mad River, which raged last August, carrying away the rocks and trees that stabilized the banks and damaged 30 acres of his land, he said.

He has had about half the riverbank work done ? but he said he needs $50,000 to $70,000 to fix the remainder. He has already received more than $50,000 in help from various Vermont groups that raised money to help farmers, and he plans to apply for more because he can't afford to make payments on a loan.

"I'm worried about that next flood that comes a foot over the top of the bank," he said. "That's the one that's going to hurt me, and it's going to hurt me severely."

He knows of one farm in his area that sold its herd after the storm damage and a drop in milk prices this winter, he said.

Sandie Prokop, of Crossbrook Farm in New York's Schoharie Valley, lost 230 acres of feed corn and soybeans and 80 acres of hay, along with 14 acres of land for crops that became filled with rocks, some the size of dining room tables.

"We're back. It's still tremendous cash flow pressure," he said. "We had no feed inventory to carry over ? feed was tight."

The drought has ravaged corn crops in parts of the Midwest, driving up the price of grain feed.

In Pinetops, N.C., Gwen and Bert Pitt's farm took a hit from winds that battered their 120 acres of tobacco just at the start of the harvest. There was nothing for them to do but plow it under and wait out the process of getting some money back through their federal crop insurance.

But that wasn't until March, past the ideal time in late February for starting tobacco seeds in greenhouses.

"We went and put it in because we had people who believed in us," Gwen Pitt said of the fertilizer and seed companies willing to help before the insurance money came in.

This, too, has been a tough year, she said. June windstorms tumbled the tobacco plants, requiring a crew to hand-pick leaves where the harvester wouldn't work amid the tangle.

The Pitts are also recovering from heavy damage to their cotton and soybean crops from Irene, both stunted by the heavy rains.

"It's been a challenging couple of years," Gwen Pitt said. "Mother Nature has the last word."

Still, many farmers are optimistic about this fall's harvest.

"I'm sure a lot of farmers got left very shortchanged for last year, but because of their resilience they started over," said Paul Hlubik, state executive director of the Farm Service Agency in New Jersey, where some growers had to scout damage in row boats, especially after the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee hit shortly after Irene.

"We started out as a tough year with the cold spring and excessive warmth, but you know the rains have been timely lately with things."

Vegetable farmers Ryan Wood Beauchamp and Kara Fitzgerald, both 27, are among those trying to start over ? after Irene scoured 6 acres of their 10-acre Evening Song Farm in Shrewsbury, Vt., down to the bedrock.

They are now growing 4 acres of vegetables on land they're renting from a friend and intend to buy.

"It's literally what we put all of our energy into leading up to that point," Fitzgerald said. "And it's pretty overwhelming to violently lose the thing that you put all your energy into."

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Walsh reported from Albany, N.Y. Associated Press reporter Michael Hill in Albany contributed to this report.

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Should I try Google Voice?

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1. I am trying to decide if Google Voice is for me. I don't use a ton of minutes each month. Mostly free calls to family and friends. I always use less than 250 texts a month (but if it were free I might text more) . So is Google Voice something I should consider? Any advice on how I could utilize Google Voice? Would there be any harm in signing up? Any advice is welcome.

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Vote for the community in the Dragon Slayer awards at Dragon*Con

World of Warcraft has a large presence in the online gaming community, and that presence is you guys, the people playing the game, reading about it and discussing it. Now, our friend Zarhym the floating, burning skull reminds us all that we can vote for WoW in the Dragon Slayer awards. You can even vote for yourselves in the Most Passionate Fan Base category.

As someone who writes about this game and has spent years interacting with you, I think you guys definitely count as passionate. You should totally vote for yourselves. Also, vote for Zarhym for Community Manager of the Year, since he asked nicely and he reminds me of Morte from Planescape: Torment.

Community spirit isn't something WoW players lack, in my opinion. With the Dragon Slayer awards being aimed directly at community, here's a chance to show it off. The awards will be presented Sept. 2 at this year's Dragon*Con, which runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 3.

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