Tuesday, October 11, 2005

No Time for Strategy?


Many finance staff find they're too caught up with commonplace chores to think about the bigger picture, at least for the moment.

When Peter Barker was appointed Asia Pacific CFO for Cisco Systems back in January this year, he knew his first year was going to be a grind. Thanks to the rigors of complying with America's tough new Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox) corporate governance laws, Barker's first nine months in office have largely been a marathon effort of documenting internal controls and standardizing company processes.

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