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        Robert Kugel's Analyst Perspectives

        I have written before about enterprise risk management, which is an essential piece of both performance management and corporate governance. Every aspect of business entails risk. Everyone who makes a business decision is – whether consciously or not – making trade-offs between risk and reward. Assessing risk is tricky in business because it means different things to different people depending on where they work and their specific role in an organization. From a broad view, risk management...

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        Topics: Governance, GRC, Office of Finance, Operational Performance Management (OPM), Business Performance Management (BPM), CFO, compliance, Financial Performance Management (FPM)

        I recently commented on why I believe companies must manage taxes more intelligently. One dimension of this is optimizing tax risk exposure. Most corporate tax codes are notoriously complex and at times ambiguous, leaving room for companies to interpret their application. These interpretations fall on a scale of “conservative” to “aggressive,” in which companies weigh the risk of penalties and other negative outcomes against that of paying more taxes than necessary. It strikes me that few of...

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        Topics: Tax, Business Performance Management (BPM), CFO, Financial Performance Management (FPM), Financial Performance Management
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