February 2003
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 3m
English
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Notes
Introduction
1
Price Waterhouse Financial and Cost Management Team, CFO: Architect of the Corporation’s Future (New York: Wiley, 1997), 84.
2
Marshall Loeb, “Jack Welch Lets Fly On Budgets, Bonuses, and Buddy Boards,” Fortune, 29 May 1995, 73.
3
Robert Simons, Levers of Control (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995), 83.
Chapter One
1
Peter Drucker, “Planning for Uncertainty,” The Wall Street Journal, 22 July 1992.
2
Russ Banham, “Revolution in Planning,” CFO, August 1999, <http://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,1237|M|303,00.htm>, (accessed 11 March 2001).
3
Ram Charan and Geoffrey Colvin, “Why CEO’s Fail,” Fortune, 21 June 1999, 31–40.
4
Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., “Beyond Budgets,” Business Europe 40, no. 9 (2000), quoted in ...
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