One very noteworthy point made in our Dallas seminar “How to Structure and Negotiate Transactions with Chinese Companies” hosted by Kane, Russell, Coleman, and Logan was Chinese investors will be pouring more money into U.S. companies over the next five years. This begs the question – are you prepared to work for a Chinese backed fund?  If the answer is no or this scares you a bit then I suggest you study up on the traditions of how Chinese conduct business. Ms. Viking Tao, Director at KRCL, kept referring to the way Chinese conduct business as “not better or worse – just different.”  We know relationships are important and...

by Ben Glazer, I-BN The legacy computer system at your small-to mid-sized business is old. Web-based computing and the Cloud are new. Will the old and the new make nice together? For many small businesses considering a move to cloud computing, the question is a paradox that has stymied the transition.  It’s also a myth begging debunking. As contradictory as it may seem, older  computers are ready-made for 21st Century computing solutions. Cloud-based computing has taken its place as the hosted delivery model for many key business applications (IaaS – Infrastructure-as-a-Service), from accounting and payroll software via such solutions as Sage MAS 90 and SAP Business One as well as the web native...

On August 8th, Alix Stuart with CFO.com talked about MyCFOnetwork’s most recent executive compensation survey.  She titled the article “The Price of Being a Private-Company CFO – Why do CFOs at private companies make less money than those at public companies?”  We would like to thank Alix for her interest in MyCFOnetwork and our membership. The Price of Being a Private-Company CFO Why do CFOs at private companies make less money than those at public companies? Being a CFO for a private company looks like a pretty good gig these days, what with the agonizing gyrations of the public markets. But those jobs seem to come at the price...