The role of the finance function in the consumer products sector is changing. What was once considered a support service is now becoming a business partner. This podcast explores nuances of that shift and delves into other findings of a new Deloitte point of view, Finance transformation in consumer products: It's a whole new world. It's the first of several points of view from the Consumer Business & Transportation's Global Center of Excellence program, which was created to help executives in the global consumer industries address their highest-priority challenges.

László Halpern of the Institute of Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences talks to Viv Davies about a forthcoming report on the impact of the crisis on European business. The report finds considerable heterogeneity across countries and firms - for example, exporters contracted more than non-exporters, while importers suffered less of a decline - and highlights the policy trade-off between the benefits of export-oriented strategies versus outsourcing.

Nassim Taleb is a literary essayist, hedge fund manager, derivatives trader and professor of risk engineering at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University. But he is best known these days as the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. During a recent visit to Wharton as part of The Goldstone Forum, he spoke with Wharton finance professor Richard Herring -- who taught Taleb when he was a Wharton MBA student -- about events in the Middle East, the oil supply, investing in options, the U.S. economy, the dollar, health care and of course, black swans.

M&A activity in the telecommunications industry has finally resumed after a long slump. Which valuation issues are topping the agenda for M&A and finance departments? Find out here and use our insights for your own tactical strategies.

This year's hot market for private-equity firms and hedge-fund managers.

The economic downturn forced many financial institutions to face serious questions about their debt portfolios. While tackling significant loan challenges, some of these institutions have also had to deal with the added pressures of new industry regulations and investor expectations.

In this episode, Karl Debenham shares his views on the benefits and implications of the convergence of GAAP and IFRS.

¿Coste o Gasto? tiene el objetivo principal de aclarar dichos concepto, coste y gasto, en una empresa. La documentación se basa en un árbol de decisión que intenta estructurar el proceso de clasificación de los elementos.

This is another official update to the original "Shift Happens" video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist.

En esta nota técnica se desarrollan dos de los conceptos contables más importantes debido al efecto que pueden tener directamente sobre la cuenta de pérdidas y ganancias de las empresas. Se trata de, en el caso de los activos, la cuantificación de su deterioro y, en el caso de los pasivos, las provisiones.

¿Recuerdan la canción de Barrio Sésamo, It’s Not Easy Being Green? Bueno, es cierto. Dado que las inversiones verdes se pueden hacer a través de varias dimensiones básicas de negocio - empresa de productos y servicios, mano de obra y el lugar de trabajo y la cadena de suministro - puede ser difícil para obtener un identificador en lo que es a menudo una mezcla confusa de proyectos, objetivos, valores y promesas.

Un webcast para compañías que actualmente usan IFRS

La estabilidad del roadmap del  US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC's) International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) es un signo claro de la innegable convergencia en el área de los estándares financieros internacionales. Una vez que los IFRS emergen como los estándares globales, en los próximos años veremos un complejo proceso relativo a a su desarrollo y evolución. Esto ocurre en un momento en el que algunos de los hilos más importantes para la convergencia del proyecto están bajo una intensiva revisión y discusión en ambos lados del atlántico.