IAFM Articles

Will Financial Managers be Innovators or Strangulators? (November 2008) | Financial Management
by Dr. E. Ted Prince

Is this title a possible description of what the past few years have brought and what will happen in the future? Financial managers need to make sure that they and regulators do not fall victim to the oldest trick in the book – excess in one direction followed by an equal and opposite excess, in the other. ...[ Read More ]

Making Sense of Market Liquidity – Hip Word and Culprit of our Time (October 2008) | Financial Management
by Dr. Gordian Gaeta

Anyone reading the financial press these days comes across the word ‘liquidity’ alone or in combination, e.g., liquidity gap, liquidity risk, liquidity injection etc more often than the previous favorite expression ‘sub prime’ and its combinations. As such, liquidity has easily become the most misused economic term of recent months. Liquidity seems to be the cause, the solution, the destination, the journey and the process to address the current financial upheaval. ...[ Read More ]

Alternative Leadership – The Need for a Grand Unified Theory (August 2008) | Financial Management
by Dr. E. Ted Prince

Current leadership theories are outdated; new disciplines and disruptive changes call for a Grand Unified Leadership Theory. ...[ Read More ]

Should Financial Managers go Green? (July 2008) | Financial Management
by Dr. E. Ted Prince

Traditionally being green has been seen as increasing costs. The stereotypical financial manager has seen environmentalism and carbon credits as increasing costs over the longer-term and as reducing margins. How should financial managers address these issues now in an age of ultra-high energy costs, new programs for carbon credits and of the triple bottom line? ...[ Read More ]

The Oil Crisis and the Role of Financial Managers (June 2008) | Financial Management
by Dr. E. Ted Prince

Crises the size and extent of the current oil crisis do not occur often. When they do they disrupt existing business models of many if not most companies, as is happening now. These changes will result in many companies failing. Many will founder. Some will figure out how to address the crisis because they have seen it as an opportunity.  ...[ Read More ]