C-Suite

The disparity between CEO and chief financial officers salaries continues to widen, as middle-market CFOs earn an average of $927,743, approximately 40 percent of CEO pay (at $2,338,874), an analysis of 600 public companies by BDO USA LLP revealed.

Top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi told a group of female business owners in Denver Tuesday that she wanted to listen, not talk, about problems in the economy. She got an earful.

Procter & Gamble Co. CEO Bob McDonald's pay jumped to $16.2 million in his second year at the helm of the world's largest consumer products maker.

Chief financial officers should be directly involved in their companies' sustainability programs as investors, customers and other stakeholders see a strong link between sustainability and financial performance, according to a new report from Ernst & Young LLP.

While 60 percent of corporate executives say their companies have a crisis plan in place, only 29 percent are very confident their organization would respond effectively during a crisis, and 56 percent say they are somewhat confident, according to a new survey by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittmans crisis management team...

Sometimes I wonder if CFOs and HR Directors talk with each other. Occasionally I run into a CFO who is implementing a tax strategy using employee benefits, and he or she is clueless as to whether the benefits are actually valued by the employee.

More than half of privately held companies offered raises to their chief financial officers, and those CFOs make 45 percent less than CFOs of public companies, according to a new CFO compensation survey report by MyCFOnetwork.

Many U.S. public corporations experienced relatively little immediate impact from the first say-on-pay proxy season; however, most companies are either planning or considering changes to their executive pay-setting process and overall preparations for 2012’s proxy season, according to a new survey by Towers Watson.