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Periodontal disease is prevalent in dogs in the UK, and has many negative consequences for the health and welfare of the affected individual. Despite techniques and products being available for owners to maintain good oral health, compliance is low. This study used a questionnaire to investigate dog owners’ awareness and use of dental homecare, and the influence of veterinary professionals, to establish if further educational intervention is required. Quantitative and qualitative analysis revealed a lack of knowledge and performance of dental homecare, suggesting a need for veterinary professionals to provide education for owners on this topic.

Since the cost of keeping employees in the pink is making some employers see red, they might want to take two aspirin and consider joining a health care coalition in [...]

Educational Testing Service is clearly a company accustomed to measuring achievement. But how did it fare in its first attempt at benchmarking its own performance? Benchmarking helps companies: a) Understand [...]

Phil Livingston, FEI's incoming president and CEO, is working out a game plan. Think fast. Take action. And keep your eyes on the goalpost. Whether he's playing football, taking a [...]

Once you've got good people on board, what do you have to do to make them stay? During a merger, Bruce Abbott, senior vice president at Bank of America, tried [...]

Members of Veterinary Humanities UKargue that contextualised care should be considered as foundational to morally and economically sustainable veterinary practice in today's changing world.

FEI enters the 21st century with new-fangled tools, old-fashioned values and dedicated leadership On July 1, 1999, both Financial Executives Institute and Financial Executives Institute Canada handed over the chairman's [...]

Enabling computer networks to triangulate the euro was the 800-pound information technology gorilla that sat on the 1998 calendars of many organizations. And the millennium bug is still crawling across [...]

As more corporations go global, they seek efficient ways to improve employee morale and unity. One option is global share plans - stock compensation a parent company offers to a [...]

Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is widely recognized as an effective approach to understand and address health inequities. Opportunities for public health practitioners and researchers to engage jointly with community partners in intensive colearning processes can build capacity for CBPR. Using active learning approaches that engage diverse partners can enhance partnership development, competence, and equity. Examination of such pedagogical approaches can strengthen understanding of their contributions to the effectiveness of CBPR capacity-building programs. This article describes a weeklong intensive course carried out by the Detroit Urban Research Center as the foundation for a yearlong training program to build the capacity of community-academic partnership teams to engage in CBPR in their own communities. The in-person CBPR course was developed and implemented by expert academic and community instructors and used an experiential action learning model that integrated CBPR principles and processes. We describe the course content and application of our collaborative, experiential action learning model to course design; present results from participant evaluation of course effectiveness, CBPR competence, and equitable partnership development; and examine the contributions of the pedagogical approach to outcomes central to successful CBPR. The participatory, formative course evaluation used multiple methods that included closed- and open-ended questionnaires to assess instructional effectiveness, participant competence on 12 core components of CBPR, and course impact on partner relationships. Evaluation findings suggest that an experiential action learning approach with attention to colearning, collaboration among diverse instructors and participants, and an environment that fosters and models equitable and trusting relationships can be effective in building CBPR capacity.

I Village: six CFOs in five years. Delta Air Lines: four in four years. Hastings Entertainment: four in two years. Why all the churn atop corporate finance departments? In Delta's [...]

ENGINEERING AND MANAGING A CORPORATE TURNAROUND CAN BE PAINFUL, PERSONALLY AND PROFESSIONALLY. WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW TO AVOID NEEDING ONE? AND IF YOUR COMPANY REQUIRES A TURNAROUND, HOW CAN YOU [...]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * TO INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF BECOMING A CFO, you need a broad range of skills beyond knowing the ABCs of accounting. You must be a business strategist, [...]

Pierre Matuszewski, an investment banker, believes that 'if you've got an objective, don't let it go.' Pierre Matuszewski, incoming chairman of FEI Canada, is a man at home in a [...]

'I'm overwhelmed right now, leaving tomorrow for Europe, have no coping mechanisms and no time for an interview.' So wrote a financial executive in response to an e-mailed request to [...]

Is it possible for CFOs to jump industries -- to go from widget manufacturing finance, say, to movie studio finance? It is if you're Chuck Martin, who's worked in publishing, [...]

Three mergers and three new corporate identities in three years would leave any CFO shell-shocked. But Chuck Kane of Ardent is still, well, ardent. huck Kane was CFO of VMARK [...]

'It stopped being fun.' Those four little words are the main reason Bill Murray left his job as vice president of operations of a $230-million roll-up food business eight months [...]

An IPO in which the dominant shareholder is the company's own employee stock option plan is a rarity. But Sawtek's CFO is bullish on the concept. Ray Link had had [...]

Pay attention to some differences between investors in the U.S. and Europe, and you can put on a jolly good road show. As markets globalize and technology compresses time and [...]

It's said that a duck's quack doesn't echo; no one knows why. But quack something about someone you work with, and you may as well have fired the shot heard [...]

The Boston Celtics' Joe DiLorenzo is one team member you might not have heard about. But he knows sports finance from the bottom up and inside out. Joe DiLorenzo has [...]

More and more hiring matches are being made in cyberspace heaven. And, despite disbelief from many quarters that those hires include CFOs, they do. In fact, Exec-U-Net, an Internet-based executive [...]

ABSTRACTRecently updated guidance on communication and consent from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) suggests that consent should be a process, held in advance of the day of surgery if possible, obtained by an appropriate member of staff, and should involve the discussion of reasonable treatment options. Using an elective neutering scenario, this article discusses what ‘good practice’ in informed consent looks like and makes recommendations for improving consent protocols in practice. These recommendations incorporate time allocation and timing of consent discussions, who should obtain consent, the content of the discussion, and what happens on the day of surgery.

As the debate and handwringing over offshore outsourcing escalates, the fundamental question remains: What jobs are going to be left in the U.S. as big corporations continue shipping jobs to [...]

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to previous articles including one on an essay regarding race published in the September 29, 1967 issue, one on the automobiles owned by elite celebrities in Hollywood in Los Angeles, California published in the September 29, 1967 issue, and one regarding hunting surpluses published in the September 29, 1967 issue.

The phone is ringing, a report is due and your child's soccer championship is in an hour. How can you go? How can you not. Matt Peiffer has a 7-year-old [...]

Inside many financial executives lurks an independent spirit that yearns to hack off the corporate shackles, lease some office space and emerge, reborn, as Entrepreneurman (or -woman). But does the [...]

It isn't always easy to be the Jiminy Cricket-like conscience of a CEO who may make you feel more like Pinocchio. 'Listen, you big, pompous blowhard,' we've all yelled into [...]

How many accountants does it take to sell a lightbulb? As CFO, that's something you need to know. Increasingly, CFOs are being asked not only to row, row, row the [...]

What should be the relationship between a company's CFO and its board of directors? And how can they best work together? Despite a new survey from executive search consultants Russell [...]

You can do well by doing good. Just be prepared to work hard. Just because an organization is a non-profit doesn't mean working there is a no-brainer. Still, some financial [...]

It isn't hard to master the soft skills that will make you a better leader. The owner of a high-powered interior design business, meeting with a client and his then-CFO, [...]

What's it like to live and work hundreds, even thousands, of miles from your family and friends? For many financial executives, home is where the heart - and their weekend [...]

Just what does it take to land a financial executive's job if you're passed the 50-year mark? 'Fifty isn't old if you're a tree,' Proclaims the t-shirt one financial executive [...]

In this article, we give an overview of different approaches to learning, and explain what is meant by a reflective approach to continuing professional development (CPD). We then suggest ways in which a reflective approach can be used to maximise the benefit and enjoyment of learning opportunities.

The article talks about craniosacral therapy (CST), a specialized branch of osteopathy, a drug-free, non-invasive manual medicine that focuses on total body health. Early cranial osteopaths believed that newborn heads have moveable joints and are unlike the head-as-coconut model, that they developed techniques on treating a newborn's craniosacral system, and that they discovered that cranial bones have a palpable movement or rhythm called the craniosacral rhythm or cranial rhythmic impulse.

Here's a heads-up for CFOs: Human resource practitioners are being encouraged to broaden their sphere of influence, citing expansion of the CFO role as their inspiration, according to panelists at [...]