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Meet the NASA Engineer Who Became an Astronaut—After Being Rejected 14 Times
Clayton Anderson, "the ordinary spaceman," talks his long journey to the ISS, the view from 250 miles above the Earth, and the extraordinary things on the horizon for space travel.
By John Wenz
Clayton Anderson spent his first 15 years at NASA designing spacecraft. He spent his last 15 flying them. But somewhere in between there, Anderson spent time getting rejection after rejection for the astronaut program –15 in all, each inching closer and closer to the finish line before he was finally selected in 1998. In his book, The Ordinary Spaceman, he talks about his journey from small-town Nebraska to floating 250 miles above the Earth. He was kind enough to give us a few minutes on the phone to talk about this experiences. You can read an excerpt of his book here.
Popular Mechanics: After so many years of trying to get into the astronaut program, what was it like when you finally got up on the shuttle and experienced the micro-gravity for the first time?
Clayton Anderson: I don't know honestly if I thought back to the 15 tries to apply. I think that my 15 attempts to apply, and the trials and tribulations associated with that, were more reflected when I first got selected.
I talk about it in my book, how I went to Ellington Field as a baby astronaut. I went up into a room where a gentleman handed me my first blue flight suit and it already had my name tag on it. He asked me to try it on, and as I stood in front of that mirror, that's when it really dawned on me: "Holy cow, I've done it. I've made it."
When I first flew into space and experienced micro-gravity, it was more that I survived the training, because it was so long and arduous and there was so much time in Russia away from my family. That was kind of a relief, a breath of fresh air. I did all that and now it's starting to pay dividends.
PM: Is there something that stands out as one of your favorite moments in space?
CA: There were a lot. Something happened almost every day that's memorable, and there were so many of them that I forget them until someone reminds me and it comes back. One of the most fun things was to call people that I knew on Earth through the telephone system. I had a list of phone numbers in my crew notebook. Every day when I had some free time, I would go through that mini phone book and I would see whose name I had not checked off.
"I really enjoyed surprising people by calling them from outer space, because they kind of freak out."
I would dial them up and I'd get answering machines. It was always fun to record a nice lengthy message of greetings from the International Space Station, because people could then listen to them and play them back over and over and over again. I really enjoyed surprising people by calling them from outer space, because they kind of freak out. They can't believe that they're getting a call from the space station, 250 miles up.
PM: Is there something that spurred your first interest in becoming an astronaut?
CA: Absolutely. When I was nine years old, in 1968, my mother and father awakened my brother and sister and I and placed us in front of a black-and-white TV in Ashland, Nebraska around midnight on Christmas Eve, and we watched the Apollo 8 astronauts go behind the moon for the very first time in human history. That was my earliest recollection. My thought was, "This is cool. I want to do that."
PM: Prior to your actual candidate training, you worked at NASA, just not in the capacity of an astronaut. What were some of the things you worked at as a flight engineer?
CA: When I started at NASA in Houston back in 1981, there was no space station. It was on the drawing board, so as a young engineer I got to work on how the shuttle would rendezvous and dock and depart and fly around various space station configurations. To be able to work on the numerous designs that funneled down to the International Space Station, and then go fly on one of those shuttles and live on that station, it was kind of a great full circle opportunity for me. Here's this young kid who dreamed of just working on space stuff and then I got to work and live in it.
PM: Were there things on the ISS that you looked around and recognized, "I designed something very, very similar to that?"
CA: As an astronaut, one of my early assignments before I was assigned to fly in space was working with a group to come up with power strips. Just like under your desk you have a power strip that gives you five or six more places to plug your stuff into, we needed those on the International Space Station. The difficulty was we had to convert 120 volts of direct electrical current into something that could plug in a computer or a camera battery charger.
We worked on these power strips, so when I eventually got into space I could fly around and touch the very things that I helped work on on the ground. It was fun was to take photos of me with those pieces of equipment and then send them to the engineers that helped design them.
PM: What were your experiences with spacewalks and actually going out into the environment of space?
CA: I performed six spacewalks over my career as an astronaut, totaling about 40 hours. To me, doing a spacewalk is the ultimate activity for an astronaut. Some commanders would argue that flying the space shuttle is much cooler, but for a non-military civilian like me, to be able to get into that suit, pass through the air lock, go out the hatch, and start to crawl around on the outside of the International Space Station was the ultimate.
"As I hung on the front of the Space Station flying backwards, I was able to see the moon rise."
You throw in the ability to hold on with two fingers and turn your body and look at the Earth rolling by at five miles a second, or 17,500 miles per hour—it's just an incredible vista to be a part of. I remember my very first spacewalk, as I hung on the front of the Space Station flying backwards, I was able to see the moon rise. That was one of the most breathtaking things that I had ever seen in outer space.
PM: What do you see as some possibilities that commercial space flight is opening up at NASA?
CA: We're at an interesting time in space flight. The United States budget is a very difficult thing to navigate. NASA and her funding are dropping precipitously from what they were back in the heydays of Apollo. Given all that, we have to make the analogy that Orville and Wilbur stood on the beach at Kitty Hawk having watched their Wright Flyer fly 122 feet the very first time they flew. They had no idea that eventually there would be B-1 bombers and 787s and luxury liners flying people all around the world.
We're kind of at that same point, I think, in commercial space flight. The ideas exist, it's just creating the way for tourists or normal people to be able to go into space and visit a hotel or a space station. We have to be patient. It looks to me like the money is still going to come in very slowly, but we do have some wonderful entrepreneurs out there who are trying to stimulate the commercial side of space flight.
You have your SpaceX folks, your Boeing folks, your Blue Origin folks, your Sierra Nevada folks, Bigelow Aerospace, all working to potentially give everyone the opportunity to fly in space one day by purchasing a ticket. I think the future is hopeful. I would like the pace to be faster, of course, but the pace is dictated by technology development and money, so we'll just have to wait to see how all that pans out. I would like to think that we're in the same boat that Orville and Wilbur were back in 1903.
PM: What has you excited about the possibilities for government space flight and non-commercial space flight?
CA: It's important for me that the United States and NASA continue to lead the way. I think we should be the preeminent space-faring nation in the entire world. We have to be careful that we maintain that ability and not let other nations usurp our leadership. I'm hoping NASA continues pound on Congress and tell them why NASA is important for the all humankind. I think that's an easy thing to do, except that NASA is not allowed to advertise.
Guys like me, retired astronauts, current astronauts, we can gather the biggest audience just by virtue of the job that we've done in our careers. I tend to spend most of my time trying to applaud the abilities of NASA and what we're doing, where we're going, and the things that we've accomplished along the way.
For me, it's not the destination so much as the technology development we learn along the way. Whether we go back to the moon or whether we go to Mars or whether we drag an asteroid to a Lagrange point and crawl around on that—all of those are wonderful, viable projects, but they're going to lead to technology development that will eventually come back to benefit all humans on the Earth. That's kind of my job right now, to motivate people to continue to support the space program because on the government side, without public support we're nothing.
PM: What do you think is the key capturing the imaginations of people all over again?
CA: I think going to Mars is the ultimate destination that everybody wants to see us achieve. We should go to the moon first and build a lunar base where a small cadre of people, perhaps a dozen or more, learn to live off the land on a foreign body like the moon, such that we can learn what we need to do when we make that six to nine month journey to Mars. Mars is kind of the cool destination. It's where everybody wants to go, but I see us needing to take some steps closer to our home planet along the way to learn what we need to do.
Unfortunately, every time we discuss sending humans to Mars, we're talking about the 2030s or whatever. If we can keep to that target date, maybe by 2025 we will have the excitement. It's not like when we were heading to the moon and we were given the challenge of going in less than a decade. That's the kind of challenge that catches people's interest, that sparks their imagination, and those are the things that we need to do.
A space station laboratory is a great benefit for everyone on Earth, but in all honesty it's boring. It sails around Earth sixteen times a day and it's dull. We need that exciting thing that captures the imagination of people on Earth. We need that, and we need it soon. Maybe it's commercial trips with ticket buyers who go to a Bigelow inflatable hotel in space. I don't know, but we need it sooner than later I think.
(This interview has been edited and condensed.)
To learn more about Clayton Anderson, you can visit his website, or follow him on Twitter or Facebook. "The Ordinary Spaceman" is available here.
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Capitol Hill Housing and its Capitol Hill Ecodistrict initiative have announced encouraging early results from an innovative pilot program that makes transit passes available at a significantly reduced cost to the nonprofit's affordable housing residents.
The Center for Neighborhood Technology estimates that households in the Puget Sound Region spend about 19 percent of their income on transportation. Living in a central, walkable, transit-rich neighborhood like Capitol Hill can help households save a lot on transportation expenses by driving less or not even owning a car – one of the reasons that Capitol Hill Housing believes it is so important to provide affordable housing in neighborhoods like Capitol Hill. However, for many low income people, the regular cost of using transit is still unaffordable.
We first reported on the initiative in May as the City Council voted on funding for the pilot program. Building off King County Metro's existing ORCA Multifamily Passport program, which allows property owners and managers to purchase pre-loaded, monthly ORCA card transit passes to the residents of their buildings, the Capitol Hill Housing program utilizes City of Seattle funding to cover $38,000 of the cost of providing ORCA cards. Residents who wish to participate in CHH's program pay 50% of the monthly cost, which varies between $10 and $17 depending on the building. "This compares with $117 per month for a standard individual pass or $55 per month for a standard individual low income fare or LIFT pass," CHH's announcement says.
While the 2016 funding was a one-time budgeting decision to launch the pilot, CHH said it is planning a full study of the program for 2017 and hopes to eventually expand the effort to all of Seattle's affordable housing communities. "We hope that by continuing to work with King County Metro, the Seattle Department of Transportation, other affordable housing providers, our residents, and the community at large we can expand this program to eventually serve all affordable housing properties in the city," the announcement reads.
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Wednesday 10th - Friday 12th of January 2018.
Happy New Year 🎆🎇🎉 2018 !
able to relax a bit and is eager to be back at school.
Don't forget we practice the 4 abilities in english.
Speak - write - understand written english - understand spoken english.
7c ; write diary , verb i presens.
Homework ; we start with that next week.
7d ; write diary , verb i presens.
9c ; Write about how you celebrated your New Year , reading comprehension.
9d ; Write about how you celebrated your New Year , reading comprehension.
Idiom of the week ; " A penny for your thoughts " = a way of asking what someone is thinking.


If you are busy asking 'What the heck is Vichyssoise?' it is actually a pompous way to say potato soup.
There is some uncertainty as to whether vichyssoise originally comes from America or France. One of the more recent and trackable variations come from a famous chef who used to cook for the Ritz. He apparently rendered it into the menu of the Ritz Hotel from a memory of eating it as a child at his Mother's and Grandmother's tables.
So now that we have been suitably impressed with the antiquity of good old potato soup. Let me explain myself. Because I have some explaining to do. In my variation of vegan style vichyssoise, I discarded the leeks… Chucked out the stock completely, and replaced those 'elements' with cucumber!
But hold on, I am not a loony: ). I did some RESEARCH and it turns out that other people more qualified than I have done the same. I am not surprised, because this variation of vichyssoise is damn good.
The day I stumbled upon my rebel vichyssoise recipe, it was scorching hot and I was cleaning out the fridge. To my dismay I found that somehow between my mother's garden and the store, I had accumulated about 4 large cucumbers. Now if my companion had been a raw veg crunching girl determined to lose 20 pounds in two weeks, there would have been no problem in consuming them. But I had a troll on my hands to feed. And personally, as much as I like a good bit of cucumber, I could not see myself eating all four.
The solution? This recipe. Or the original prototype. We ate it cold, seeing as there was no way we could face hot soup. Only later did I find out that was the way we were supposed to be having our vichyssoise hehe. Guidance comes in the strangest forms.
Before we get into the recipe let me run you through the steps quickly, just so you can see how quick and easy this soup is!
Firstly, chop up a few potatoes. If you have some leftover potatoes from another meal you can use those, but if not you will need to simmer up a couple. I stick a bay leaf into the water with the potatoes while they are cooking.
Once the potatoes are cooked, remove the bay leaf, chop up a decent sized cucumber. Put it into the pot with some olive oil or some coconut oil, salt, pepper, lemon juice and herbs.
Whizz this up with a stick blender (gosh, I should become an affiliate for some high end blender stick company the amount of times I mention mine) or food processor. And Voilà! Vichyssoise a la concombre. (That means cucumber in french according to Google).
Update: I did it! Rebel's Kitchen now has affiliate links to Amazon! : D If you click on the highlights, it will take you to Amazon's stick blender page. Enjoy!
Chop up the potatoes. I do them pretty fine because then they cook extra fast.
Place in a pot with 1 cup of water and set to simmer.
While you wait for the potatoes you can dice up the cucumber. Cucumber blends very easily, so you can cut big rounds.
Once the potatoes are done turn off the heat and remove the bay leaf.
Add in all the other ingredients; cucumber rounds, garlic, herbs, olive oil or coconut cream, lemon juice and salt and pepper. Just reserve a couple basil leaves for garnish.
Blend the whole lot together. If you wish to have the basil bits visible in the soup, add them into the blending at the end.
Chill, garnish and serve! Remember you can also eat this soup hot, it does not HAVE to be cold.
If you are on a low carb kick, then you can adjust the potato to cucumber ratio. Once when I was making this soup for just myself, no Troll, I did mostly cucumber and it was great! If your eating partner is not interested in a 70% cucumber soup you can do two different batches, one potato heavy and one cucumber heavy.


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A great collection of favorite ideas for muffins and quick bread recipes and our Delicious Dishes Recipe Party!
Yay! I'm all about the breads and muffins and now you can have them ALL with this amazing round up of favorite muffin and quick bread recipes!


Spring brought me lots of changes. I started my blog series with Blogging tips, finished with my therapy (I'll write a proper post about it) and got a new job at Monsoon Accessorize. I'm happy, but with spring comes a little tiredness every year. I am trying to stay as healthy as possible.
When it comes to makeup, I have been very very VERY good girl. I don't spend a lot because I'm saving my money for the endless summer. However, I have brought together some of my favourites that I can't live without those months.
Firstly, non makeup goods. I fell in love with Milk and Honey again and again. Rupi is such an inspiration and a strong woman with clear messages to all of us. I bought her book in the town the other day more expensive than my lunch but never mind – it is a keeper. Also spring is perfect for some light reading. I hate how all magazines are based on advertisements but nevertheless I love some articles with fashion tips etc.
And then it's all about the LIPS! I was in the capital for some days and couldn't get home without a spree in Golden Rose. They have a brand new lip markers line and let me just take a moment to say THANK YOU for those good. I got mine in number 102, which is very light and springy. It lasts literally all day. Drinking, eating, babbling, everything. A must have this spring!
Also my springy love is MAC Lustering. I rarely buy a MAC lipstick, but when I do, I make sure I spend at least 30 minutes trying on all colours. Now I own only two of them, but I use them daily. Really, really good.
Heart is made with Golden rose and line with Mac.
Of course my latest obsession is Zoeva. I couldn't wait for my first two palettes to come. Frankly, the hype is real. Those shades are incredible. I haven't seen anything like this before. Soft, blend really well, shimmery just as I like. Top. I must make another purchase soon 🙂 Which palettes do you recommend? Let me know in the comments below.
Oh, I almost forgot. My top scents! Roberto Cavalli Paradiso Azzurro as Blue Paradise is a luxurious and aromatic scent perfect for spring and summer. Top notes: bergamote, lavender and orange, base cypress, cashmere wood, amber, sandalwood and a bit of vanilla. Long lasting, fresh and spicy. Yum!
I'm loving also the good old L'Occitane Red Cherry and Avon Little Sequin dress – I hyped over that one before. Tropical and fruity – never thought I would love it. But here I am.
Tell me, any springy goods you love this year?
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Place Your Bets: An Exploratory Study of Sports-Gambling Operators' Use of Twitter for Relationship Marketing
in International Journal of Sport Communication
Emily Stadder * , 1 and Michael L. Naraine * , 2
1 University of Windsor, Canada
2 Brock University, Canada
https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2019-0114
Australia; hashtags; influencers; promotions; social media
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Worldwide, sports gambling is a multibillion-dollar industry. Despite the industry's size and success, little research has been conducted on sport-gambling operators (SGOs), and no research has examined their presence on social media. As such, this exploratory study aimed to examine the social media habits of SGOs through a relationship-marketing lens. To do so, 16,466 tweets were collected from the Twitter accounts of six Australian SGOs, with descriptive statistics from tweets presented and Leximancer performing automated thematic analyses. Results indicated that SGOs are discussing professionalized sport, influencers, and subbrands, as well as extensively making use of hashtags and mentions. Given these results, the strategies that SGOs are using to communicate and interact with their consumers focuses particularly on a North American professional-sport and horseracing context. This research contributes to the growing understanding of social media stakeholders in sport and provides an initial starting point for future research on SGOs given the recent legalization of sports gambling in the United States.
* Stadder is with the Dept. of Kinesiology, Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada. Naraine is with the Dept. of Sport Management, Brock University, Saint Catharines, ON, Canada, and the School of Allied Health, La Trobe University, Australia.
Stadder (staddere@uwindsor.ca) is corresponding author.
International Journal of Sport Communication
Review of Literature and Theoretical Framework
Traditional-Gambling and Sports-Gambling Promotion
Social Media Use in Sport
Practical Implications
Theoretical Implications
Limitations and Future Directions
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At the same time, in calendar year 2007, the CFOC announced that for the second consecutive year, every major federal agency completed its Performance and Accountability Report just 25 days after the end of the fiscal year (2006). However, the key to learning from the past is through segmentation. This article continues the theme of reporting excellence and we highlight nine reports every CFO in a leading finance function should be presenting. A finance department usually consists of qualified accountants such as Certified Public Accountant, Chartered Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, Chartered Certified Accountant. The CFO typically reports to the chief executive officer (CEO) and the board of directors and may additionally have a seat on the board. This should include a medium-term view and a short-term, say 60 or 90-day, view of cash. ... a CFO is in a position to give the board a more prudent view of the state of the business. This is a really important one when benchmarking different parts of the business – whether that is business units, locations, channels, sales team etc. Extract the most relevant content from the report to formulate a one-page executive summary. Its mandate is to work collaboratively to improve financial management in the U.S. government and "advise and coordinate the activities of the agencies of its members" in the areas of financial management and accountability. The Office of Federal Financial Management (OFFM) is specifically charged with overseeing financial management matters, establishing financial management policies and requirements, and monitoring the establishment and operation of federal financial management systems. A chief executive officer or CEO report is the ultimate supporting paper, that lays out the general business context from which the reader can dig into specific information for key decisions. The CFO Report 2015 2 As a CFO undertaking one of the most demanding jobs in business today, it is important to benchmark one's decisions by gaining an understanding of what others in the CFO role are doing or thinking. 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The bread and butter of every CFO reporting period, de facto. Discovery's acquisition of Scripps, which would make it the largest non-scripted, factual media company in the world, was the spark and catalyst. Information presented to – TechCrunch", "Why CFOs Need To Be Chief Future Officers", "The CFO and the CPO: One World, Two Worldviews Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Procurement Officer (CPO)", List of business and finance abbreviations, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chief_financial_officer&oldid=991024914, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 November 2020, at 21:35. Formally, these Reports respond to the Conference Report (H.R. This reporting focuses on where future sales are coming from – in your business that could be your sales forecast or your customer pipeline. In a B2C business that could be more focused on repeat orders or customer acquisition channels. Sign up to our Newsletter to make sure you receive our latest blogs like this. Half of them also indicated that CEOs counted on them to challenge the company's strategy. Nonetheless, it's something that should be reported on and monitored. It is the only survey of major corporate users of capital that gauges attitudes to valuations, risk and financing. The role of the chief financial officer, the CFO, is one that continues to evolve. The online accounting platform is delivered as a fully hosted Software-as-a-Service offering which cuts costs, informs better decision-making and boosts productivity. Early awareness of risks is often enough to set the right plan in motion to weather the storm. This enables the HR person to speak directly to the person who most closely molds your corporate culture, the President or CEO. Why inconsistencies occur and how to overcome them, Further problems with Multiple currencies. proportionately spending more time on understanding and decision-making rather than preparing the reports. AccountsIQ now supports over 4,000 companies in over 85 countries. The CFO directly assists the chief operating officer (COO) on all strategic and tactical matters relating to budget management, cost–benefit analysis, forecasting needs, and securing of new funding. The CFO Act also established the CFO Council, chair by the OMB Deputy Director for Management and including the CFOs and Deputy CFOs of 23 federal agencies, the OFFM controller, and the Fiscal Assistant Secretary, the head of the Office of Fiscal Service of the Department of the Treasury. When you're talking about a CFO report to the CEO or about a CFO report to the board of directors, the berry ratio is a KPI that will prove very effective. The chief program officer was Monique Burns, and she had responsibility for selecting, training, and coaching the new leaders. Listed below are two stocks that have had recent selling activity reported by insiders. While the above covers the reporting themes we would expect to see in a leading finance function, it is also worth highlighting a few areas that separate the typical finance function from a leading one: The purpose of all of the above is for the management team, C-suite or even the Board to make better, more informed strategic decisions. The CFO Act marked a major effort to improve U.S. Government financial management and accountability. Understanding this leads to better decisions and overall business improvements. W hen Discovery Communications identified an opportunity to reimagine its tax function, Todd Davis, EVP and Senior Tax Counsel, looked to Ernst & Young LLP and other member firms ("EY") as a co-creator. Of course, specific metrics will apply from sector to sector, but the themes remain. Book one of our popular Webinars or Request a Demo. [7] Many organisations have embarked on the journey to help achieve this by creating a finance function based on four distinct pillars - An Accounting organisation structured as a shared service, an FP&A organisation responsible for driving financial planning processes as well as driving increased insight into financial and non financial KPIs that drive business performance, a Finance Business Partnering organisation that supports the leadership of divisions, regions, functions to drive performance improvement and, last but not least, expertise centres around the areas of Tax, Treasury, Internal Audit, M&A etc. In a B2B business that's specific on customers and debt. ability to report on more than just financial numbers; mashing financial & non-financial metrics together to enrich the information; moving up the reporting maturity curve; and. Customer-centric reporting is key to focusing on performance. Our report CFO 3.0: Digital transformation beyond financial management, preparing the finance function in the wake of COVID-19, based on a survey of over 300 South African senior financial decision makers, provides unique insight into the CFO's evolving role in driving digital transformation. The CFO supervises the finance unit and is the chief financial spokesperson for the organization. In the last two years running, AccountsIQ celebrates winning the UK Enterprise Accounting Software of the Year award, plus ranking 21 in Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 high growth index and also gained a ranking in Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 EMEA. The CFO typically reports to the chief executive officer (CEO) and the board of directors and may additionally have a seat on the board. Procurify sat down with 12 panelists to discuss the role of the CFO in 2020 and beyond in our new Finance Leadership Report, The Future of the CFO. The shorter 60 or 90-day forecast can be a one-sided cash-only view, but obviously needs to be reconciled to the opening balance sheet position. In a recent survey of midmarket CIOs and IT executives, nearly half said they report directly to the CEO, while 23 percent report to the CFO. [14], "CFO" redirects here. Now, with the combination of all the factors at play, business and what's happening outside are actually one." he views of the senior executive quoted above, In recent years, the role of the CFO has evolved significantly. There are many ways to measure productivity and they will differ by type of business and sector. It doesn't need to be in an OKR format but reporting on specific business objectives progress is paramount. We once worked with a FTSE250 company that couldn't tell the global spend by customer. Submit the report to the CEO on—or, ideally, before—deadline. Within OMB, the Deputy Director for Management, a position established by the CFO Act, is the chief official responsible for financial management. In a recent report, "Group Finance Reporting", we highlight the importance of performance management reporting in leading finance functions and illustrated the challenges around getting a single version of the truth in terms of accurate data. Some CFOs have the title CFOO for chief financial and operating officer. Most CFOs of large companies have finance qualifications such as a Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Science (in either Finance or Accounting), CFA or come from an accounting background such as a Certified Public Accountant. [8] The CFO must serve as the financial authority in the organization, ensuring the integrity of fiscal data and modeling transparency and accountability. 101-576). CFOs are increasingly playing a more critical role in shaping their company's strategies today, especially in light of the highly uncertain macroeconomic environments,[11] where managing financial volatilities is becoming a centerpiece for many companies' strategies, based on a survey held by Clariden Global. Additionally, many CFOs have made the realization that an operating environment that values cash, profit margins, and risk mitigation is one that plays to the primary skills and capabilities of a procurement organization, and become increasingly involved (directly via oversight or indirectly through improved collaboration) with the procurement function according to a recent research report that looks at the CFO's relationship with procurement. CFO Reports Performance metrics are a critical tool for improving program management. Again, even within the business, benchmarking is a powerful way to learn more about successful and efficient processes, people and departments. Cameco Corp. On Jan. 5, chief financial officer Grant Isaac exercised his … What Is a CEO Report? The Chief Financial Officers Act, enacted in 1990, created a chief financial officer in each of 23 federal agencies. Often specific project initiatives are set up to meet shorter term objectives and so reporting on these separately is often the best way to focus on them. The CFO is now expected to be a key player in stockholder education[9] and communication and is clearly seen as a leader and team builder who sets the financial agenda for the organization, supports the CEO directly and provides timely advice to the board of directors."[10]. Like all reporting, it's all about applying smart changes to the business. The chief financial officer (CFO) is officer of a company that has primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financial reporting. How to Get Fast, Accurate, and Value-Generating Finance Reports. The berry ratio is a CFO KPI that visualizes and quantifies the ratio of gross profit in relation to operating expenses. We've seen limitations at both ends of the spectrum – dis-aggregated and aggregated information. Past performance, particularly segmented, is very useful to understand high performing business units, products, channels, sales persons etc. These reports can be delivered in the form of an interactive dashboard or .pdf file, for example. For other uses, see, "Job openings/CFOO - Wikimedia Foundation", "GAO: U.S. Financial Statements Receive Disclaimer of Opinion For 10th Straight Year", "CFO Role Shifts From Number Cruncher To Business Leader – TechCrunch", "With AI, CFOs Are Poised To Evolve Their Role Within Organizations", "McKinsey on Finance. This is really a sub section of the consolidated and segmented P&L but going even deeper into product/sales mix & concentration will give you a lot more insight into what matters – how to grow your top line and what is working well with customers. To download copies of recent research reports, for information on becoming a sponsor, or for detailed contact information, visit the CFO Research Services website. [6] The rise of digital technologies and a focus on data analytics to support decision making impacting almost every industry and organisation will only add more pressure on CFOs to address this tension on finding the time to meet the expectations of their C-Suite colleagues. No. The federal government of the United States has incorporated more elements of business-sector practices in its management approaches, including the use of the CFO position alongside, for example, an increased use of the chief information officer post, within public agencies. Next post: AccountsIQ Wins Fast 50 Ranking for Fourth Year Running », Keep in touch with our latest products and news, - The CFO supervises the finance unit and is the chief financial spokesperson for the organization. Learn more about the benefits of using AccountsIQ or how to transform your finance function by contacting us for a chat, booking a demo or an upcoming webinar. [1] In the United Kingdom, the typical term for a CFO is finance director (FD). Rep.)) accompanying the Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, which requested the DOE Chief Financial Officer "develop and execute a financial accounting report of LDRD expenditures by laboratory and weapons production plant." It's important to have both – a consolidated view top-down and the ability to drill into sufficient segmented detail to get a deeper understanding of what is working and what is not. [5] However, a 2016 survey of CFOs suggests that their new role has been overhyped with 52% of CFOs still finding themselves bogged down in the basics of traditional accounting practices such as transaction reporting and unable to make time for business partnering. The site contains a unique mix of premium content Special Reports, which are available to bona-fide "C" level executives within major corporations and SMEs. It is designed for organisations who need a common platform for managing and benchmarking multiple companies and business units. Examples of subordinate executive officers who typically report to the CEO include the chief operating officer (COO), chief financial officer (CFO) and chief business officer (CBO). The Reports Consolidation Act of 2000 authorizes Federal agencies, with the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) concurrence, to consolidate various reports in order to provide performance, financial and related information in a more meaningful and useful format. While significant progress in improving federal financial management has been made since the federal government began preparing consolidated financial statements, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that "major impediments continue to prevent [GAO] from rendering an opinion. From the time when we first founded the organization, Jon Schnur was the CEO, and he handled overall management, strategy, fundraising, and external partnerships. Fully flexible, with the ability to meet the changing needs of a growing business, it offers bespoke solutions that are designed to meet your needs, both now and into the future. In a small company the CFO should report to the CEO. Apple CFO Luca Maestri and former Apple chief design officer Jony Ive are reportedly two candidates being considered for the newly-vacant CEO position of Ferrari. OFFM is led by a controller. The point is, your performance reporting should include some form of customer reporting to better understand your customer behaviour. The circular is a re-examination of the existing internal control requirements for federal agencies and was initiated in light of the new internal control requirements for publicly traded companies contained in the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. Information such as sales status, profit earnings, and project progress are among the most crucial data of a CEO report.. The CEO Report | 4 "Once business was impervious. The Center for Charge Card Management (CCCM) is providing current and historical delinquency metrics for the CFO Act Agencies to keep them informed on the overall financial management health of the SmartPay program and for each individual agency listed. In both, it could be customer acquisition cost, churn, new customers, customer satisfaction or NPS score. They are designed to help users identify new management solutions, understand the implications of different decision alternatives and … Although a CEO's job is to oversee the company, he or she can't do it alone. Traditionally, this may not be an area that finance has owned. Interestingly, there is a good mix of future looking and historic looking reporting, along with a mix of financial and non-financial reporting. The CEO is typically responsible for the corporation's entire operations, decision-making process, etc. With so much responsibility and so much potential impact on your business, HR should report to the CEO or President of your company. In some sectors, the CFO is also responsible for analysis of data. 15 hours ago, - Use a binder to hold and organize the executive summary, report and appendices. Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and former Chief Design Officer Jony Ive are reportedly candidates to be Ferrari's next CEO, reports Reuters, citing Italian media. Functional specialists such as the Chief Information Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Human Resources Office and Chief Data Officer are more frequently reporting directly to … Traditionally being viewed as a financial gatekeeper, the role of the CFO has expanded and evolved to an advisor and a strategic partner to the CEO. Too few SMEs are doing this and even fewer are doing this properly. However, with the savvy CFO acting as chief steward and moving into the role of Chief Performance Officer, then ownership of risks around performance improvement should certainly be part of that remit. According to one source, "The CFO of tomorrow should be a big-picture thinker, rather than detail-oriented, outspoken rather than reserved, prefer to delegate rather than be hands-on, emphasize what gets done rather than how things are done, and make collaborative rather than unilateral decisions. A medium-term forecast should absolutely be integrated with cashflow, P&L and balance sheet forecasts. China's Top Chipmaker Slides After Co-CEO Abruptly Quits Bloomberg News December 15, 2020, 8:53 PM EST Updated on December 16, 2020, 7:03 AM EST Conventional wisdom says that the CIO must report to the CEO or risk losing stature, authority and access to the power center of the company. The following are the report key takeaways: Data-Driven CFO As their role begins to handle both financial and non-financial information, CFOs are capitalizing on optical character recognition (OCR) to ease data capture, and utilizing big data analytics and management to unlock hidden data values. The duties of a modern CFO now straddle the traditional areas of financial stewardship and the more progressive areas of strategic and business leadership with direct responsibility and oversight of operations (which often includes procurement) expanding exponentially. You could operate and the world around you could be a vortex of activity, but you could just keep going. For management purposes, it is timeliness and "mostly accurate" is good enough. Given how small small companies tend to be (yes, I wrote "small" twice intentionally) it does not make much sense to add a COO layer. 27, Spring 2008", "Future of the Finance Function Survey 2016", "6 Technology Trends for CFOs in 2018: We asked the experts", "Good Chief Financial Officers Focus on Much More Than Finance", "How CFO's Can Turn Stakeholders Into Allies - By Maureen O'Connell", "When Should Startups Hire A CFO? Cash and cashflow forecast. The pandemic has reinforced the increased breadth and scope of responsibilities for many CFOs. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Report This section contains the annual CMS financial statements as required under the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act of 1990 (P.L. A CEO report is a document or memo that contains information about the company's current state that a CEO must know. A CEO report is a critical part of a CEO dashboard, serving up historical trends, and real-time insights in a way that's visual, digestible, and easy to navigate. Run the final draft by the CEO's secretary or assistant. Unless you're sitting on large cash reserves that just keep growing, this should be right at the top of your list! Less than 50% of FTSE100 companies align their reporting with their objectives; this number is much lower in SMEs and we can't reiterate enough how important this is to support your strategy. Understanding past performance while still looking forward can absolutely support management in making better, more informed decisions. CFOs need their reports done quickly and efficiently. Designed for the cloud, AccountsIQ is unique in providing Accounting, Consolidation and Business Intelligence in one powerful solution. 106-988 (Conf. The quarterly CFO Survey is firmly established with media and policy makers as the authoritative barometer of UK corporates' sentiment and strategies. CFO Research Services is the sponsored research arm of CFO Publishing. AccountsIQ is a cloud-based accounting solution that offers seamless reporting, integration and consolidation. Good-quality information should be: Relevant. This tool is not meant to be 100% accurate. Our premium content Special Reports are targeted at Chairmen, CEOs, Finance Directors and other senior executives. Some OKR (objectives & key results) reporting may be embedded in other reports but in our experience, this is very poorly reported. 17 hours ago. The CFO of Tomorrow: New Report Reveals Changing CFO Responsibilities. Understanding gross margin at a segmented level helps you first identify which parts of the business are providing greater contribution and when using it to benchmark, apply lessons from top performing parts to lower performing parts of the business, and thus raising the overall average across the business. While financial numbers on here are relevant and feed into your overall cashflow forecast, the important aspect of this is the number of customers, who they are (in a B2B world), probability of conversion, when they will materialise and the value. The uneven pace of recovery worldwide has made it more challenging for many companies. Reporting on, and discussing, cashflow; current cash position and future expected net cashflows, along with timing, is paramount. There are 3 sections to the flash report: Liquidity, Productivity and Profitability.Flash Reports are a rough measure of change. Don't fall into this trap! OMB Circular A-123 (issued 21 December 2004) defines the management responsibilities for internal financial controls in federal agencies and addressed to all federal CFOs, CIOs and Program Managers. Rep. No. [13] This significant role-based transformation, which is well underway, is best-evidenced by the "CEO-in-Waiting" status that many CFOs now hold. Make reasonable changes based on their suggestions. [3][4] In fact, in a report released by McKinsey, 88 percent of 164 CFOs surveyed reported that CEOs expect them to be more active participants in shaping the strategy of their organizations. The CFO is as much a part of governance and oversight as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), playing a fundamental role in the development and critique of strategic choices. Speak to a product expert on +44 (0)203 598 7350 or email sales@accountsIQ.com. This was intended to improve the government's financial management and develop standards of financial performance and disclosure. "[2] In December 2006, the GAO announced that for the 10th consecutive year, the GAO was prevented from expressing an opinion on the consolidated financial statements of the government due to a number of material weaknesses related to financial systems, fundamental recordkeeping, and financial reporting. The CFO reports to the chief executive officer (CEO) but has significant input in the company's investments, capital structure, and how the company manages its … The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) holds primary responsibility for financial management standardization and improvement. CFO responsibilities are changing. This report sets out principles for the effective reporting of financial and non-financial information to boards. The following content will put your organization's process effectiveness in perspective. [12] CFOs are increasingly being relied upon as the owners of business information, reporting and financial data within organizations and assisting in decision support operations to enable the company to operate more effectively and efficiently. Controllership duties hold the CFO responsible for presenting and reporting accurate and timely historical financial information of the company he or … In this podcast, which accompanies the ACCA and IMA report 'The CFO of the Future', we … I was the COO, and I hired the other people, set up the finances, established us as a nonprofit, and did the budgeting and forecasting. In fact, unless the CEO is very hands-off, it's pretty rare to have anyone between the CFO and the CEO at any size company, much less a small company. 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Biopharmaceuticals Regulatory
News Release - October 4, 2007
Genzyme Receives Approval to Market Elaprase(R) in Japan
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 4 (HSMN NewsFeed) -- Genzyme Corp. (Nasdaq: GENZ ) announced today that it has received approval to market Elaprase® (idursulfase) in Japan for the treatment of Hunter syndrome. Elaprase is an enzyme replacement therapy developed by Shire Human Genetic Therapies Inc., and Genzyme is commercializing the product in Japan and other Asia Pacific countries under an agreement with Shire. Genzyme intends to launch Elaprase this quarter, following reimbursement approval.
Hunter syndrome, also known as Mucopolysaccharidosis II (MPS II), is a rare, life-threatening genetic condition mainly affecting males that results from the absence or insufficient levels of the lysosomal enzyme iduronate-2-sulfatase. Without this enzyme, cellular waste products accumulate in tissues and organs which then begin to malfunction, leading to severe clinical complications and early mortality.
Elaprase is the fifth enzyme replacement therapy that Genzyme has introduced in Japan. The company also markets Cerezyme® (imiglucerase for injection) for Type 1 Gaucher disease; Fabrazyme® (agalsidase beta) for Fabry disease; Aldurazyme® (laronidase) for MPS I; and Myozyme® (alglucosidase alfa) for Pompe disease.
"Our deep experience in Japan in the area of lysosomal storage disorders will enable us to make Elaprase available to all patients who need treatment as quickly as possible," said David Meeker, M.D., president of Genzyme's Lysosomal Storage Disorders business unit. "We anticipate that Elaprase will become an increasingly significant contributor for us as we introduce the product across the region."
Genzyme is currently working to obtain marketing approval for Elaprase in several additional countries. The company anticipates approval in Australia by the end of this year and in Taiwan and South Korea next year.
Under its agreement with Shire, Genzyme will record product sales in the region and allocate approximately one-third of net sales to Shire. Genzyme will make a $3 million milestone payment to Shire in recognition of Japanese marketing approval, and it will make a $4 million milestone payment upon reimbursement approval.
Genzyme established commercial operations in Japan twenty years ago and currently employs more than 100 people in the country. Genzyme was the first non-Japanese biotechnology company to introduce therapeutic products in Japan without Japanese partners. The company today also markets Seprafilm® adhesion barrier and offers genetic testing services.
About Genzyme
One of the world's leading biotechnology companies, Genzyme is dedicated to making a major positive impact on the lives of people with serious diseases. Since 1981, the company has grown from a small start-up to a diversified enterprise with nearly 10,000 employees in locations spanning the globe and 2006 revenues of $3.2 billion. In 2007, Genzyme was chosen to receive the National Medal of Technology, the highest honor awarded by the President of the United States for technological innovation. In 2006 and 2007, Genzyme was selected by FORTUNE as one of the "100 Best Companies to Work for" in the United States.
With many established products and services helping patients in nearly 90 countries, Genzyme is a leader in the effort to develop and apply the most advanced technologies in the life sciences. The company's products and services are focused on rare inherited disorders, kidney disease, orthopaedics, cancer, transplant, and diagnostic testing. Genzyme's commitment to innovation continues today with a substantial development program focused on these fields, as well as immune disease, infectious disease, and other areas of unmet medical need.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements about the expected launch date for Elaprase, the timing of receipt of reimbursement approvals, our ability to make Elaprase available to all patients who need treatment, the potential impact of Elaprase sales on Genzyme's revenue, actions by regulatory and governmental agencies as well as anticipated regulatory approval dates, and the number of potential patients in Genzyme's territories. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, among others: Genzyme's ability to secure sufficient product supply and to distribute the product in a timely and effective manner, Genzyme's ability to obtain reimbursement approvals and the level of such approvals, the ability to obtain marketing approval within the territory, the size of the market in Genzyme's jurisdictions for the therapy, actions by governmental authorities related to Elaprase, and the other risks and uncertainties described in reports filed by Genzyme with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including without limitation the information under the heading "Risk Factors" in the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations section of the Genzyme Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ending June 30, 2007. Genzyme cautions investors not to place substantial reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. These statements speak only as of the date of this press release, and Genzyme undertakes no obligation to update or revise the statements.
Genzyme®, Cerezyme®, Fabrazyme®, Aldurazyme®, Myozyme®, and Seprafilm® are registered trademarks of Genzyme Corporation. All rights reserved. Elaprase is a trademark of Shire Human Genetic Therapies Inc.
Genzyme's press releases and other company information are available at http://www.genzyme.com and by calling Genzyme's investor information line at 1-800-905-4369 within the United States or 1-703-797-1866 outside the United States.
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"I'm so grateful for my residency training at BIDMC. I would not be the doctor I am today without that training, which I still draw on all the time"
Lorelei Grunwaldt, MD, always knew that she wanted to be a doctor. She was inspired by her father, a family practitioner on Shelter Island, a small island off of Long Island with a year-round population of only about 2,000 people. He did everything from deliver babies and suture hunting wounds to perform minor surgery.
It was an early lesson in the importance of being nimble when it came to medicine, one that would be reinforced years later when Dr. Grunwaldt entered the surgical training program at BIDMC. Although eventually she would become a pediatric plastic surgeon, she remains grateful for the program's broad-minded approach.
"Training in general surgery rather than specializing right away was one of the most wonderful things that could have happened to me," Dr. Grunwaldt says. "The program at BIDMC helped me learn not only the fundamentals of surgery but also how to take excellent care of patients."
After graduating from Harvard College and earning her medical degree at Upstate Medical University, Dr. Grunwaldt spent five years in the General Surgery Residency Program at BIDMC. Several mentors stand out in particular, including Christopher Boyd, MD, Jonathan Critchlow, MD, Daniel Jones, MD, and Nicholas Tawa, MD, PhD. "They were all great teachers," she says.
Dr. Grunwaldt went on to train in plastic surgery at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and completed a fellowship in craniofacial and pediatric plastic surgery at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, where she continues to practice today. As her career has evolved, Dr. Grunwaldt has focused more on cleft surgery and pediatric plastic surgery, although she continues to perform many types of surgery. Currently she directs both the Vascular Anomalies Center and the Brachial Plexus Clinic at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and is an Assistant Professor of Surgery in the Department of Plastic Surgery at UPMC.
"I find plastic surgery rewarding because you can see the difference you are making in a person's life," Dr. Grunwaldt says, "whether it means restoring arm movement to a child who has a brachial plexus injury or repairing disfiguring wounds."
Recently, for example, she operated on a young boy who was bitten by a dog, losing part of his mouth and cheek. In a two-stage operation, she reconstructed the boy's face and reattached severed facial nerves. Although he will need physical therapy to fully recover, so far his progress has been encouraging.
A particularly heart-rending case involved an infant whose penis was accidently severed during circumcision. "I wasn't sure if I could help this child, but I knew I had to try," Dr. Grunwaldt says. Using microsurgical techniques, she and a team of doctors reattached the severed organ so well that a urologist who examined the baby said it was hard to tell he was ever injured.
The pressures of her practice don't leave a lot of free time, but Dr. Grunwaldt still manages to relax. She recalls a visit to a pet store to buy fish because they are low maintenance, only to return home with a puppy, Thelma, who is a bit more demanding but also a lot of fun. Dr. Grunwaldt is also passionate about travel and has visited Africa, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Hawaii, and Australia.
"I'm so grateful for my residency training at BIDMC," Dr. Grunwaldt says. "I would not be the doctor I am today without that training, which I still draw on all the time."


When suggesting solutions for the Picture-problem in my blog about the OutOfMemoryException, I talked about a possibility to work with an extra dataset to provide a picture, separated from your invoice dataset.
People were interested, so I wrote a blog about it, but haven't published it yet. I'm going to .. but I felt forced in blogging this one first .. as in my opinion, my dataset-solution was too far-fetched, and I didn't want anyone to start implementing it, while there are better solutions.
First of all, I got the suggestion to "split the one big dataset" (one print of one report of multiple documents) into printing that one report multiple times (each document is a separate REPORT.RUN).. . That might work to solve the OutOfMemoryException .. but you're not quite sure, are you? If you still have many lines on the report, then you'll be running into the same problems .. . I hope I didn't misunderstand the proposed solution. At least many thanks to Craig!
Wouldn't a simple clear on the blob field on the following dataitem (lets assume its sales line) be enough to have the picture only on the first row?
And it does exactly what we were intending to do: only the picture in the first line of the dataset.
My dataset-solution was clearly too far-fetched!
Goh .. to be honest, when a report is using too much memory, I don't want to solve it with doing anything on Windows/hardware/infrastructure level.
It smells too much on something you have to adjust on the report itself..
One of my partner's cust. face with this error. So she found at one of forum said need to increase virtual memory. How do you think on that.
@Steven: you're very right indeed. And mostly, the simplest solutions are the hardest to find..
Hey waldo, i'am proud to be named in a blog post of you :).


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package io.restassured.specification;

import org.hamcrest.Matcher;

/**
 * The response logging specification
 */
public interface ResponseLogSpecification extends LogSpecification<ResponseSpecification> {

    /**
     * Logs only the status line (includes the status code)
     *
     * @return The response specification
     */
    ResponseSpecification status();

    /**
     * Logs everything only if an error occurs (status code >= 400).
     *
     * @return The response specification
     */
    ResponseSpecification ifError();

    /**
     * Logs everything only if if the status code is equal to statusCode.
     *
     * @param statusCode The status code
     * @return The response specification
     */
    ResponseSpecification ifStatusCodeIsEqualTo(int statusCode);

    /**
     * Logs everything only if if the status code matches the supplied matcher
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     * @param matcher The hamcrest matcher
     * @return The response specification
     */
    ResponseSpecification ifStatusCodeMatches(Matcher<Integer> matcher);
}