At the same time and the executives asked by CFO Magazine recognised this the increased demands on the CFO have also provided opportunities for greater recognition.

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In a poll conducted in December 2003 by CFO Magazine, a sister publication of The Economist, more than 60% of the finance executives polled said they spent more time involved with their company's board of directors or audit committees after Enron.

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Flying back from a CFO conference last month, I read a Malcolm Gladwell story in the New Yorker magazine about Nathan Myhrvold and a band of merry inventors.

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