Jim Schneider, Dell's chief financial officer, will step down from his position by the end of January, while the SEC continues to investigate the company's accounting practices.
Donald Carty, the former chief executive and chief financial officer of AMR--the parent company of American Airlines--will replace Schneider, Dell announced Tuesday. Carty has been on Dell's board of directors since 1992 and chaired the audit committee, which is conducting its own investigation into Dell's accounting practices.
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Carty will assume the title of vice chairman and chief financial officer, keeping his position on the board. He will officially start his executive duties on January 2, with Schneider staying on until the end of the month to help with the transition, a company representative said.
The company representative said Schneider is "retiring," but he will also be joining the board of directors at Frontier Bancshares as chairman. Frontier is a bank-holding company based in Austin, Texas, near Dell's headquarters in Round Rock.
Schneider has been with Dell since 1996, becoming CFO in 2000. He joined the company when it was still finding its way among the leaders in the PC market, but oversaw a period of strong growth fueled by direct sales and lean inventory management. In the early part of this decade, when its competitors were struggling to cope with the fallout from the dot-com bust, Dell posted strong growth in both revenue and profits quarter after quarter.
But this has not been a good financial year for Dell. The company has missed its earnings targets several times as it copes with a slowdown in demand for desktop PCs. Its accounting practices have also come under scrutiny this year, and Dell has been forced to delay the release of its earnings report to the Securities and Exchange Commission until it can get a handle on its accounting issues.
Carty won't be the only new executive at Dell next year. The company will start 2007 with several new executives in various roles. It also reorganized the product side of the company into two new divisions in a bid to focus more closely on its customers.
They make Millions and still want to take the share away from common men. Their Salaries are in Millions and stocks are billions and still want to make more money in short span of time by mis- leading revenues and profits. Their salaries and benefits should be reduced and more strigent accounting practice need to be brought in. Else very soon many more Enron's would be born to cause disaster to common man and share holders.
On a more constructive not from yours, Dell are actually in a bit of trouble right now - from the late adoption of AMD (while some might argue that Intel is more of a household name, Dell were failing to attract the Níche they so needed) to NASDAQ refusing to list them due to their poor accounting practise and deadline keeping - it's more than just Chief Officers being paid to much.
And right now, sayig their stock is worth Billions? Not so sure on that, not least because their figures are all wrong due the this accounting problem.
Restructuring is a natural step in the IT Industry at present, Intel just went through it, so did AMD and I'm sure there are many others too.
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common men. Their Salaries are in Millions and stocks are billions
and still want to make more money in short span of time by mis-
leading revenues and profits. Their salaries and benefits should be
reduced and more strigent accounting practice need to be brought
in. Else very soon many more Enron's would be born to cause
disaster to common man and share holders.
And right now, sayig their stock is worth Billions? Not so sure on that, not least because their figures are all wrong due the this accounting problem.
Restructuring is a natural step in the IT Industry at present, Intel just went through it, so did AMD and I'm sure there are many others too.