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Salon.com
January 28, 2002
Michael Drummond |
Class-action warrior When corporations run amok and accountants are shredding documents, who ya gonna call? Try lawyer Bill Lerach...   |
Inc.
May 1, 2000
D. M. Osborne |
Be Careful What You Wish For On the Road: Silicon Valley companies thought an act of Congress would solve their problems with Bill Lerach and his shareholder lawsuits. But reforms can work in quirky ways. |
U.S. Banker
July 2007
Karen Krebsbach |
Next for Top Court: Securities Fraud Whether banks that help public firms commit fraud are also liable soon will be a question before the Supreme Court. Its decision will affect litigants in the still-simmering Enron case. |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2004
Bill Mann |
Attack of the Killer Attorneys It's inevitable in every investor's career that he or she will hold a company that will attract class action lawsuits alleging some form of securities fraud. |
BusinessWeek
September 17, 2009
Michael Orey |
Commentary: Do Shareholder Class Actions Make Sense? Not when they extract payments from innocent shareholders and let fraudsters off the hook. |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Lori Calabro |
In Your Own Defense Why representing finance executives in lawsuits is both an art and a science. |
CFO
August 1, 2002 |
TGIM A funny name for the erstwhile PwC Consulting... WorldCom gets caught in a storm... executives are asked to swear; securities suits target nontechs... etc. |
BusinessWeek
February 27, 2006
Lorraine Woellert |
Fractured Class Actions Opting out of class settlements in hopes of winning more money are growing headache for companies. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2007
Rich Duprey |
SEC Backs Scheme Liability In an effort to deflect the criticism that it's too pro-business, the SEC has decided to back a theory that may ultimately prove to be a particularly shareholder-hostile action. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Reporting: See-Through Finance The market's distaste for complex financing could raise your company's cost of capital, even if you comply with new reporting rules. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Julia Homer |
How Did We Get Here? Much of what happened in the 1990s also happened in the 1980s. Here's hoping we don't do it again. |
CFO
October 1, 2002 |
Legal Unease A good board member is hard to find... the high price of audit reform... Congress takes aim at deferred compensation... etc. |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Kris Frieswick |
What Does Your CEO Really Know? How much do chief executives know about company finances? We asked more than 300 CFOs to rate their boss's finance IQ. |
The Motley Fool
July 8, 2004
Bill Mann |
Lay Surrenders, Pleads Not Guilty It took more than two years for to make a case against the executive who lorded over Enron's collapse that federal prosecutors think will stick. |
CFO
July 1, 2007
Scott Leibs |
Five Years and Accounting This story is Part 1 in a three-part series on how corporate finance has changed since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed. |
CFO
December 1, 2002
CFO Staff |
Is This The End? When is a recession over? When these folks say it is... Why some large companies are enamored of reverse stock splits... Stock-option hedging could soon be extinct... FASB's possible move to principles-based accounting... etc. |
CFO
March 1, 2005
Kate O'Sullivan |
Flashbacks: 20 Years of Finance Two tumultuous decades, from Treadway and Black Monday, to reengineering and ''irrational exuberance,'' to Reg FD and Sarbanes-Oxley. |
CFO
August 1, 2003
David Campbell |
Seeing Is Relieving Oil companies pressured to disclose payments to developing nations... IPO market limps back... Congress may ask CEOs to sign tax returns... investor relations visits Madison Avenue... a candid look inside the WorldCom fraud... etc. |
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Pitt On The Spot Plus, trade-show taxes... split-dollar life insurance... our quarterly Global Confidence Survey... |
BusinessWeek
June 12, 2006
Michael Orey |
Enron's Last Mystery Was Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, as blind to the company's shenanigans as it maintains? Internal messages suggest the firm doubted the legitimacy of some of Enron's business practices. |
CFO
June 1, 2003 |
The Plan of Plan B's Do plan B accounting firms present a real threat to the Big Four?... Master of Science in Financial Engineering program at Kent State University began trading derivatives on a simulated trading floor... Gov fails audit... Directors getting paid more... etc. |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Arthur Levitt |
You Are the Guardians Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt offers some pointed advice on how to restore confidence in corporate accounting. |
CFO
March 1, 2004
A CFO Interview |
New World Order IASB chairman Sir David Tweedie says global accounting standards are within reach. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 18, 2003 |
Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America. |
CFO
July 1, 2004 |
Double Standards? How controlled companies avoid independence rules... Name Game... Congress Weighs In -- Again... The Tortinator... etc. |
InternetNews
January 6, 2005
Colin C. Haley |
Report: WorldCom Class-Action Accord Near Former directors said to settle a suit stemming from accounting fraud for a total of $54 million. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
Playing Favorites Why Alan Greenspan's Fed lets banks off easy on corporate fraud. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others |
CFO
November 1, 2007
Kate Plourd |
What Goes Around In his heyday, Bill Lerach was so ruthless a class-action lawyer that in Silicon Valley his name was synonymous with being sued. Now Lerach is being "Lerached" himself -- to the great delight of much of the corporate community. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Robert Kuttner |
The Big Board: Crying Out for Regulation The Grasso pay debacle means the SEC should supervise the NYSE. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2005
Erin Joyce |
Ebbers' Fraud Trial Under Way Defense for former CEO of failed WorldCom seeks to point finger at others in accounting fraud trial. |
CFO
March 1, 2005
Tim Reason |
A Love-Hate Relationship Banks and their customers have grown closer to, and more wary of, each other. |
CFO
November 1, 2003 |
Citi's New Stance After more than a year of scandal and public penance, Citigroup CFO Todd Thomson is determined to rebuild the reputation of the financial-services giant. |
BusinessWeek
January 12, 2004 |
On Trial This year, the wheels of justice may catch up to some corporate movers and shakers. |
CFO
February 1, 2006
Kate O'Sullivan |
The Best Defense In today's high-stakes legal environment, top white-collar attorneys are ready to defend the CFO. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Lerach's Punishment Worse Than None at All William Lerach makes a plea agreement in his fraud case stemming from bogus class-action lawsuits. Investors, take note how this may have affected you. |
Financial Planning
September 1, 2005
Suzanne McGee |
Scandal! Corporate governance experts agree that the past two decades have been a particularly fertile period for scandals, generating an abundance of candidates for inclusion in a new series of "Wall Street Most Wanted" playing cards. What motivates the cheaters -- greed, fear or ego? |
InternetNews
August 10, 2005
Tim Gray |
WorldCom Execs Face Sentencing Former execs learn how much time they will serve for their roles in the telecom's massive fraud. |
Reason
January 2006
Brian Doherty |
You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Mike France |
Corporate America's New Accountability When companies break the law, the first thing chief executives typically do is plead ignorance. But in a post-Enron world, "I didn't know" won't cut it. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
CFO Staff |
And Justice for All? CFOs facing civil or criminal trials today might wish they had settled or done their time already... More than 80,000 U.S. employees of Arthur Andersen, which closed its doors on August 31, hit the job market this summer... etc. |
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Material Whirl A stock-transfer scam forces a big nonoperating charge... new evidence that banks put the squeeze on credit customers... the inside dope on earnings management attempts... etc. |
CFO
January 10, 2007 |
In Whose Best Interest? How Accounting Firms Would Change Their Industry... Why Performance Scorecards Still Fail... The Uninspired American Employee... M&A and Option Backdating... The CFO as Investor-Relations Professional... etc. |
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2005
Seth Jayson |
Ebbers: I Don't Know Nothin' WorldCom's ex-CEO claims he had no idea about the massive accounting fraud. The empire's last proxy statement is a stark lesson in the kind of abject corporate governance that any smart investor should avoid. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2007
Michael Hickins |
'Justice is Served' to Nacchio Did the former Qwest CEO miss an opportunity to save himself some jail time? |
The Motley Fool
March 3, 2004
Bill Mann |
WorldCom's Ebbers Surrenders WorldCom's CFO finally gives up the goods on the top man in an $11 billion fraud case. |
CFO
Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Henry et al. |
The Boss on the Sidelines Auditors, directors, and lawyers are asserting their new-age power, and the reason for their defiance is no great mystery. The watchdogs are finally facing genuine liability for their failures. |
CFO
June 1, 2004 |
Break Up the Big Four? It may be time to break up the largest accounting firms... Calpers steps up its shareholder activism... Commercial banks provide a viable alternative to IPO underwriting... New rules for overtime pay... etc. |
CFO
September 1, 2007 |
Mend the GAAP Simplifying Financial Reporting... Prosecuting CFOs... Finding Board Members... Gaining Proxy Access... Regulating Rating Agencies... etc. |
