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Salon.com
September 25, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Investors of the world, unite! Former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt declares the time is ripe for fighting back against Wall Street.   |
Entrepreneur
April 2002
Jennifer Pellet |
Tough Enough Despite speculations of a kinder SEC, Harvey Pitt is cracking down on business... |
Registered Rep.
December 11, 2002
Will Leitch |
Bush Appoints DLJ Founder To Run SEC A month since embattled former chairman Harvey Pitt resigned, President Bush announced plans to nominate William Donaldson, founder of investment bank Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. |
InternetNews
March 10, 2005
Roy Mark |
Senate: Stock Option Expensing Likely Tech industry claims new accounting rules will hurt profits and cripple employee incentives. |
Wired
February 2002
Adam Lashinsky |
The Post-Enron Economy Sometimes it takes a meltdown to force regulators into action... |
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... |
Registered Rep.
November 8, 2002
David A. Geracioti |
The Doctor, Not the Rule Book Speaking to the SIA, outgoing SEC Chief Pitt says the SEC enforced regulations with "unprecedented vigor." |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Abe de Ramos |
Standards Bearer The chairman of the IASC, Paul Volcker, shares some caustic comments on stock options, corporate boards, and the relative merits of GAAP. |
Reason
April 2007
Brian Doherty |
Sarb-Ox Showdown A pro-market research institute and a small accounting firm are taking Sarbanes-Oxley to court and claim in their suit that the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board violates the Constitution in several ways. |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
Registered Rep.
November 7, 2002 |
SIA Conference: Let's Get Confident! Rudy says: I won't take SEC helm if asked. It's official: It's a time for "building investor confidence." That's the theme of this year's Securities Industry Association gabfest, held at the tony Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton, Fla. Never mind that SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt resigned two days ago. Think positively. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
John Churchill |
SEC to Lose Its Head Some say the departure of SEC Chairman William Donaldson, appointed by President George W. Bush to help restore confidence in scandal-ridden markets, can't result in anything positive for the Commission's agenda in the near future. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Feeling Burned by Accounting Scams in the U.S.? Just Look Overseas Self-dealing and the misappropriation of profits at the expense of minority shareholders is much more common in other countries due to the weaker legal measures protecting such stockholders. |
InternetNews
April 18, 2005
Roy Mark |
Senator Backs Tech on Stock Options Legislator feels stock options shouldn't be expensed at all. |
| CFO |
Full Disclosure Edmund Jenkins reflects on his leadership of FASB through difficult times... |
Salon.com
June 26, 2002
Damien Cave |
Foxes guarding the chicken coop President Bush's nominees to the agency that should have regulated Enron's derivatives trading instead helped write the rules that let the company do whatever it wanted in the first place. |
CFO
August 1, 2007
Kate O'Sullivan |
The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before. |
Investment Advisor
April 1, 2011
Melanie Waddell |
GOP's End Game in Nixing SEC Funds: Stopping Dodd-Frank Republicans' rehashing of supposed failures at the SEC is 'counter-productive,' says former Chairman Harvey Pitt |
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
October 7, 2004
Roy Mark |
Congress Still Hot on Tech Agenda The House and Senate are battling to session's end on new Internet access tax moratorium and blocking stock option expensing. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
InternetNews
July 20, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Votes to Block Stock Option Expensing The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation supported by the tech industry to pre-empt a proposed federal accounting regulation calling for corporations to deduct the cost of all employee stock options from their profits. |
FDIC FYI
July 24, 2002 |
Enhancing Financial Transparency Participants in the conference discussed the strengths and flaws inherent in the U.S. financial reporting process and suggested ways of modifying not only the reporting mechanism, but also the accounting standards that underlie financial statements, audit opinions, credit ratings and analyst reports. |
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
November 1, 2002 |
Excuses, Excuses Plus CFOs on the Move and "Same Stuff, Different Day." |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
The Supreme Court Spares Sarbanes-Oxley Fortunately, the Court appears to have upheld the spirit of accounting transparency for the good of investors. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Two Weeks in January The SEC put much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into effect by passing a slew of new rules. Here's what was proposed and what was disposed. |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Washington Watch: Financial Services Reform Finalized SEC gets fiduciary powers, but lack of self funding may pose trouble |
Investment Advisor
February 2009
Melanie Waddell |
Is Mary What the SEC Needs? The alternative to FINRA overseeing advisors, and what advisors would definitely prefer, is a self-regulatory organization. |
BusinessWeek
September 30, 2010
Jesse Westbrook |
The Accounting Board Is a Sinecure Qua Non Consumer advocates say the accounting oversight board's record is a cautionary tale for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Grim Reaper Visits EasyLink By all appearances, EasyLink is being hit for a minor offense. Not according to the SEC. |
Registered Rep.
July 1, 2005
Kristen French |
On-the-Job Therapy at the SEC After months of trying to fill the position, the SEC has hired a psychologist to work on the commission's flagging morale. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2005
S.J. Caplan |
7 Reasons to Bid Donaldson a Fond Adieu Investors should appreciate what was accomplished in the SEC chairman's tenure. |
IDB America
June 2001
Daniel Drosdoff |
What do you mean by "profitable"? Why Latin American companies and societies have much to gain from adopting a new set of international accounting standards |
Reason
January 2009
Veronique de Rugy |
Bush's Regulatory Kiss-Off Obama's assertions to the contrary, the 43rd president was the biggest regulator since Nixon. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Warning: This Corporation May Appear More Capable Than It Is In How Companies Lie: Why Enron is Just the Tip of the Iceberg, authors Elliott and Schroth stand firm in their conviction that this seemingly endless rash of corporate greed and stupidity at the highest levels is inexcusable and requires major structural changes in the business of business. |
Reason
January 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Is Deregulation to Blame? The new Washington consensus says "yes." The facts on the ground say something different. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
No More Mr. Nice Guy A new CFO survey suggests why new rules for auditors may be a wise idea. |
Salon.com
July 24, 2002 |
How to fix a broken economy Judging by his performance to date, President Bush can use all the help he can get. Here are some expert suggestions. |
| CFO |
What Must Be Done? The experts weigh in on how to prevent future Enrons... |
Registered Rep.
December 9, 2002
Will Leitch |
I'm From the Government. I'm Here to Help You The prevailing mindset at the somewhat sparsely attended Securities Industry Association seminar on corporate governance Thursday was not fear of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act -- but the SEC's interpretation of it |
Investment Advisor
August 2010
Melanie Waddell |
Will the States Be Able to Regulate Big RIAs? State regulators and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will meet soon to iron out the details of shifting nearly 4,000 advisors from federal to state supervision. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2002
David A. Gaffen |
Pitt to NASD, NYSE: Foul! The NASD and NYSE sued the California Judicial Council to stop new arbitration rules, claiming SEC oversight and federal law preempts separate state regulation. Harvey Pitt has ordered the organizations to empanel arbitrators to start handling the cases against brokers that have been piling up. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Oh, the Games Enron Played The Enron story is not simply a case of a lone company that played with fire and got burned. Enron was able to take enormous risks while keeping shareholders in the dark because it could exploit accounting loopholes for subsidiaries that are available to most publicly traded companies. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Ronald Fink |
Playing Favorites Why Alan Greenspan's Fed lets banks off easy on corporate fraud. |
BusinessWeek
January 23, 2006
Amy Borrus |
The Unlikely Hardnose At The SEC Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman Chris Cox wants all CEO pay revealed. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
BusinessWeek
July 28, 2003
Borrus & McNamee |
States vs. the SEC: What's All the Shouting for? On the surface, it looks like the fragile alliance between state and federal securities cops is crumbling. There's more -- and less -- going on here than meets the eye. |
CFO
September 1, 2003 |
Doing Time? Nearly 11 years after accounting irregularities came to light, a former CFO is heading to jail. Also: A new chief accountant at the SEC; CFOs on the move. |
BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
Dwyer & Borrus |
The Coming Mutual-Fund Reforms As mutual-fund abuses mount, regulators and lawmakers promise tough new rules. |
