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Board of Hard Knocks Activist shareholders, tougher rules, and anger over CEO pay have put directors on the hot seat. |
CFO December 1, 2011 Alix Stuart |
Smoothing the IPO Path A new SEC committee wants to help smaller companies find less costly ways to raise capital. |
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2006 Dees Stribling |
Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry. |
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2003 James B. Wright |
Governing REIT Compensation As recent well-publicized REIT proxy/management battles have demonstrated, REIT governance issues are no longer under the radar. In time, shareholder concerns (and any REIT vulnerabilities) relative to independent compensation decisions will also receive scrutiny. |
Knowledge@Wharton July 30, 2003 |
Has Sarbanes-Oxley Made a Dent in Corporate America's Armor? In the 12 months since it was signed by President Bush, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act has caused U.S. companies to spend heavily on compliance, altered the culture of boardrooms and boosted the business of firms that offer ethics and compliance consulting. To what end? |
Salon.com November 24, 1999 Larry Kanter |
Jim Clark In Silicon Valley -- where newness is next to godliness -- the smart money still bets on capitalism's most successful conceptual artist... |
CFO September 1, 2010 Sarah Johnson |
So Much for "Death by Committee" Audit committees have expanded their scope, and new rules may force them to broaden it even further. |
CFO March 17, 2003 Scott Leibs |
Under Pressure Sarbanes-Oxley is just one of many new regulatory requirements companies face. Can IT help? |
Real Estate Portfolio Jul/Aug 2004 Phillip Britt |
The Price of Being Public How small-cap REITs are handling the financial squeeze from Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations. |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2005 Jill Jusko |
Beefed Up Boards More diligent and accountable, today's directors are scrutinizing executive compensation like never before -- and changing the dynamic of the board-management relationship. |
Inc. September 2005 Amy Feldman |
What Does Sarbanes-Oxley Mean for Companies That Want to Go Public? Companies planning an IPO will face higher audit costs, higher insurance costs, and more regulatory-related duties for its staffers. |
Bank Director 2nd Quarter 2011 Naomi Snyder |
A New Mandate for Risk Management The financial crisis revealed serious risk management deficiencies throughout the banking industry, and now the feds are forcing boards to accept direct responsibility for the risks their institutions take. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 10, 2003 |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Readers respond: Legislation is a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior... Investors are always free to vote on the adequacy of a company's financial transparency with their dollars... The more transparency there is, the better... etc. |
The Motley Fool July 28, 2011 Dominguez & Esterhuizen |
Board Risk: List of Companies With Low Corporate Governance Risk Do you think these boards have shareholders' interests as a top priority? |
CIO May 15, 2006 Diann Daniel |
Regulation's Silver Lining John Hagerty, vice president of research with AMR, says regulatory mandates have put a new spotlight on IT as a means to mitigate business risk. |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 John Reeves |
Let's Fix Risk Committees Should we require corporate boards to establish risk committees? |
CFO October 1, 2006 Don Durfee |
Pay Dirt As the SEC shines a light on executive compensation, will companies clean up their acts or find new ways to hide excess? |
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. |
Reason January 2009 Brian Doherty |
Sarbanes-Oxley Revisited Recent academic studies of Sarbanes-Oxley have deepened our understanding of the law's effects. |
CFO September 1, 2003 Alix Nyberg |
Sticker Shock When Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, it didn't worry about how much it would cost companies. Today, CFOs are totting up the compliance bill -- and they don't like what they see. |
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 |
CFO November 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland |
Board Games Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 3, 2003 Jim Heskett |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? The collapse of companies like Enron and WorldCom cost investors tens of billions of dollars. But that amount may be dwarfed by the cost of conforming to new laws driven by those corporate scandals -- laws that are intended to protect investors. |
National Real Estate Investor January 1, 2003 Matt Valley Editor |
Sarbanes-Oxley is onerous What Corporate America needs is more integrity, not more due diligence and documentation. Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley consumes time that could be spent creating shareholder value and may encourage some public companies to go private. |
Inc. September 2005 Amy Feldman |
Surviving Sarbanes-Oxley A law intended to clean up big public companies has taken its toll on small private ones -- both financially and emotionally. But there may finally be relief in sight. |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2006 Jill Jusko |
Sarbanes-Oxley: Private Opportunity In Public Regulation With an eye toward the future, some closely held firms voluntarily adopt Sarbanes-Oxley Act principles. |
CIO May 15, 2003 Ben Worthen |
Your Risks and Responsibilities You may think the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation has nothing to do with you, the CIO. You'd be wrong. |
OCC Bulletin May 29, 2003 |
Application of Recent Corporate Governance Initiatives to Non-Public Banking Organizations A response to questions the agencies have received concerning whether they intend to require banking organizations to comply with the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or the proposed NYSE and NASDAQ listing standards if the banking organizations are not public companies or otherwise subject to the provisions through other laws. |
CFO June 16, 2003 Laton McCartney |
Nothing to Hide Eager to be more transparent, companies are using a range of technologies to communicate with shareholders. |
Bank Director 3rd Quarter 2010 Jack Milligan |
This Plate Runneth Over Audit committee members are taking hits from all sides these days. |