A parting shot
While some passed Paul Atkins’ comments off as ‘sour grapes’ – he has been a vocal opponent of proxy access – the SEC commissioner...
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Boardroom archive
How they do it at CFA Institute
As an educational association and voice of advocacy for investment professionals around the world, CFA Institute, which...
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Expanding universe
On September 4, 2008 a federal judge sanctioned Oracle for failing to preserve thousands of CEO Larry Ellison’s emails as well as...
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With a little help from your friends
Love it or loathe it, there’s no escaping the impact social networking has on business today. But new research provides evidence...
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A web of confusion
If any company should be happy with the SEC’s recent guidance on web disclosure of material information, it’s Sun Microsystems...
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A new look at costs
On June 5, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an exposure draft proposing amendments to Statement of Financial...
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What’s the big idea?
A new age of financial disclosure is dawning. Soon financial information about companies and mutual funds will be stored in a...
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Bridging the GAAP
Come January 1, 2011, every Canadian company is supposed to have switched its accounting from Canadian GAAP to international...
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Cleaning up the system
As the new managing director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG), Stephen Griggs is building upon the...
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Top of the heap
Governance and compliance excellence is becoming evermore difficult – and important – to achieve. Many significant changes have...
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