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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
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, 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
February 1, 2007 |
Reform Effort Rebuked A report on capital-markets regulation stirs criticism... Coping with rising sick days... Replacing an unpopular auditing standard...etc. |
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
April 1, 2004 |
Bolting from the Big Four Smaller firms are picking up audit clients at the expense of the Big Four... Stock options fall out of favor... a proposal to synchronize accounting and tax reporting... analysts say good-bye to stock ratings... etc. |
CFO
September 1, 2007 |
Mend the GAAP Simplifying Financial Reporting... Prosecuting CFOs... Finding Board Members... Gaining Proxy Access... Regulating Rating Agencies... etc. |
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. |
CFO
June 1, 2009
Russ Banham |
Fray on Pay The battle over executive compensation and what it means for you. |
Financial Advisor
December 2009
Sherri Scordo |
Frontline News Financial sector news: Financial Services Overhaul Getting Closer... McCann Making Mark At UBS... Main Street Securities B-D Now With National Planning... Small B-Ds Could Face Large Audit Costs... more... |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2004
John Goff |
Who's the Boss? Spurred by a slew of portfolio-punishing accounting scandals and angered by decades of corporate indifference to their requests, shareholder activists want more say in how American companies are run. |
Bank Director
4th Quarter 2010
John R. Engen |
Welcome to the Great Unknown The ink is dry on Dodd-Frank, and now bank executives and board members are cracking open the 2,300-page rulebook to try to discern what it all means for the industry going forward. |
CFO
October 1, 2002 |
Reform: How the Corporate Landscape Is Changing Everyone from Congress to the journalist next door has a reform proposal to promote. This article assesses the likelihood of passage as well as the potential impact of several proposals. |
CFO
March 15, 2006 |
What's in Your Wallet? Full disclosure for CFO compensation... Catering to the Extremes... Fairness as an Option... Uneven Expansion... Basel II, Eurobanks 0... Do You Hear an Echo?... etc. |
CFO
August 1, 2004 |
Tax Reform Hold Up Congress battles over new corporate tax reform... Opinions on Offshoring... Safety Net or Deal Breaker?... Charitable Misgivings... California Dreamin'?... Tax Reform Hold Up... etc. |
CFO
April 1, 2006 |
States to Employers: Pay Up States press companies to provide employee health-care coverage... Taking Stock of SARs... Double the Fun... Total U.S. Tort Costs Continue to Climb... Pricier Premiums... Insuring the Books... Need More Time to File Taxes?... etc. |
CFO
March 1, 2005 |
Targeting Executive Pay The SEC sets its sights on exec comp... Restatements soared in 2004... Will Blockbuster's gamble on eliminating late fees pay off?... etc. |
CFO
August 1, 2005 |
Behind Shadow Accounts Shining a Light on Shadow Retirement Accounts... Congress Takes Aim at Underfunded Pensions... What States Are Doing to Alleviate the Health-Care Burden... Going Public in Canada... Out-of-Town Shareholder Meetings... etc. |
CFO
March 1, 2007 |
Standard vs. Practices The move to principles-based accounting raises concerns... Going for the Records... Six Stigma?... So Much for that Post-Enron Glow... Private Equity Attracts Public Scrutiny... Healthy Debates... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 9, 2004
Lucian A. Bebchuk |
Bring Shareholders into the Board Room How can we improve board performance? One way is by reducing the extent to which boards are insulated from, and unaccountable to, shareholders. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Nanette Byrnes |
Reform: Who's Making the Grade A performance review for CEOs, boards, analysts, and others |
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? |
Financial Advisor
December 2008
Janet Aschkenasy |
Who Discloses What? New regulations clarify the duties of qualified retirement plan fiduciaries and advisors. |
CFO
August 1, 2007 |
Chilling Thoughts The Chilling Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley... Extending Terrorism Insurance... Powering Your Company's Computers... etc. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
April 21, 2010 |
The Motley Fool's Testimony on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Empowerment Shareholders should have a bigger say in how companies are run. |
CFO
November 1, 2006 |
Please Don't Feed the Politicians Employee campaign contributions... Robots reading earnings releases... Health-care cost increases slow... Temporary accounting help... etc. |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2010
Joseph McCafferty |
Who's in Charge Here? Listening to shareholders is easy. Making sense of their concerns is not. |
CFO
March 1, 2005 |
Paradigm Shifts The 20 events that most altered the practice of corporate finance since CFO magazine first began reporting on it in 1985. |
CFO
September 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Standing on Principles In a world with more regulation than ever, can the accounting rulebook be thrown away? |
CFO
May 1, 2004
Roy Harris |
Raiding the Returns Hidden costs and high fees eat into 401(k) plan benefits. |
Knowledge@Wharton
May 21, 2003 |
Do Shareholders Have the Clout to Rein in Excessive Executive Pay? What can/should be done about extravagant pay packages for CEOs and other executives, which sometimes result in huge pay increases even while the stock is falling? |
CFO
May 1, 2005
Tim Reason |
Feeling the Pain Are the benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley worth the cost? Many companies are voicing their concerns to the SEC. The top complaint about 404 is that auditors must point out management's own assessment of internal controls. |
CFO
July 1, 2007 |
Cheap Talk or Deaf Ears? Whistleblower Woes... Marching to Different Drummers... A Toxic Mess... Do Companies Do Good Well?... Patents Bending... If It's Tuesday, This Must Be... etc. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2005
Bill Mann |
An Open Letter to CryptoLogic In an effort to open a dialogue with this stock pick about its compensation policies, the author sends this letter to the company's board of directors on the heels of a discussion he had with the company's director of communications. |
BusinessWeek
May 17, 2004
Capel et al. |
Europe's Old Ways Die Fast The two-year bear market, and a slew of homegrown corporate scandals, is spurring European shareholders to stand up for their rights. |
Bank Director
4th Quarter 2010
Kimberly Crowe |
2010 Director Compensation Review The results of the latest compensation survey offer an in-depth review of industry pay practices and reveal how the latest issues and trends in compensation are affecting banks and directors nationwide. |
BusinessWeek
June 14, 2004
Louis Lavelle |
Governance: Backlash In The Executive Suite Many in America's business community say reform is going too far, as activists dig in. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Dees Stribling |
Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry. |
CFO
April 1, 2009
Kate Plourd |
Stocks Down, Voices Raised Their sights fixed on executive compensation, shareholders seek a say on pay and pay-for-performance policies. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Dayana Yochim |
It's Time for a Shareholder Revolution The Shareholder Bill of Rights Act is the most prominent, widely publicized proposal on corporate governance to come out of this crisis. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Ronald Fink |
Other People's Money To encourage fund managers to act solely in the interests of shareholders, activists want their proxy votes disclosed. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Der Hovanesian et al. |
How to Fix the Mutual Funds Mess Hidden fees, lax boards, and now scandal. Here's what has to be done. |
BusinessWeek
November 17, 2003
David Henry |
Mutual Funds: Tossing Out The Rubber Stamp A new SEC rule that takes effect next year will require mutual funds to disclose how they vote on proxies for the stocks they own. The rule is intended to keep funds from siding with management to gain 401(k) business. How will this affect corporate governance? |
BusinessWeek
June 11, 2007
Jena McGregor |
Activist Investors Get More Respect Boards are listening, and shareholder proposals are making headway. |
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. |
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. |
