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Top 20 Praised Companies: Industry experts, 3,700 in fact, cast their votes to name the companies they most admire. [more]
For Better or for Worse: Executive Pay Model: If you ask corporate directors, the executive pay system is improving; if you ask institutional investors, it is not. [more]
Updates for FAF, FASB, and GASB: The Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) and its two standard setting boards, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), will undergo changes after a vote by FAF's board of trustees. [more]
Secrets of the Private Equity Masters: Despite the rising cost of debt, private equity is here to stay -- and for reasons that have nothing to do with commonly cited factors such as relative freedom from regulation. [more]
Bankers Predict Tougher Times Ahead: Bankers are pessimistic; fewer than one in 10 bankers is optimistic about the economy, according to a Grant Thornton LLP study on bank executives. [more]
How CEO Compensation Stoked the Subprime Flames: Poorly designed "incentive" pay packages that encouraged CEOs to off-load risk onto shareholders were a precipitating factor in the subprime crisis. [more]
Companies Reduce Travel Budgets as Economy Worsens: Employees are staying closer to home as companies’ travel budgets shrink. [more]
The Itch To Merge Now: Could it be -- an M&A boom in the midst of recession fears and a struggling economy? [more]
Financial Performance Management: Using Assets Wisely: Financial performance management (FPM) utilizes people, processes, information, and technology to effectively support strategic objectives. [more]
Executive Pay Disclosure Still Lacking: Less than a third of S&P 500 companies reveal targets or goals for executive compensation, despite SEC disclosure regulations to inform shareholders about pay and incentive programs. [more]
SEC Unveils XBRL Tool for Financials: If you want a glimpse of what extensible business reporting language (XBRL) can do for financial statements, look no further than the SEC's new Finance Explorer tool. [more]
How Green Is Your Supply Chain?: The pressure is on for businesses to demonstrate their commitment to meeting environmental challenges, and one critical area of scrutiny is the supply chain. [more]
Insurers Not Warming to Climate Risk: As environmental advocacy groups take global warming issues to the courts and demands for climate-risk disclosures escalate, companies need to integrate potential liabilities into their risk management programs. [more]
IBM Charts a Course for Cognos: Big Blue has announced an overarching strategy for its recent business intelligence acquisition, along with new integrated products, including solutions aimed at verticals such as banking, health care, and government. [more]
Can Global M&A Stage a Comeback?: The global mergers and acquisitions market stumbled badly at the end of last year as credit markets went into subprime shock worldwide. [more]
The Lure of Africa: Africa's economy is growing at 5 percent to 6 percent a year, despite the perceived risks of investing in this emerging market. [more]
Toward Better Reporting: A Talk with Robert Pozen: The SEC's Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting is scheduled to issue a report detailing its recommendations later this month. [more]
Court to Decide Whether Companies Have Minds: Can a company commit fraud even if none of its employees did? [more]
SEC and Emerging Markets' Regulators Join Forces: Brazil, China, South Africa, and South Korea attended the first Emerging Markets Conclave, hosted by the SEC, to collaborate on the growing securities markets' challenges. [more]
How Sustainability Improves the Bottom Line: Can financial and environmental performance work together to drive corporate growth? [more]