FDI pours into Indonesia
JAKARTA: Indonesia attracted a record US$5.9bil in foreign direct investment in the third quarter, signalling that South-East Asia's biggest economy remains a hot favourite despite a bleak global...
View ArticleBoardroom quotas: some issues
Issue one is about selection effects. Imagine - which shouldn't be hard - a world in which there are very few women directors.
View ArticleAmarantus BioSciences Improves Corporate Governance
Amarantus BioSciences, Inc. , a biotechnology company developing new treatments and diagnostics for Parkinson's disease and Traumatic Brain Injury centred on its proprietary anti-apoptosis therapeutic...
View ArticleAmarantus BioSciences Improves Corporate Governance
Updated corporate governance can be viewed at is at a critical stage in its development and the Board is taking the necessary steps to ensure that we enhance the shareholder value we have developed...
View ArticleWhy it Matters: Labor unions
In this Nov. 22, 2011 file photo, Joe Lubbers, left, and Rick McKee display a sign in front of the Statehouse before start of Organization Day in Indianapolis.
View ArticleWhy it Matters: Labor unions
The issue:A unionized job once meant a secure path to a middle-class life. Labor unions are still big political players, but they have seen a steady decline in membership and clout since their heyday...
View ArticleBP Directors on Rosneft's Board Barely Improve Its Corporate Governance
The UK oil giant BP Plc said that it agreed to sell its stake in TNK-BP to OAO Rosneft .
View ArticleMayor blasts finance probe
TORRES Strait Mayor Fred Gela has blasted the state's decision to send in a financial controller to look over his council's books as being an expensive waste of time.
View ArticleRivet Software Claims Sales Growth
Denver-based Rivet Software says it has been seeing an increase in its sales, claiming that its third quarter sales figures were 50 percent ahead of the same period last year.
View ArticleBanks' Good Governance Efforts Improving
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Deputy Governor Nestor A. Espenilla Jr. said that to sustain investors' interest in the Philippines, the financial sector among other industries, need to improve on areas of...
View ArticleTouchstone Elects As Budau As CFO
Budau received his bachelor of commerce with honors from McMaster University in 2002 and has his chartered accountant designation, which he received in 2005.
View ArticleConfidential Witness Hearings in SunTrust and Lockheed Martin Demonstrate...
Plaintiffs' lawyers are facing intense judicial scrutiny of problems with their use of "confidential witnesses" in the Lockheed Martin and SunTrust securities class actions.
View ArticleMcLaren in codes and standards driving seat
A QUICK GLANCE at the level of reforms, revisions, consultations and working papers pumped out by the FRC, and Melanie McLaren could be forgiven for thinking she had taken a job with the in-tray from...
View ArticleConference: Designed to swiftly immerse practitioners on best...
Unsettled times, increased oversight, and blurred boundaries only add to the complexity of governance, especially in global companies.
View ArticleGood Corporate Governance Apparently Does Some Good
We talked a while back about how "corporate governance" is a thing that exists more or less orthogonal to the thing that is "running your corporation as though you were a group of competent humans," as...
View ArticleIFAC and IVSC Renew Financial Reporting Collaboration
The International Federation of Accountants and the International Valuation Standards Council have renewed their memorandum of understanding and plan to strengthen their mutual efforts to improve...
View ArticlePatriot Coal Names Bennett K. Hatfield Chief Executive Officer
St. Louis, MO, October 24, 2012 - Irl F. Engelhardt to Step Down as Chairman and CEO Michael M. Scharf Appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors Patriot Also Announces Corporate Governance...
View ArticleAlma Media's financial reporting in 2013
Alma Media Corporation Stock Exchange Release October 25, 2012 at 14.15 ALMA MEDIA'S FINANCIAL REPORTING IN 2013 Alma Media Corporation will publish its financial reports in 2013 as follows: -...
View ArticleNEI Ethical Funds turns up the heat on excessive executive pay with...
On behalf of the NEI Ethical Funds family of socially responsible mutual funds, the ESG Services team at NEI Investments will focus engagement on the following key themes: reasonable executive...
View ArticleWill Regulatory Reform Trigger Doomsday for Captives?
If you're startled by this headline, you're not alone. Until recently, the words "reform" and "captive" were rarely used in the same sentence.
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