Former TheStreet editor settles SEC insider trading case
A former senior editor at TheStreet Inc has agreed to pay $10,225 to resolve claims he participated in an insider trading ring involving a group of high school friends, the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
View ArticleFormer SEC Chair Cox Declares IFRS a oeBereft of Lifea
The former chairman of the SEC declares that full-scale adoption of IFRS in the United States is no longer possible, but his European counterparts disagree.
View ArticleDermod Travis: Financial reporting season opens at city halls across B.C.
Depending upon your perspective, they're either a veritable treasure trove of news stories or a minefield of PR disasters waiting to happen.
View ArticleBest Of Breed Part 3: Energy And Materials
I look at the holdings of the Energy SPDR and the Materials SPDR to find the "best-of-breed" stock in each sector.
View ArticleForbes receives award for financial reports
City of Sterling Finance Director Deb Forbes was recognized Tuesday night with a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting.
View ArticleForbes receives award for financial reports
City of Sterling Finance Director Deb Forbes was recognized Tuesday night with a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting.
View ArticleEthics push higher up the governance agenda
How to uphold ethical values in a competitive environment is high on everyone's agendas at the moment and the main talking point at ICSA's inaugural Isle of Man Corporate Governance Conference at the...
View ArticleSolarWinds Asks: If Advanced Security Threats Affect Organizations of ...
With this latest release, SolarWinds provides advanced security insight through real-time File Integrity Monitoring , which helps to actively detect advanced persistent threats, insider abuse and helps...
View ArticleAudit Regulator Rebukes Ernst & Young
The U.S. government's audit regulator has rebuked Ernst & Young LLP by making public some of its previously secret criticisms of the Big Four accounting firm's quality controls.
View ArticleLeading Corporate Governance Research Firm, ISS, Endorses Management of...
The ISS report analysed that a dissident group is trying to take control of the board and change the management but that there is "no compelling case why change is needed."
View ArticleGenerali agrees to quit shareholder pact in Telecom Italia's top investor
Insurer Generali kicked off the dismantling of a shareholder agreement in Telecom Italia's top investor Telco by exercising an option to leave the pact early.
View ArticleNorth Sea Energy Announces the Results of its Annual and General...
The shareholders re-appointed Grant Thornton Chartered Accountants as the Company's auditor for the ensuing year and authorized the directors to fix the auditors' remuneration.
View ArticleBrian Steenhard Promoted to CFO of Aventine Renewable Energy
Steenhard joined the company in January 2013 with responsibility for financial reporting, budget and forecast modeling, strategic turnaround business initiatives, and providing commodity-hedging...
View ArticleTwo Groundbreaking Academic Mergers & Acquisitions Studies Win IRRC...
Two academic research papers that promise to spark new scrutiny of corporate actions such as mergers and acquisitions have won the prestigious Investor Responsibility Research Center Institute annual...
View ArticleFASB Revises Accounting Standards for Repo Agreements
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released a new accounting standard to address some of the problems with financial reporting on repurchase agreements, such as those that contributed to the...
View ArticleRio Alto Announces Resignation of Director
Dr. Norwich has been a director of Rio Alto since its inception in June 2009 and most recently served on the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee and the Audit Committee.
View ArticleDelaware Supreme Court Justice Jack B. Jacobs to Join Sidley Austin LLP
He will be a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions transactional and litigation practices, as well as the Corporate Governance practice.
View ArticleAsk the Research Team
NACD's ExpresSource Service offers our members complimentary, on-demand access to our independent research team for answers to pressing corporate governance and board leadership questions.
View ArticleMaire Tecnimont S.P.a. - Decisions on Corporate Governance
The Board has also supplemented its internal Committees as follows: the has been drawn from the majority slate to take over as Regular Auditor and shall remain in office until the next shareholders'...
View ArticleSudbury Receives Certificate of Achievement in Financial Reporting
The Government Finance Officers Association announced recently that the Town of Sudbury has been awarded for its comprehensive annual financial report.
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