Report: Room for Improvement in Corporate Governance
Five years after the beginning of the so-called Great Recession, and the gut-wrenching restructuring of scores of American industries and companies, less than half of senior professional restructuring...
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The Rolex Awards for Enterprise honour people who are trying to improve the lot of humanity and the place we call home.
View ArticleAutonomy's Former Execs "Welcome" FRC Investigation
Back in November 2012, HP announced its dismal quarterly results and blamed around $5 billion of its $8.8 billion impairment charge on "serious accounting improprieties, misrepresentations, and...
View ArticlePolarised demand forecast for S&T
Bellwether company Steel and Tube will be one of the first to report in the listed companies' financial reporting season this week, brokers expecting its profit to be up by between $6.6 million and...
View ArticleNew Companies Bill to usher in tranparency in CG
Bangalore, Feb 12 : New Companies Bill will usher in an era of greater transparency in Corporate Governance, experts attending a conference here today said.
View ArticleU.S. audit watchdog is in sequestration line of fire
The top U.S. audit watchdog could face steep cuts to its budget if Congress does not come to an agreement to avert "sequestration," even though the organization is a nonprofit that does not receive...
View ArticleInt'l watchdog FSB calls for tight corporate governance in banks
International watchdog the Financial Stability Board on Tuesday called for tightened corporate governance in the banking sector, saying such a step was needed to stem a culture of excessive risk taking.
View ArticleOxford given a clean audit
On Tuesday evening, the Oxford Board of Commissioners learned the city received a clean audit for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.
View ArticleAlberta College of Arts and Design needs to get financial reports in order,...
Auditor general Merwan Saher continues to paint an ugly picture of weak financial controls at the Alberta College of Arts and Design and some other post-secondary institutions around the province.
View ArticleWorkshop discusses on good corporate governance - Thursday, 14 February 2013...
A Swedish International Business Consultant said development of good corporate governance is a prerequisite to bring Ethiopian businesses to world standard and make them competitive at all levels.
View ArticleDell faces mutiny, stigma of management buyouts
Dell Inc.'s bold plan to go private is facing some pretty serious pushback, and some experts believe a proxy battle with shareholders is now a distinct possibility.
View ArticleOil in China: Smog and mirrors
FU CHENGYU has global ambitions. In 2005 he led CNOOC, a state-run Chinese energy giant, to make an audacious takeover bid for Unocal, an American oil-and-gas firm.
View ArticleDell's Strategy to Privatize Alarms Shareholders
The Dell research and development facility on in Santa Clara, California that was just recently opened in Oct, 2011.
View ArticleMavenlink Adds End-to-End Financial Reporting, Management Control
To work smarter there are many things companies can do to make employees more productive and efficient.
View ArticleCreditor Control Rights, Corporate Governance and Bond Performance:...
By studying bond performance of nonfinancial firms with both bank loan and public bonds from 1996 through 2008, I provide evidence that bondholders benefit from bank's influence over firm corporate...
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There are always two sides to every story, and the discontent that has recently been directed at the management of Tribal Councils Investment Group is no different.
View ArticleColumbia Law Blog Monitors Corporations, Capital Markets
Columbia Law School has established a new blog on corporations and capital markets.
View ArticlePutting the spotlight on Canada's governance professionals - CSCS...
Nominations can be submitted at www.excellenceingovernanceawards.org starting today, The CSCS EG Awards recognize the important contribution governance professionals make to the best practices that...
View ArticleHong Kong probes online identity card...
Hong Kong said Friday it is investigating an online database containing the identity card numbers of over 1,100 residents, including some of the city's tycoons, published to protest a proposed privacy...
View Article"Give Me A Break" - Keeping "Risk" Analysis Simple
Sometimes lawyers get a bad rap. We are always accused of making things more complicated in an attempt to protect our "guild" mentality.
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