PCAOB Exposes Further Problems with Ernst & Young Audits
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has made public previously confidential quality control criticisms from its 2009 inspection of Ernst & Young LLP after finding that the firm failed to...
View ArticleDealBook: An Agreement Opens Some Chinese Audit Papers to the U.S.
Accounting regulators in the United States and China announced on Friday in Beijing that they had reached an understanding that could give American fraud investigators access to work papers of Chinese...
View ArticleViamedia Names Chad Dobson Corporate Controller
In this position, he will oversee all the company's accounting-related functions and work directly with the Chief Financial Officer to continue to enhance the organization's financial platform.
View ArticleDemetriou backs Hird to stay on
AFL boss Andrew Demetriou says James Hird is entitled to remain Essendon coach while the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority's probe into the club continues.
View ArticleStudy: Company CEOs Very Poor At Dealing With Employees
A new study finds that company CEOs have poor people management and have difficulty engaging their board and co-workers in even the most basic ways.
View ArticleUrban Outfitters to Appoint CEO's Wife to Board, Diminishing Diversity and...
"When corporate governance operates optimally, the three key players-the executives, the board of directors, and the shareholders-provide through a system of checks and balances a system for a...
View ArticleExperts see Lafley as temporary solution
Analysts and corporate governance experts like the choice of A.G. Lafley to replace CEO Bob McDonald, but they don't think he'll be in the job a long time.
View ArticleBancorpSouth names new officers
BancorpSouth Inc. has promoted Jeannie McNinch to senior vice president and controller and Will Fisackerly to senior vice president and director of corporate finance.
View ArticleNBK Capital completes successful exit of DunyaGoz ophthalmology hospital chain
NBK Capital announced the successful sale of its equity stake in DunyaGoz, Turkey's largest ophthalmology hospital chain, to the founding shareholder.
View ArticleCEO pay climbs to new highs
CEO pay has been going in one direction for the past three years: up. The head of a typical large public company made $9.7 million in 2012, a 6.5 percent increase from a year earlier that was aided by...
View ArticleUniversity Mourns Longtime Management Professor
RICHARDSON, Texas, May 23 -- The University of Texas-Dallas issued the following news release: Dr.
View ArticleNYC Comptroller Calls For Cablevision's "Zombie Directors" To Resign
The term "zombie director" refers to a board member who's elected without the support of a majority of the shareholder votes - and their existance infuriates corporate governance watchdogs.
View ArticleChina, US agree to share audit details
China's securities watchdog announced on Friday that a memorandum of understanding has been signed with the United States on the sharing of audit details on Chinese companies listed in the US, in a...
View ArticleCalSTRS flexes its muscles as a shareholder
CalSTRS has been making waves on Wall Street lately, taking a more aggressive stance with corporations while grabbing a bit of the spotlight from its big brother CalPERS.
View ArticleBusiness notebook: 5/26
He is an executive with London-based BBM Energy and has a background in investment banking, international finance, and corporate governance.
View ArticleSun Herald | Editorial: Facts about Kemper plant should be fully disclosed
The unfolding story about Mississippi Power Company's reporting of cost overruns at the company's multibillion-dollar power plant in Kemper County to the Mississippi Public Service Commission is both...
View ArticleMahindra Group - * a global company with ...
In the last few years it has become clear that the globe's economic center of gravity is shifting toward Asia.
View ArticleUK is lagging in fight to curb the fat cats, think-tank warns
The think-tank the High Pay Centre has criticised the UK for rejecting measures introduced elsewhere in the world, claiming that only giving shareholders a vote on pay is not enough by itself.
View ArticleIndependent chairmen not so popular in 2013
The May 21 vote on the proposal at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. received 32.2% of the vote, down from 40% in favor for a similar proposal last year.
View ArticleNew Market Study Published: Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP - Medical...
Its strength include business litigation, corporate matters , commercial real estate, bankruptcy and restructuring, intellectual property, international law, labor and employment and employee benefits...
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