Corporate Governance News

Patrick Wood - Chairman, Member of Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee, Ex-Officio Member of Audit Committee, Ex-Officio Member of Compensation & Human Resources Committee and Ex-Officio Member of Finance & Commercial Oversight Committee I'd like to ask for our meeting to come to order.

Preliminary voting results collected prior to the meeting were announced at the close of the annual meeting.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted that latest update to the U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy for filing financial statements using Extensible Business Reporting Language, or XBRL.

Responsible for the financial reporting of all parish, school and cemetery funds.

No organization wants its problems announced to the whole world. In IT, when something goes wrong, our inclination is to tell the internal people who need to know while at the same time communicating our plan to resolve the problem.

On May 21, shareholders of JPMorgan Chase will have the opportunity to express their views of the Chairman/CEO of the mega-bank, and PR people have been filling the inboxes of every possible media outlet.

A divided U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would force federal securities regulators to conduct more economic analysis before adopting rules for Wall Street.

Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford said he doesn't believe corporate governance in Japan has changed at all in the past two years.

JPMorgan's annual meeting is on Tuesday. Among the various proxy items subject to a shareholder vote is a proposal to split Dimon's dual roles as CEO and chairman of the board of directors.

Jamie Dimon and the 10 other directors of JPMorgan Chase take the stage in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday, to face shareholders who can take comfort in a rising stock price and a prospering bank.

At the ICAEW conference on the future of UK GAAP, the profession was busy congratulating itself and the FRC on the completion of FRS 102.

Recent events strongly indicate that our government is broken and the need for reform urgent.

If you are reading this article, then there are high chances that you've already cleared the CFA Level I exam and have started your preparation for the CFA Level II .

Former independent senator Phillip Marshall was yesterday given the responsibility to take Caribbean Airlines into clearer skies.

Fraud fighters today face many of the same challenges as they did at the start of the last century, a leading investigator told accountants, academics and attorneys at the Fraud & Forensic Accounting Education Conference May 16 in Atlanta.

A divided U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a Republican-sponsored bill that would force federal securities regulators to conduct more economic analysis before adopting rules for Wall Street.

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has signed an agreement with Capital Bank LLC to improve its corporate governance practices, which will help boost its operational efficiency.

So much for accountability in corporate governance. According to the DMN 's Maria Halkas, every member of the J.C. Penney board that presided over the company's spectacular recent meltdown has been re-elected to his or her cushy post.

The University of SA has released new dates for exams which had to be postponed after the question papers were leaked, it said on Friday.

Under the terms of the agreement, Elliott will withdraw its slate of five director nominees and support the election of Hess' five new directors: John Krenicki Jr., Fredric Reynolds, William Schrader, Kevin Meyers and Mark Williams.