Corporate Governance News

I meant to get to this yesterday, but travel plans got in the way: Those regular Sarbox bashers forget that it is all about keeping management honest when it comes to accounting.

Editor's Note: In its 10-part series highlighting governmental rules and regulations associated with the management and storage of electronic communications, TMCnet recently published a story about the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure , a law that shifts the rules of discovery in legal proceeding to focus on procedures that will streamline evidence ...

"In the next century, a company will stand or fall on its values," Robert Hass, CEO of Levi Strauss was quoted to have said.

RTE is amongst the companies recognised for excellence in financial reporting at this year's Published Accounts Awards.

David Wilson, chief executive of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators , talks to ePolitix.com at the ICSA Hermes Transparency in Governance awards.

From the marbled corridors of Congress to the tony salons of Georgetown, liberal lawmakers are abuzz with ideas on how to rein in U.S. corporations.

This is not a surprise considering the continued decline of Rhapsody music service in the face of lots of new competition and the general malaise in the digital music market: MTV and RealNetworks are talking about restructuring their Rhapsody America music JV, according to an SEC filing just filed by RNWK.

What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is known as the Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act and the Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act in the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively.

A CORPORATE Governance Council, comprising members from the private and public sectors, will be set up to promote a high standard of corporate governance in companies listed in Singapore so as to maintain and enhance investors' confidence.

The new RailAmerica Vice President & Corporate Controller will be responsible for leading the Company's accounting, financial reporting and controls processes .

The Securities and Exchange Commission has six "significant deficiencies" that prevented it from having effective internal controls over its financial reporting as of Sept.

Federal officials are stepping up their use of "clawbacks" to recover executive pay for company performances that proved illusory, filing their second case in four months against a company CEO who was not accused of individual misconduct.

But some accounting experts despair over a resulting lack of checks on management's assessment of internal controls of financial reporting.

If there was one federal agency you'd expect to get its financial statements right, it's the Securities and Exchange Commission .

The death of Sergei Magnitsky, a 37-year old father of two, is set to reignite concerns about investing and doing business in Russia.

The decision about whether the nation's corporations should report under international accounting standards has foundered amid a change of Presidents and a corresponding change of leadership at the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Federal regulators have notified Beazer Homes USA Inc. that its top executive could face civil charges over incentive compensation.

Dan O'Connor's appointment to the top job at AIB raises questions about the government's commitment to good corporate governance, writes Jon Ihle New AIB executive chairman Dan O'Connor: a compromise choice that, from a corporate governance standpoint, is a bad choice The appointment of AIB chairman Dan O'Connor as the bank's executive chair ...

Chief executives in 35 of the top Fortune 500 companies were overpaid by about 129 times their "ideal salaries" in 2008, according to a new type of theoretical analysis proposed by a Purdue University researcher to determine fair CEO compensation.

After millions of dollars spent, uncountable hours of high-power legal input wasted, and years of bureaucratic sturm und drang, Canada's securities regulators yesterday finally walked away from their doomed plan to massively overhaul corporate governance in Canada.