Corporate Governance News

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.

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

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

The Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges against SafeNet Inc. for backdating of stock options and violations of Regulation G which governs non-GAAP financial measures such as EBITDA .

As if they needed more stress, organizations are facing evolving and increasingly stringent compliance regulations from the Payment Card Industry, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA and others.

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Compensation committee members should be worried, and that's a good thing, say investor activists who target excessive executive pay.

The largest U.S. businesses, law firms and business groups have stepped up their challenge to the "proxy access" rule, which would let certain shareholders use a company's board-election process to nominate directors opposed to management.

Lawyers representing two in-house IP counsel who got the boot after alleging securities fraud at their slot machine company netted a big jackpot Thursday from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which allowed them to continue their wrongful termination suit.

The Accounting Standards Board has taken the first definitive step towards the elimination of the UK's dominant financial language in a position paper which heralds the end of UK GAAP.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged former American International Group Chairman and CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and former Vice Chairman and CFO Howard Smith for their involvement in numerous improper accounting transactions that inflated AIG's reported financial results between 2000 and 2005.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged former American International Group Chairman and CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg and former Vice Chairman and CFO Howard Smith for their involvement in numerous improper accounting transactions that inflated AIG's reported financial results between 2000 and 2005.

The troubled Colonial Bancgroup announced this morning it faces a federal criminal investigation.

A global consulting company that rose from the ashes of the destroyed accounting firm Arthur Andersen is now facing a scandal of its own.

A global consulting company that rose from the ashes of the destroyed accounting firm Arthur Andersen is now facing a scandal of its own.

Why should CFOs worry? Their liability for signing off under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is one reason.

In one case, grant paperwork claimed 35 extra days of use for a wildland fire engine than district records supported, the audit report showed.

Residents of Ethandakukhanya in Piet Retief have gone on the rampage, burning tyres over allegations of financial mismanagement in the municipality, the SABC reported on Monday.

Constar International Inc. , a growth-oriented team focused company, is a $900 million+ leading manufacturer of plastic bottles for consumer marketing companies around the world, manufacturing a wide range of plastic bottles for food, beverage, personal care, household and industrial products.

Kana Software's second-largest investor cried foul Monday, alleging that its board of directors was acting unfairly "to hold an uncontested election in troubled times and in the face of stockholder dissatisfaction" in a complaint it filed seeking to postpone the Menlo Park company's annual meeting.