Will rotating accounting firms enhance audit quality?
As the economy wrestles to recover from a tumultuous period marked by corporate scandals, mortgage defaults, record unemployment...
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Regulatory & compliance archive
Wal-Mart shaken by Mexico bribery scandal
An investigative report by the New York Times has revealed a culture of corruption at one of Wal-Mart’s largest and most...
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Real estate investment risk in Asia and Latin America
Investing outside the US has always been seen as an effective way to diversify a company’s portfolio. When it comes to real estate...
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SEC update
The SEC has been a little bogged down implementing rules laid out in the Dodd-Frank legislation but in the coming year Troy...
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Final Dodd-Frank pay rules delayed
Everyone loves getting an extension on a looming deadline. In late January, p ublic companies got just such a reprieve when the...
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Challenges and promise in Canadian market
When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government rejected Anglo-Australian mining company BHP Billiton’s $39 billion...
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A new think tank to handle governance challenges
Corporate secretaries are always faced with multiple challenges simultaneously, and this year offers more hurdles than most. To...
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Webinar: governance professionals left in the dark about e-discovery costs
It is a common belief that e-discovery costs are high but how much do these products actually cost? For some c orporate...
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Trends to watch in e-discovery
Nearly every corporation will eventually be sued for some reason, and once that happens, companies will be forced to sort through...
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Former SEC general counsel to return Madoff funds
David Becker, a former general counsel of the SEC has agreed to pay $556,017 to settle claims over improperly cashing in on funds...
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