A changing world
Consolidation at the top end of the industry has led to major pressures on fees as the larger players jostle for position...
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Boardroom archive
Is my auditor capable?
Auditing firms came in for considerable criticism. Perhaps the most surprising result from the April survey is that 70 percent of...
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Brave new board
The recent onset of high-profile corporate scandals has left CEOs such as Hank Greenberg of AIG, Harry Stonecipher of Boeing...
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The paper mountain
Corporate secretaries and compliance and legal professionals seem to be disappearing under a mountain of forms and filings, and...
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Corporate directors don their green eyeshades
They succeeded admirably. According to executive search firm Spencer Stuart, last year S&P 500 companies identified 832 financial...
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Help for the little guy
It seems a simple goal – but achieving it will be far from simple. Opinion over special dispensations for smaller firms is widely...
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Will Sox lead to international firms de-listing?
It’s impossible to dismiss the evidence now, however. Just a few weeks ago European issuers very publicly presented their...
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Directors look for individual cover
Let’s say you are an outside director of a large company and you keep a close watch on corporate reporting, accounting standards...
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Majority rules
Director elections are under the microscope this proxy season with a small but influential group of companies testing the majority...
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Gray power
Aged 90, Appel is younger than former US President Gerald Ford, but he is due to retire from Citigroup in April. In fact, a recent...
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