Stock holders are in a fighting mood. Hedge funds, trade unions, and shareholder activists are putting US corporations under increasing heat, according to the latest research from proxy firm...

Interesting piece in the New Yorker by James Surowieki looking at the impact of fraud on the broader economy. Surowieki make the very good point that it's not just the people who are ripped off...

How does email put a company at risk? In many ways, says Missouri-based IT lawyer Dennis Kennedy. Writing in the Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, Kennedy argues that personal emails at work (and...

US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox has told the American Institute of CPAs conference that the complexity of the accounting system was partly to blame for corporate...

The latest figures show that Sarbanes Oxley regulations made 2005 a big year for e-business, and that this will continue in 2006. But what impact will that have that on markets and other investment?...

Warnings from the 9/11 Commission members that the US is at great risk of more attacks raises serious questions about whether the Government has learned from mistakes. But it's also a reminder...

Will Sarbanes-Oxley change the way corporations deal with the world? The jury is still out on that one.Ventana Research raised questions about its effectiveness following last month's indictment...

A sobering piece in the Sunday Times about how much accountants are cleaning up from Sarbanes-Oxley and IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards). Audit fees of the Big Four -...

What role does philosophy have in business? Plenty, according to the Norwegian Government's Petroleum Fund which has has just hired professional philosopher and author Henrik Syse to work out...

Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal about how distressed power producer Calpine's pending bankruptcy is highlighting the growing clout of hedge hunds to force changes in corporate...

Are we entering a new Guilded Age? The M&A boom has resulted in the explosion of merger-related payouts where CEOs get huge windfalls when there's a takeover.This raises the obvious question...

Globally, the 45 per cent of companies reporting fraud now is up 8 percentage points on two years ago, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Economic Crime Survey for 2005. Here's the...