Have just finished reading Supercapitalism by Robert Reich, former US president bill clinton's Secretary of Labor. Reich will always be known as the liberal outsider in what tried presenting...

A few years ago, carbon trading was seen as a niche business. Not any more. There is now a growing recognition that it is set to become the world's biggest commodity market. Potentially, it could...

So Bear Stearns shares are up after it was revealed that China Citic Group wants to buy a stake in the troubled US investment bank. Let's forget for a moment about the flawed business models that...

Internal audit teams are being stretched more than ever and they are having trouble finding the right people to fill the gaps, according to a new report.Ernst & Young's Global Internal Audit...

The rule of thumb with risky investment is that it cuts both ways. The present new opportunities for big gains but there is also the danger of being wiped out. It applies to all sorts of financial...

Loading up CEOs with options leads to riskier performance, according to new research.A study, Swinging for the fences: the effects of CEO stock options on company risk-taking and performance , found...

Earlier this year, I looked at some of the problems the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board has doing its job.These include, for example, the amount of time that passes between the PCAOB...

How hard is it for companies to use their action on climate change to win over consumers? Just about impossible, if new research from The Climate Group is anything to by.Research of consumer...

When ethics scandals hit, it tends to be the fault of certain individuals inside the organization. More often than not, they have allowed their own personal values to infect the organization.So how...

How can we tell whether a company will keep innovating? Check the language of the CEO, according to a new study.In their paper, Managing the Future: CEO Attention and Innovation Outcomes, the...

Earlier this month, I looked at Judge Lewis Kaplan raising important questions about the way the US Government was abusing its powers in the prosecution of alleged wrongdoers. Kaplan made...

Last year I raised the question: Is Sarbanes-Oxley choking innovation?. The fundamental issue here is whether SOX is encouraging inaction over action and paralysis by analysis.Added to this debate is...

The good news is that over the last decade, more than 50 per cent of accounting graduates have been female. The bad news is that they are not moving into senior level position at the same rate as...

Corporations are not really doing that well when it comes to explaining to investors how executives are compensated and what exactly they have to do to earn their bucks, says the Securities and...

Sarbanes-Oxley has limited impact because its penalties are relatively weak when compared to other statutes, says Lisa Nicholson, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Louisville.In her...

Early last year, i did a blog entry looking at the views Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Professor Yossi Sheffi. He argued that many companies struggle with risk management because...

The pompous greed-head might be facing decades in jail, he might be barred from returning to the country of his birth, but convicted crook Conrad Black has shown he has an extraordinary ability to...

Do one or two of your employees have very close relationships with vendors? Do any key employees have outside business interests that might conflict with their job duties? Do any appear to dominate...

Will they recommend changes to Sarbanes-Oxley or not?That's the million dollar question with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson announcing the make-up of the Treasury Advisory Committee on the...

Interesting take from the global spin merchants at the Brunswick Group on how to deal with shareholder activists.As detailed by Alan Rappeport in CFO.com, the group has provided 10 tips for handling...