Plenty of response to the House passing legislation that gives shareholders a non-binding say on executive compensation.In his Ideoblog, Professor Larry Ribstein describes it as an attempt to...

Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox has announced that the US and Europe will be working to a single accounting standard by 2009.But will there be glitches in the...

MBAs have reputations for chasing the dollar and status. And questions are being raised about business schools churning out graduates lacking in important skills like teamwork, or listening to...

The dog's breakfast that is German corporate governance continues.Just days after Siemens chairman Heinrich Von Pierer announced he was stepping down in the wake of investigations into bribery...

Interesting study from McKinsey showing a huge and troubling gap between how corporations and consumers see corporate social responsibility.The study The trust gap between consumers and corporations...

By a vote of 62-35, the US Senate has rejected an attempt to water down Sarbanes-Oxley.The move to neutralise Sarbox was done through the back door, in the form of an amendment put up Republican Jim...

In a world where more than 50 of the world's top economies are corporations, where Wal-Mart's GDP is bigger than Denmark's and where foot-loose capital and the rising power of...

It was a corporate spying scandal that led to congressional hearings and an enhanced state privacy law.But with the criminal case against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and three...

At the end of last year I looked at how the Fannie Mae scandal had turned into litigation city with the mortgage giant suing its auditor KPMG and regulators going for the group's former...

World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz is digging in for the fight. Wolfowitz is under pressure to quit with the investigation into the way his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, got a pay rise and promotion.A day...

Last year, the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia out out a paper Heating up the planet which has scenarios of weather extremes and wilder fluctuations in rainfall and temperatures transforming the...

Earlier this month I did a blog entry on the continuing BAE shenanigans following the Blair Government decision to drop its probe into BAE's dubious dealings with saudi arabia.The decision shows...

For the Apple-bashers hoping regulators would throw the book at Apple chief Steve Jobs over options backdating, better take a cold shower!!!Months into the federal probe of options backdating at...

Scam-meisters are now resorting to Sarbanes-Oxley.The financial accounting Standards Board (FASB) has put up a warning about companies getting calls from bogus salesman claiming they work for the...

Last week I did a blog entry looking at the debate surrounding Tim O'Reilly's proposal for a bloggers' code of conduct.After the uproar, O'Reilly has now come out and said he has...

Last week, we had the reports that the pressure was on Siemens chairman Heinrich von Pierer to step down, an issue I examined here. Von Pierer has finally bowed to the inevitable and announced he is...

In the lead up to the Blackstone initial public offering, The Wall Street Journal has a piece saying that it's shaping up as a test case of new fair-value accounting rules where profits can be...

So the regulators are rolling back Sarbanes-Oxley. What does that mean for investors long-term? And how much of of it should go?These are some of the issues examined in this piece Will the SEC...

Here's a Warning for anyone who thinks the typical fraud perpetrator is lower down in the food chain.Research from KPMG Forensic, reported here, shows that most fraudsters are male, typically...