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Audit committees without accountants Title: Audit committees without accountants
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Filed in archive Accounting by leon on November 30, 2006

Companies might be taking their audit committees more seriously but there's still a long way to go, according to a new study.The number of accountants sitting on audit committees has more than...

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Spitzer slams SOX changes Title: Spitzer slams SOX changes
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Filed in archive SOX by leon on November 29, 2006

New York governor-elect Eliot Spitzer has attacked members of the Bush administration and business lobbyists for trying to roll back Sarbanes-Oxley.In an interview with the Financial Times, Spitzer...

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Oxfam slams Hong Kong garment industry Title: Oxfam slams Hong Kong garment industry
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Filed in archive Ethics by leon on November 29, 2006

The Hong Kong apparel industry has been given the thumbs down for its lack of accountability on labor standards and compliance.A report prepared by Oxfam Hong Kong, Transparency Report: How Hong Kong...

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How to beat identity fraud Title: How to beat identity fraud
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Filed in archive risk by leon on November 28, 2006

With identify fraud increasing at an alarming rate, it's worth checking out this timely piece Six ways to avoid identity theft.The piece is based largely on the Javelin Strategy and Research 2006...

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AWB fallout Title: AWB fallout
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Filed in archive corporate crime by leon on November 28, 2006

Australia's wheat trade is under the microscope and AWB's export monopoly is about to end following damning findings from the Cole inquiry into bribes paid to the Saddam Hussein regime using...

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Private equity bubble trouble Title: Private equity bubble trouble
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Filed in archive risk by leon on November 27, 2006

The private equity frenzy is starting to feel like the dot com bubble. Whenever I hear talk of new business paradigms, it's a case of deja vu. And the risks are getting bigger.One of the...

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Paulson and SOX: the backlash Title: Paulson and SOX: the backlash
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Filed in archive SOX by leon on November 27, 2006

With Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's Committee on Capital Markets Regulation due to report its findings on Sarbanes-Oxley this week, questions are now being raised whether a SOX rollback is a...

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Bush's kid brother and backdating Title: Bush's kid brother and backdating
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on November 25, 2006

Interesting connections coming out of the announcement by Houston-based HCC Insurance Holdings that it had been backdating stock option grants from 1995.The President's youngest brother Marvin...

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Execs don't trust their companies Title: Execs don't trust their companies
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Filed in archive risk by leon on November 24, 2006

Companies and governments are asking us to trust them when we hand over confidential information about ourselves.So it's hardly reassuring when we have a study conducted by Unisys in partnership...

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The problem with options Title: The problem with options
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on November 24, 2006

Good help is hard to find these days, particularly at the sharp edge of the business world where Zegna suits, seven figure base salaries and jammy incentives are all the go.Which makes the fuss...

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Corporate governance turkeys of the year Title: Corporate governance turkeys of the year
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Filed in archive corporate governance by leon on November 23, 2006

Yes, it's that time of year to nominate the biggest turkeys since last November.This year's list is extensive. There's no shortage of candidates so I thought better list them all and let...

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Milton Friedman and corporate social responsibility Title: Milton Friedman and corporate social responsibility
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Filed in archive Ethics by leon on November 23, 2006

The death last week of economist Milton Friedman has prompted plenty of comments about his attacks on corporate social responsibility.The social responsibility of business, Friedman famously said,...

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Going dark with corporate governance Title: Going dark with corporate governance
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Filed in archive corporate governance by leon on November 22, 2006

The costs of Sarbanes-Oxley has prompted some smaller companies to delist themselves from the stock market and "go dark''. Instead of pouring money into accounting and legal costs, they...

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How does Google stop turning evil? Pick a partner! Title: How does Google stop turning evil? Pick a partner!
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Filed in archive corporate reputation by leon on November 22, 2006

Google's extraordinary rise has continued with the company's shares rocketing past $500, turning its employees into millionaires and locking its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin into...

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Traders cash in on the Enron mystique Title: Traders cash in on the Enron mystique
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Filed in archive corporate crime by leon on November 21, 2006

Ken Lay's dead and his lieutenants are either in the slammer or heading there, but Enron's traders are doing very well, thank you very much. It seems that the second biggest bankruptcy in US...

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Vision of the bean counters Title: Vision of the bean counters
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Filed in archive Accounting by leon on November 20, 2006

Last week I wrote in this blog entry about how the world's six biggest accounting firms are now calling for changes that include replacing quarterly financial statements with real-time...

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Cox flags changes to SOX Title: Cox flags changes to SOX
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Filed in archive SOX by leon on November 20, 2006

Good news for start-ups with Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox flagging that some of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate compliance rules will be eased back. In particular Section...

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Backdating and lucky CEOs Title: Backdating and lucky CEOs
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Filed in archive executive pay by leon on November 18, 2006

So you think backdating stock options is legit?Check a new study which has found that hundreds of US company bosses inflated their pay by as much as 10 per cent by secretly backdating share options....

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Interview with Al Gore Title: Interview with Al Gore
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Filed in archive Ethics by leon on November 17, 2006

Al Gore was in Australia this week and I got the chance to catch up with him.He granted the interview on the strict condition that I was not to ask him the obvious question about his plans for...

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