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• Terrorism Worries Pushing Insurance Premiums Higher

  BNET - 2004-12-10

  CSC Associates LP, the partnership between Cousins Properties Inc. and C&S Premises that owns Midtown's Bank of America Plaza in Atlanta, paid $834,000 in 2003 for insurance coverage of the Southeast's tallest edifice, according to Cousins' annual filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That is up from $653,000 in...

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• Employers Need to Determine Obligations to Same-Sex Spouse

  BNET - 2004-06-11

  Many employers are concerned about the extension of benefits, such as health care, to same-sex spouses or domestic partners. Because most employee benefit plans, including health plans and retirements plans, are governed by federal law - the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ERISA - employers' obligations to provide benefits to...

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• Costly Medicine: Sarbanes-Oxley Changing Corporate Life

  BNET - 2003-08-08

  Over the years, Sarbanes-Oxley Act has proved to be an important formula for inducing transparency in the corporate sector. However, it is also proving to be a costly affair for companies that comply with the provisions of the Act. The Act requires companies to maintain financial reports depicting their expenses....

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• Expenses Soar Under Sarbanes-Oxley Act

  BNET - 2003-06-27

  Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires both CEOs and CFOs of public companies to annually certify the accuracy of their financial statements. The Act also states that the accounting procedures must be documented according to strict framework of the Act. The rule applies to most public companies regardless of their size....

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• Dealing With Details Crucial To Life With Sarbanes-Oxley

  BNET - 2003-05-09

  From the executive summary: ‘Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act establishes protections for whistleblowers that are employees who report incidents of fraud and theft occurring in the organization. Specifically, companies or individual officers may not discharge, demote, suspend, threaten, harass, or in any other manner discriminate against an employee who...

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• Accounting Firms Say Implications Of Sarbanes-Oxley Still Unfolding

  BNET - 2003-03-28

  From the executive summary: ‘Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires great diligence on the part of every corporation to ensure that their accounting practices are correct and their statements to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the public are accurate. The Act also requires an independent audit committee to oversee the aforesaid activity....

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• Terror-Insurance Cost May Go Up

  BNET - 2003-01-24

  Seattle has been ranked a second-tier terrorist target by a national property and liability risk rating agency. That means higher premiums for local property owners that either choose to pay for terrorism insurance or are required to do so by their lenders. While the city's risk of attack ranks well...

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• New law brings huge changes to corporate finances

  BNET - 2003-01-01

  This article is about the heightened scrutiny which is dictated by the federal Sarbanes-Oxley Act, passed in July as part of the fallout of financial scandals at Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc. Under the act, the chief executive officer and chief financial officer must personally certify that all financial statements...

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• Companies Ease Into Yoga To Beat Stress Of Sept. 11

  BNET - 2002-01-11

  The September 11 terrorist attacks left so many people asking for mercy and peace. As a result, the work related stress also took over the peoples' minds. Most people suffered severe stress bouts. Thus, most companies adopted various de-stressing methods to bring people back on track. Yoga and meditation exercises...

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• High Anxiety At Work

  BNET - 2001-11-09

  From the executive summary: ‘The recent terrorist attacks and a fickle economy are the wake-up calls businesses needed. The attacks brought the issue of workplace anxiety and its effect on productivity into focus. Experts, however, suggest that the emphasis on threat of terrorist attacks should not mask many other issues...

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