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- Shocker: Most Companies Take a Dim View of New Exec Pay Disclosure
- The Find: New rules governing the disclosure of executive pay went into effect last year, but these much-reviled changes are unlikely to affect C-suite compensation. The Source: Pearl Meyer & Partners' second annual "Proxies that Made the Grade" report. The Takeaway: PM&P asked...
- Blog posts 2008-04-17
- Five Nightmare Work Colleagues of the Silver Screen
- Everyone remembers the great tycoons immortalised on celluloid. Citizen Kane and Gordon Gecko are the fictional movers and shakers, who buy up or bring down business empires at a whim. What is less celebrated are the more recognisable characters in the workplace, some of them charming and...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Public Disclosures by Banks: Results of the 2001 Disclosure Survey
- This publication of the results of the 2001 disclosure survey is part of the sustained effort by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision the Committee to promote transparency and effective market discipline in the banking and capital markets. The report aims to provide an overview of the disclosure practices of...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- A Model For Disclosure Controls And Procedures Required By The Sarbanes-Oxley Legislation
- One of the most important problems being faced by public companies is the design and implementation of disclosure controls and procedures. The procedures can be evaluated by CEOs and CFOs with respect to annual and quarterly reports of the organization. The requirement of the disclosure control arose from provisions in...
- White papers 2002-09-19
- SEC Adopts Rules On Disclosure Of Nominating Committee Functions And Communications Between Security Holders And The Boards Of Directors
- The SEC adopted rules to improve the disclosure in proxy statements regarding the nominating committee processes of public companies and the ways by which security holders may communicate with directors at the companies in which they invest. The goal of the new rules is to enhance the transparency of the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Consumers and Credit Disclosures: Credit Cards and Credit Insurance
- This paper concludes that evaluating the direct effects of disclosure legislation like Truth in Lending on either consumer behavior or the functioning of the credit marketplace is never a simple matter because there are always competing explanations for observed phenomena. From consumer surveys over time, however, it seems likely that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Disclosure Standoff
- Banks shy away from disclosing too much financial information, but investor pressure and recent accounting scandals may force greater openness. A large company sees its stock dive when news breaks that it has been using complex derivative instruments to prop up earnings. Public disclosures aimed at calming the market only...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
- The article highlights an Act, which tries to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, and for other purposes. Some of the provisions discussed under this Act include: public company accounting oversight board, auditor independence, corporate responsibility, enhanced financial disclosures...
- White papers 2002-01-23
- SEC Announces More Sarbanes-Oxley Proposals
- This article explains about the rules proposed by SEC, which are to be implemented in the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. All the provision such as Section 401b regarding the disclosure of pro-forma financial information, Section 409 addressing current disclosure of material changes in financial condition, Section 401a concerning MD&A...
- White papers 2002-11-06
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 : Disclosure
- Article gives the details on the Disclosures of Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It focuses on Disclosure controls, disclosure committees, corrective disclosures etc. It discusses the strategies for effective disclosures. Disclosure generally refers to higher standard of accountability for "principal executive officersand principal financial officers or persons performing similar functions." It states that:...
- White papers 2002-10-25
- Sex Without Disclosure of Positive HIV Serostatus in a US Probability Sample of Persons Receiving Medical Care for HIV Infection
- This paper estimates the proportion of HIV-positive adults who have any sexual contact without disclosure and the proportion of their sexual partnerships that involve unprotected sex without disclosure. Overall, 42% of the gay or bisexual men, 19% of the heterosexual men, and 17% of all the women reported any sex...
- White papers 2004-09-23
- Investor Relation Internet Disclosure and the Cost of Equity Capital
- This paper makes a detailed content analysis of the investor relation section on the Web sites of US companies to gain insight into the type and amount of information provided to investors on corporate Web sites and to establish a measure of the Internet disclosure level. It finds that companies...
- White papers 2005-03-04
- Reg Changes Shift Flow Of Information On Fundings, Public Companies
- You may have noticed over the years that a fair amount of our information on fundings comes from PEHub via its access to paper filings from the SEC. The paper versions of the Form Ds, as PEHub's Dan Primack explains, weren't duplicated in online database EDGAR; PEHub, now part...
- External links 2008-11-26
- Reg Changes Shift Flow Of Information On Fundings, Public Companies
- You may have noticed over the years that a fair amount of our information on fundings comes from PEHub via its access to paper filings from the SEC. The paper versions of the Form Ds, as PEHub's Dan Primack explains, weren't duplicated in online database EDGAR; PEHub, now part...
- External links 2008-11-26
- Promissory Note And Statement Of Disclosure
- This is a template of promissory note and statement of disclosure. The promissory note shows the full amount due, including the number of installments agreed upon, and when each payment is due. This is a commonly used form, and it contains of the standard provisions of a promissory note. The...
- Tools & templates 2007-12-01
- Information Disclosure And Adverse Selection Explanations For IPO Underpricing
- Underpricing in IPOs Initial Public Offering is a significant cost of raising capital that theories purport arises from adverse selection at the IPO date. Disclosure is a tool firms can use to ameliorate adverse selection. This paper shows that greater disclosure frequency in the pre-IPO period is associated with lower...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Disclosing Discounts on Closed-End Loans
- Truth-in-Lending disclosures must be based on the legal obligation between the parties. This means the disclosures must reflect the lending agreement. A person has two options for disclosing discounts in his or her closed-end "Fed Box" disclosures: disclose the higher nondiscount rate or disclose the loan as a variable rate.
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Inevitable Disclosure: Dealing With Trade Secret Issues When Hiring a New Employee
- When an employee's career hangs in the balance, a person can expect a court to give very careful scrutiny to any claims of inevitable disclosure - and to be reluctant to act without substantial probability that an employee will not be able to function in a new job without making...
- White papers
- Disclosure of Fees and Charges in Managed Investments: Review of Current Australian Requirements and Options for Reform
- This report has been prepared at the request of ASIC as part of its ongoing commitment to ensure that the objectives of the Financial Services Reform Act 2001 ("FSRA") are achieved. The report focuses upon one aspect of disclosure - disclosure of fees and charges in Product Disclosure Statements ("PDSs")...
- White papers 2002-09-25
- The Effects of GAAP Regulation on Local Government Disclosure
- This report examines the effects of disclosure regulation on the production of financial report information by municipal managers. It presents and tests an economic model of the effects of regulation on incentives to disclose information. The tests compare disclosure levels of municipal governments in Michigan, which requires GAAP, with those...
- White papers 2000-08-01
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