Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. Compliance Officers, General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries Toronto-based beverage company Cott Corp. has announced that four senior executives will be dismissed as part of the $1.7 billion company’s […]
Jaclyn Jaeger
Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal, enforcement, technology, and more. Prior to joining CW, she spent four years as a legal reporter for Lawyer’s Weekly. Jaclyn attended undergraduate school at St. Joseph’s College of Maine and graduate school at Emerson College, earning degrees in journalism.
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Audit Committee Communications; Hedges
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed guidance that aims to clarify the “shortcut method” of hedge accounting. Hedge accounting is governed primarily by Financial Accounting Standard No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, which in 1999 generally established that companies must report derivative instruments as assets or liabilities at fair […]
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Audit Committee Communications; Hedges
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued a proposed guidance that aims to clarify the “shortcut method” of hedge accounting. Hedge accounting is governed primarily by Financial Accounting Standard No. 133, Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, which in 1999 generally established that companies must report derivative instruments as assets or liabilities at fair […]
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Who’s Coming And Going In Governance
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. From The Regulators Spatt The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic Analysis, Chester Spatt, will leave the agency to return […]
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PerkWatch: Tax Planning, Physicals, Clubs
From exclusive “executive physicals” and club memberships to tax planning, home security systems, and car services, few limits exist when it comes to executive perks. While company aircraft use and Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans top the charts as the two most popular benefits among 250 large companies analyzed by Compliance Week, other favorites offered by […]
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Picking Your Poison Pills Around The World
Picking your poison” is taking on a whole new meaning in corporate governance these days. Poison pills—the controversial plans companies adopt to prevent hostile takeovers—are rising in popularity around the world even as they are becoming more rare in the United States, according to a report by the Institutional Shareholder Services. “Every country has a […]
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Who’s Coming And Going In Governance
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries Pillmore Eric Pillmore, head of corporate governance at manufacturing conglomerate Tyco International, is leaving the company after five years on the job. The […]
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What Frauds Are Prevalent, And Preventable
While government officials congratulate themselves for a job well done since establishing the Corporate Fraud Task Force five years ago, experts tell Compliance Week that institutional fraud is still a rampant problem. According to a corporate fraud report released in June by Oversight Systems, 76 percent of certified fraud examiners believe corporate deception has increased […]
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Despite Investor Dislike, SERPs Keep On Coming
If shareholders hope that the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new rules for disclosing executive compensation will bait companies into curbing Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans as an additional perk for executives, corporate boards are not biting. Yet. According to a Compliance Week analysis of perks offered by 250 large companies, SERPs are one of the most […]
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Who’s Coming And Going In Governance
Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger. Chief Accounting Officers, Controllers Ianotti Jacksonville, Fla.-based Rayonier has promoted Joseph Iannotti to corporate controller. Iannotti has served as assistant controller of financial reporting since joining Rayonier […]