Matt Kelly

This profile is the second in a series of weekly conversations with executives at U.S. public companies who are currently involved in establishing and developing compliance programs. An index of previous conversations is available here. What is the compliance structure at AGL Resources, and what duties do you have as chief compliance officer? Well, the […]

Today Compliance Week begins the first of an ongoing series of weekly conversations with executives at U.S. public companies who are currently involved in establishing and developing compliance programs. Our first conversation is with Jay Haberland, vice president of business controls at $30.7 billion United Technologies Corp., who describes the type of internal control testing […]

John Kenny, chief financial officer of Iron Mountain Corp. in Boston, makes it sound simple. The board of directors knew the company would have to start expensing stock options sooner or later—so in the summer of 2002, it decided on sooner. No consultants were hired. No new models were developed. Iron Mountain had long reported […]

Well, so much for the million-dollar secretary. That’s the consensus from accounting experts now that the Federal Accounting Standards Board has unveiled its proposal to require public companies to expense stock options. While businesses are likely to grumble about the rule and push Congress to abolish it before it becomes law in December, few people […]