This is Part One of a two-part series written by Miller and Bahnson. Part Two appeared in the May 18 edition of Compliance Week. On March 31, amid much fanfare—both cheers and jeers—the FASB finally issued its long-awaited exposure draft of a new standard that would mandate recognizing an expense when stock options are granted. […]
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39 Internal Control Disclosures In April
According to a review of regulatory filings during the month of April, 39 companies disclosed material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in internal controls, or provided updates on the status of their control-improvement processes. That number is up from 28 similar disclosures in March, 18 in February, and 23 in January. (See box at right for […]
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President Of $41.4b Dell Discusses Impact Of Legislation
Dell President and COO Kevin Rollins discussed the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley at an American Enterprise Institute event.
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$9.8b Nortel Replaces President, CFO And Controller
Out: DunnIn: Owens Canada-based telecommunications equipment company Nortel, currently the subject of a formal SEC investigation into its accounting practices, announced several top management changes last week, and noted it would restate 2003 earnings downward by 50 percent. According to a Nortel press release, President and CEO Frank Dunn, CFO Doug Beatty, and Controller Michael […]
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A Conversation With UTC’s VP Business Controls
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 […]
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Accidental Disclosure: Presentation Sent To Shareholders
Brady Last week, $2 billion Amvescap—one of the world’s largest mutual fund companies, and parent of the Invesco and AIM fund groups—inadvertently emailed a sensitive presentation to a group of investors. The presentation was sent in error. “I would stress that this was a work in progress,” noted executive chairman Charles Brady, “an internal document, […]
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Amended USSC Guidelines: Effective Compliance And Ethics Programs
Full text of the amendment modifying the provisions of Chapter Eight of the U.S. Sentencing Commission Organizational Sentencing Guidelines impacting “effective” compliance programs.
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D&O Insurance Crisis: Could The Worst Be Behind Us?
Is the D&O crisis over? Not yet, but the worst may be behind us—gone are those nightmarish high double-digit and triple-digit price increases. According to the widely-followed annual RIMS Benchmark Survey released a couple of weeks ago, in the first quarter of 2004 price increases in a number of lines of insurance, “most notably” directors […]
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Ex-Salomon CEO Joins Board Of $113b ChevronTexaco
Denham Oil and gas giant ChevronTexaco recently announced the addition of Robert Denham to its board of directors. Denham is a partner in the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson, and previously served as chairman and CEO of Salomon Inc. He was actually with MT&O for nearly two decades before joining Salomon, and then […]
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Foster Wheeler Names Governance, Compliance Officers
Fries Gardner $3.8 billion commercial construction company Foster Wheeler recently announced that vice president and secretary Lisa Fries Gardner would assume the additional role of chief governance officer. Fries Gardner will be responsible for implementing improvements in governance policies and practices, and will continue to oversee the company’s code of business conduct and ethics. The […]
