Corporate governance report cards prove tricky
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A wave of business scandals in the  past few years has focused much more attention on how companies  are run, but even many investor watchdogs don't exactly agree  on how to assess corporate governance.
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Vulnerable areas of CPA funds spark questioning
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Stock options again The Verisign board has decided to restate more than four years worth of financial reports after an internal review found stock options may have made them unreliable.â¦
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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Enterprise software makers and the companies they serve have done much gnashing of teeth in the last year over meeting the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Sarbox). But Sarbox is only one of many regulatory challenges that organizations are struggling to meet, AMR Research's John Hagerty stresses.
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The news was a reminder of the difficulty banks are now facing in valuing complicated financial instruments.
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Thereâs something not quite kosher about some private equity dealings, or so it seems to me. But I could be wrong.
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This year the leaders of some of the worldâs most respected financial institutions have been caught either unaware or uninformed about giant risks their companies took.
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Investment banks are in the midst of  the annual fight for bragging rights as the biggest dealmakers  of the year, but this time the rankings -- a key factor in  winning new business -- are under intense scrutiny.
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Delay in annual earnings report blamed on the extra paperwork needed to comply with tougher U.S. accounting rules.
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Resisting the temptations of the mutual-fund performance chase isn't as easy as it may look.
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The revelations that a dysfunctional board spied on its members and on journalists still casts a shadow on a company that by most measures is performing well.
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One quarterly earnings report cannot make or break a company. Sure, it can provide a fair depiction of a company&#39;s current state of affairs, but by definition it is a backward-looking tool.
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WASHINGTON -- The corporate oversight board created amid the accounting scandals is encouraging people to come forward with information by making it easier for company employees and others to report tips and complaints.
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More than 10 months after moving  boldly to boost the power of U.S. shareholders in choosing  corporate directors, the Securities and Exchange Commission has  become mired in disagreement.
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It doesn&#39;t seem to matter when corporate directors get tangled in business scandals or are accused of sketchy oversight -- many still get to hold on to their jobs no matter what.
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Strange happenings from the investing and business world.