How bad is the relationship between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board? What are the tensions? Can they actually work together to protect the markets? Now we have insiders saying they hate each other.
SEC lawsuits have a negative impact on the share price. But are some violations worse than others? Is there a difference between litigation being settled with fines and without? What happens if it's just left pending? A study answers these questions.
Another sign that the Securities and Exchange Commission is pulling back from Sarbanes-Oxley. On Friday, the SEC announced that it's giving yet another delay to the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley to smaller public companies
Siemens faces a fine of 4 billion euros ($5.8 billion), a figure that would wipe out a full year's profit, after a probe by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Senior executives of German electronics and engineering group Siemens AG today met with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the bribery scandal at Siemens.
This week's extraordinary decision by the Securities and Exchange Commission to let companies deny shareholders access to annual proxy ballots is another victory for the bosses and companies like General Motors and Bank of America to block democracy.
Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
