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- GAO slates SEC, again
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  The Government Accountability Office has slated the SEC for having shoddy internal controls and material weaknesses, yet again
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- Pay disclosures not good enough
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  Corporations are not really doing that well when it comes to explaining to investors how executives are compensated and what exactly they have to do to earn their bucks, says the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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- Ratings agencies get let off
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  The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced it’s clamping down on the ratings agencies in the wake of the subprime debacle. But a closer look at what the SEC will tell you that the new measures will do nothing to protect investors.
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- A greener SEC?
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  A coalition of interests, including investors are petitioning the Securities and Exchange Commission to force companies to come clean on pollution risks.
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- GAO slates SEC for being too slow
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  The Government Accountability office has slated the Securities and Exchange Commission for being too slow and still having a backlog of cases.
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- SEC charges accounting firms
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  The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged 69 accounting firms and individuals with violating Sarbanes-Oxley by failing by auditing public companies without registering with Public Company Accounting Oversight Board. Five years on, and you have to question how effective Sarbanes-Oxley is.
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- More heat on Siemens
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  The Siemens group might have new leadership but the bribery scandal is not going away with reports that that US Securities and Exchange Commission is now putting pressure on the German government to help its investigations into whether Siemens employees paid millions of euros in bribes to secure deals.
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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.
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