Sentences with phrase «corporate scandal»

Think of any global corporate scandal recently.

This is surprising given that these were the first major revisions to the disclosure rules since 1992 and that they squarely address the corporate scandal du jour — backdating of stock options.

In these days of corporate scandal, who can argue against full disclosure on financial statements?

Even if you ignore the nightmare that Volkswagen is enduring as it tries to restore customer trust and confidence amidst a salacious corporate scandal over diesel emissions, the company faces massive challenges ahead.

To make sense of the current wave of corporate scandal, you need to understand how the man in the gray flannel suit has been replaced by the imperial C.E.O..

It's easy to get boggled by the details of corporate scandal - insider loans, stock options, special - purpose entities, mark - to - market, round - tripping.

Even beyond being caught up in Operation Carwash — Brazil's largest corporate scandal — there is plenty of room for scrutiny at Eletrobras» upcoming meeting.

Bovespa — April 28, 2016 Brazil's largest corporate scandal in history may be about to take down the Brazilian president.

Nearly $ 40 billion was invested in risky leveraged buyouts in the USA, including 40 % of the amount used in the buyout of RJR Nabisco, which ended in the biggest corporate scandal in the USA at the time and became the topic of the book (and the film), «Barbarians at the Gate» (Watkins, 1994).

Surve hoped to eventually purchase a majority stake in the company, but in 2000 the company went under in the biggest corporate scandal in South African history.

«In today's climate of corporate scandal and public cynicism, Jay Conrad Levinson and Shel Horowitz provide a deep breath of fresh air.

«The question was asked: If we had a similar corporate scandal in Canada, would the RCMP have the capability to investigate effectively?»

The school's associate dean, Murali Chandrashekaran, says many business schools began re-evaluating after the corporate scandals of the early 2000s and the 2008 crisis.

A rash of corporate scandals over the past decade, from the sub-prime mortgage crisis to the BP oil spill, has produced a default skepticism, Jekielek notes.

But with the past year of corporate scandals bringing billion - dollar companies to their knees, most business owners are realizing that not having a handle on the company's financial inner workings can lead to disastrous consequences for companies both big and small.

I was writing in response to the corporate scandals that were going on.

Maximizing shareholder value had morphed into maximizing short - term value and this had led to the corporate scandals.

And with terror acts, corporate scandals and identity theft on the rise, trusting your gut as a basis to hire is simply unsafe.

At the same time, a series of corporate scandals; failures in the financial, housing, and insurance sectors; and taxpayer bailouts of mismanaged businesses have fostered consumer distrust and skepticism of marketers» messages.

Right from its opening sentence («One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit,») the book's message resonated with a public outraged by a rash of corporate scandals and feeling deceived by the failure of American forces to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Deborah quickly learned that her timing was not ideal, since shortly after she founded PROTECH she faced the dot com crash, technology led recession, corporate scandals and a stock market crash.

A civil war, two world wars and other conflicts, political upheavals, corporate scandals, energy crises, and a plethora of asset bubbles; despite all of this and more, American industry has prospered and the US equity market has delivered attractive long - term returns.

A spate of corporate scandals has spurred investors to push for ways to make it easier to replace board members, but such efforts don't always work out.

Corporate scandals in the United States have sensitized some corporations to the need to be responsible to the public.

Such demand has been prompted, in part, by corporate scandals and disasters including the tragic 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza in Bangladesh, which claimed more than 1,100 workers lives and injured many more.

In 2003, when Langone was chair of the New York Stock Exchange compensation committee, he personally approved a $ 140 million compensation package for NYSE CEO Richard Grasso — a «golden parachute» that came in the wake of major corporate scandals including Enron and WorldCom.

A meticulously researched and ably handled chronicle of one of the largest corporate scandals in American history.

The movie also delves into corporate scandals as they hide the truth of their corruption from the general public to save face and earn more profits or cover up accidents for insurance claims.

In light of recent corporate scandals, that desire probably won't diminish.

Many of the events in the corporate scandals investigated in the last few years came from events in the 1990s.

With corporate scandals, weak earnings and an uncertain economy, more and more IRA owners are seeking alternative investments.

Then our economy was hit by corporate scandals.

«W» inherited all of Clinton's corporate scandals; all of the chickens came home to roost in 2002 — e.g., Enron, Tyco International, Adelphia, Peregrine Systems, WorldCom, Arthur Anderson, Global Crossing... and then, the Sarbanes — Oxley Act of 2002 simply shot in the head all of the horses in the country that were pulling the load.

Blogging on the recent corporate scandals involving GC Ann Baskins at Hewlard - Packard (see this multi-part coverage at Alexander Simpson's Corporate Securities Law Blog) and the ouster of Bristol Myers» GC, Peter Henning concludes that «it can be mighty tough to be a general counsel these days.»

Are today's newest corporate scandals caused by added complexity of laws governing corporations and the increased criminalization of corporate conduct?

In - house legal departments are growing in importance for Japanese companies in the wake of a string of corporate scandals, pushing outside counsel to adapt

With Volkswagen reeling from one of the worst corporate scandals of our time, let's consider the same question asked of Enron and other similar debacles:...

Suddenly it seems that everyone in the e-discovery world is putting Enron's e-mail on display, offering the public a window into one of the most notorious corporate scandals of our times.

In response to a series of corporate scandals in recent years, the American Bar Association House of Delegates yesterday adopted new lawyer conduct rules based on three proposals submitted by the ABA Task Force on Corporate Responsibility.

He sees the Dodd - Frank Act as a reaction to corporate scandals in the U.S. and says cases here such as Nortel and Sino - Forest Corp. have helped cultivate the view that securities regulators in Canada need an enforcement boost.

Corporate scandals in recent years and the ensuing passage of Sarbanes - Oxley, Dodd - Frank and other compliance - based legislation have resulted in an exponential...

Exponentially intensified regulation — driven by persistent corporate scandals, loss of public confidence and political pressures on regulators — is shaping the current corporate landscape.

In the wake of the corporate scandals in the late 1990s and early 2000s involving misappropriation of resources, bribery, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, and other such shenanigans, there was a large public outcry on the part of shareholders, the media, the regulators, the government, and other community stakeholders asking «where were in - house counsel, were they asleep at the wheel?»

Recent corporate scandals, like Equifax's data breach and Volkswagen's emissions cheating, sent stock prices tumbling for a week or two before bottoming out.

So, for financial services employers, whose reputation may have been damaged by the 2008 financial crisis and a string of subsequent corporate scandals, fulfilling the Millennials» need to feel worthwhile is a challenge.

This accomplishment stands as «testament to the Bay Area's ability to overcome the calamities of the tech bust, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, corporate scandals, and, most recently, the Great Recession.»

The large corporate scandals of the early noughties have contributed to this shift in mindset.

The spate of corporate scandals and the financial crises that have plagued banks and other financial institutions in the United States have made CPAs more valuable.

It goes without saying in todays post-enron type corporate scandals that honesty and integrity is paramount — this is especially true in banking.

How does state capture, a record drought, several corporate scandals, and a new President affect property?