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September 12, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Ernst & Young Published Corporate Responsibility Governance Survey

By: Economic News

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September 12, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
New Survey By RevenueRecognition.com And IDC Finds 34% Of Companies At High Risk For Revenue Reporting Errors; Complex Business Models And Lack Of Automation Make Revenue Recognition Processes Vulnerable

By: Business Wire

 

A recent survey by RevenueRecognition.com and IDC of senior financial executives from 586 companies, found that companies rate revenue recognition accounting as having the greatest risk for errors and inaccuracies by a margin of...


September 12, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Current Executive Pay Model Is Fair And Crucial To The Health Of Industries


By: Targeted News Service
Targeted News Service

The CATO Institute issued the following news release:

The "pay-for-performance" model that determines executive pay is crucial for the viability of companies and the health of the U.S. economy, finds a study released by the Cato...


September 12, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
How Secrecy Undermines America's Security: A New Policy Brief In The Century Foundation's Agenda Series Calls For A Return To Transparency And Accountability In Government

By: Targeted News Service
Targeted News Service

 

The Century Foundation issued the following news release:

In the seven years since the September 11 terrorist attacks, there has been a dramatic escalation in federal government secrecy. This increase in information...


September 11, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
New Study Of 3,321 Smaller Public Companies Reveals Impact Of Sarbanes-Oxley Delays; Did Four Years Of SEC Delays Accomplish The Intended Purpose?


By: Business Wire

Lord & Benoit, a SOX research and consulting firm,just published "First Year SOX Results for Small Business: Benefits of the Delays,"abrand new study of all 3,321 smaller U.S. public non-accelerated filers with fiscal year-ends...


September 11, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
CEO Pay Packages Can Anger Stakeholders And Aggravate Employees, Say Experts; Article Reveals How Boards Of Directors Can Avoid CEO Compensation Controversies

By: Business Wire

 

Boards of directors feeling wary of granting large CEO compensation packages that could anger shareholders should craft them so they simultaneously align CEO performance measurement and its rewards with company financial...


September 11, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
First-of-a-Kind Study Reveals Nation's 25 Largest Institutional Investors' Views On Executive Compensation; Some Views Differ From Activists'; Confirms "reasoned Approach" To Policy Changes Needed; Pay For Performance, Role Of The Board And Need For Better


By: PR Newswire

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- A first-of-a-kind study commissioned by the Center On Executive Compensation to identify the perspectives of the nation's largest 25 institutional investors on executive compensation matters...


September 11, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Updating Compensation Plans For CEOs & Management Teams Of VC-Backed Companies Highlights Important New Changes To Compensation Structures And Specific Incentives

By: Business Wire

 

Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a627a0/updating_compensat ) has announced the addition of the "Updating Compensation Plans for CEOs & Management Teams of VC-Backed Companies" report to their...


September 11, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Verizon Business And IR Magazine Study Links Carbon Management, Corporate Social Responsibility With Shareholder Value


By: PR Newswire Europe

BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey, September 10 /PRNewswire/ --

- 87 Percent of Investor Relations Professionals Believe Communications Technology Helps Organizations Achieve Business and Environmental Goals

Eighty-seven percent of...


September 11, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
INSPECTOR'S REPORTS REVEAL GOVERNMENT TIES TO OIL INDUSTRY

By: US Fed News
US Fed News

 

The office of Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., issued the following news release:

The federal office that oversees offshore drilling is plagued by sordid ties to the oil industry, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson charged today, based on a...


September 10, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Reduction Of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Depends Critically On Productivity, The Conference Board Reports In New Analysis

By: PR Newswire

 

NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are not feasible without significant productivity growth and a transfer of technologies from advanced to emerging economies, concludes an analysis...


September 10, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Investor Lawsuits Surge Against Lenders

By: PR Newswire

 

DALLAS, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- An analysis of mortgage-related litigation and legal actions in the second quarter indicates active lawsuits filed by shareholders against mortgage firms jumped more than 50 percent from the...


September 9, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Research And Markets: A Company Profile Of Exxon Mobil Corporation: Providing An Analysis Across The Oil And Gas Value Chain

By: Business Wire

 

Research and Markets ( www.researchandmarkets.com/research/6fd28d/exxon_mobil_corpor ) has announced the addition of the "Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon) Analysis across The Oil and Gas Value Chain" company profile to...


September 9, 2008
Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Depends Critically on Productivity,

By: The Conference Board

Sept. 9, 2008 … Restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are not feasible without significant productivity growth and a transfer of technologies from advanced to emerging economies, concludes an analysis by The Conference...


September 9, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Research And Markets: Updating Compensation Plans For CEOs & Management Teams Of VC-Backed Companies Highlights Important New Changes To Compensation Structures And Specific Incentives

By: M2 PressWIRE

 

RDATE:10092008

Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/fe7f7d/updating_compensat) has announced the addition of the "Updating Compensation Plans for CEOs & Management Teams of VC-Backed...


September 8, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Www.companiesandmarkets.com: Green Mortgages - Assessing The Feasibility Of Success In The UK

By: M2 PressWIRE

 

RDATE:07092008

-www.companiesandmarkets.com adds new report: Green Mortgages - Assessing the Feasibility of Success in the UK

Introduction.

While green mortgages have been available from specialist providers for over ten years,...


September 8, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
SFC Takes New Name, Completes Green Study

By: Furniture Today
By Heath E. Combs

 

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The Sustainable Furniture Council has announced it will change its name to the Sustainable Furnishings Council better to reflect the diversity of its membership.

The group, which offers standards for product...


September 7, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
EXECUTIVE PAY HIT BY ECONOMIC DOWNTURN

By: Press Association Newsfile
Alan Jones, PA Industrial Correspondent

 

Pay rises for directors and senior company executives have fallen back in recent months because of the economic downturn, according to new research today.

 


September 5, 2008
China and India: Two Paths to Economic Power Economic Letter

By: Federal Reserve Bank Of Dallas

China and India: Two Paths to Economic Power Economic Letter

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. China and India have charted different courses to economic growth. So far, China's focus on goods has led to faster growth rates, but...


September 4, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Midmarket CEOs Increasing Investments In Global Growth, Social Responsibility And Customer Collaboration To Address Rapid Change Ahead

By: Market News Publishing

 

IBM CORP ("IBM-N") - Midmarket CEOs Increasing Investments in Global Growth, Social - Responsibility and Customer Collaboration to Address Rapid Change - Ahead IBM announced the midmarket findings from the IBM Global CEO Study,...


September 4, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Calvert Social Index Actions

By: Business Wire

 

The Calvert Social Research Department has submitted the following recommendation regarding action within the Calvert Social Index®. If approved by the Calvert Social Index Committee, the following recommendation will be...


September 3, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
ENVIRONMENT CARBON CLIMATE CHANGE TWO LAST LONDON

By: UNI (United News of India)
Report from UNI brought to you by HT Syndication.

 

WHERE THE MONEY GOES Some existing projects backed with money from unregulated or so-called voluntary carbon emissions trading have been accused of not delivering promised environmental and social benefits. Critics also say...


September 3, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
Ethical Corporation: Ford, Boots, And Kuoni Travel Reveal Their Carbon Reduction Strategies In A New Report

By: Business Wire

 

More companies find themselves hit by mandatory cap-and-trade carbon emissions schemes by national and regional government bodies.

Carbon markets are responding to the emerging schemes and adapting their products and services....


September 2, 2008
Lexis Nexis - AC
New Report On Pfizer Inc.

By: Market Wire

 

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Healthcare industry is available in its catalogue.

Pfizer Inc.: PharmaVitae...


September 1, 2008
Sustainability Policies Are Rare, According To Survey Of CFO And CPA Executives; AICPA-UNC Survey Finds That Most Companies Do Not Report On Sustainability


By: Ascribe Newswire

Very few companies have sustainability policies and most do not report on sustainability or corporate social responsibility, according to a survey of chief financial officers and senior-level executive CPAs by the American...


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