By: audit integrity
Preview : Total aggregate shareholder class action lawsuits have increased to a sizeable 111 cases through June 30 2008, up 63% over the prior year. Audit Integrity’s Accounting and Governance (AGR®) Rating and AGR Litigation...
By: Los Angeles Times
From Bloomberg News
Medicare overpaid for drugs that had generic versions because of a time lag in computing prices from when the cheaper medicines became available, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department's inspector general said.
By: PR Newswire
BOSTON, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- On Aug. 29, New Orleans will mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with a candlelight vigil in Jackson Square -- a powerful reminder of the impact that both natural and unnatural...
By: Conference Board
The Conference Board:The Conference Board Consumer Confidence IndexTM, which had improved moderately in July, made further gains in August. The Index now stands at 56.9 (1985=100), up from 51.9 in July. The Present Situation...
By: Los Angeles Times
Rich Connell, David Pierson, Times Staff Writers
Poverty across Southern California declined significantly during the first seven years of the decade, a period marked by a booming economy, gentrifying neighborhoods and soaring housing prices, according to census data released...
By: Investor's Business Daily
DAVID HOGBERG
The number of people in the U.S. without health coverage fell for the first time in seven years in 2007, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, but there was no change in the partisan divide over reform.
August 27, 2008
ECONOMY
By: Investor's Business Daily
Richmond Fed sees weak activity
The Richmond Fed's manufacturing index for the central Atlantic region was -16 in Aug., flat with July. The service sector revenues index was -6, a slower slide than July's -14.
By: Christian Science Monitor
Brad Knickerbocker
Writing a first-person book about the last big war in the midst of today's war can be tricky. It could attract older vets thinking back to their days in combat as well as younger readers whose interest is piqued by the fighting...
By: Buffalo News (New York)
By Jonathan D. Epstein - NEWS BUSINESS REPORTER
HSBC Bank USA suffered more than just a computer crash last week, some customers say: It also suffered damage to its image and reputation in their eyes.
As the U.S. bank slogged through its computer problems and recovery...
By: PR Newswire
ATLANTA, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Charity truly begins at home, according to a new survey. SunTrust Bank Private Wealth Management released a study that finds families play a vital role when business owners seek to match money...
By: PR Newswire
SADDLE BROOK, N.J., Aug. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In recent years several acronyms -- SOX, XBRL, IFRS -- have served to make the work lives of accountants more complicated, but what happens when the economy becomes the key driver of...
By: Business Wire
Small business owners' economic confidence rose for the second straight month in August, climbing away from a 22-month low in June as their concerns about the state of the overall economy improved. The Discover
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By: THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
MARIA HALKIAS, Staff Writer mhalkias@dallasnews.com
Online sales aren't growing as fast as last year.
Major retailers are reporting smaller sales gains from Internet shoppers this year than last year, and for the first time since the government has been measuring quarterly...
By: U.S. Newswire
"As the Baby Boom generation of corporate leaders and experts approaches retirement, businesses in the U.S., Canada, and many European nations face the loss of experience and knowledge on an unprecedented scale," says Diane...
By: Corporate Social Responsibility News
(CSRwire) SAN FRANCISCO - August 20, 2008 - For more than 20 years, the use of environmental, social and governance criteria (ESG) has gained traction among socially responsible investors, but multiple hurdles have kept this...
By: CSRWire
(CSRwire) WASHINGTON, DC. - August 19, 2008 - EcoAlign, a strategic marketing agency focused on energy and the environment, today released the results of the fourth EcoPinion Survey on what type of incentives or promotions will...
By: The Conference Board
A small but growing number of companies are demonstrating the impact HR policies can have in meeting overall business goals, according to a report by The Conference Board, the global business research and membership organization....
By: Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
By: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has released its third quarter Survey of Professional Forecasters, which reports participants' expectations for economic growth, inflation, and employment. In this survey, forecasters...
By: Global Fraud Report, Kroll
You have made a large acquisition after months of due diligence. Your own trusted people are overseeing operations, but earnings are not meeting projections. Then, an anonymous letter alerts you to a possible fraud. What should...
By: Business for Social Responsibility
Prepared for the Asia Business Council (Spring 2008)
The days when corporate social responsibility (CSR) was a concept and practice confined to North American and European companies are over.
By: Business for Social Responsibility
The topic of incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria as part of long-term company valuation by financial institutions has been entering mainstream debate in recent years. Although many mainstream...
By: Pluris Valuation Advisors LLC
Most Write-Downs Taken By Companies With Big 4 Auditors
By: Working Knowledge, Harvest Business School
Coordination, and the communication it implies, is central to the very existence of organizations. Despite their fundamental role in the purpose of organizations, scholars have little understanding of actual interaction patterns...
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