September 12, 2008

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...

February 12, 2007

New York Stock Exchange Regulation

NYSE Regulation, Inc., was created as a result of the merger between the New York Stock Exchange and Archipelago Holdings, Inc. The merger formed a single, publicly traded holding company named NYSE Group, Inc. That company is...

February 12, 2007

Public Affairs Council

Launched in 1954 at the urging of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Public Affairs Council has a longstanding reputation for anticipating public affairs professionals' needs. Thousands of member-company employees take advantage...

February 12, 2007

Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

Section 105 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 grants the PCAOB broad investigative and disciplinary authority over registered public accounting firms and persons associated with such firms. To implement this authority, Section...

February 12, 2007

Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals

The Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, Inc. (the "Society"), founded in 1946 as the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, has over 3,800 members representing approximately 2,600 companies. Its...

February 12, 2007

Standard & Poor’s

Standard & Poor’s is a leading provider of financial market intelligence. The world’s foremost source of credit ratings, indices, investment research, risk evaluation and data, Standard & Poor’s provides financial decision-makers...

October 26, 2006

The Center for the Study of Fiduciary Capitalism (CSFC)- Saint Mary's College of California

In the United States the growth of large institutional investors (public and cooperative pension funds; corporate and union pension funds; mutual funds and bank trusts) over the last 25 years has concentrated a substantial...

October 26, 2006

The Conference Board - Corporate Governance Program

Since 1993, the Corporate Governance program at The Conference Board has helped corporations develop strong core principals by improving their governance processes through a variety of programs including director training and...

February 12, 2007

The Conference Board, Inc.

The Conference Board was born out of a crisis in industry in 1916. Declining public confidence in business and rising labor unrest had become severe threats to economic growth and stability.

October 26, 2006

The Corporate Library

The Corporate Library (TCL) is the leading independent source for U.S. corporate governance and executive & director compensation information and analysis. Board Analyst, TCL's premier product line of internet-based tools, offers...