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Comment on - MARKETS; Merrill CEO Departs With $160 Million; His Compensation Receives Scrutiny After He Becomes A Casualty Of The Sub-prime Crisis

October 31, 2007

A few footnotes to the Merrill Lynch / O'Neal story...and CEO compensation in general... As founders and the founding families of today's giant, modern corporations -- the Merrills of Merrill Lynch, the Rockefellers of Standard...

Comment 1 on - SEC Requiring XBRL To Help All Investors Learn Firms' ABCs Financial Data Easier To Use The Technology Is Putting Complex Financial Reports Into An Interactive Format

October 31, 2007

Attention corporate executives -- don't shrug this off. XBRL is going to revolutionize accounting and corporate [financial] reporting. Standard dictionaries ("taxonomies") are in development by a number of cooperating agencies...

Comment on - Coke, Kellogg's Cop Bad Product Awards

October 30, 2007

So you take years, decades, centuries perhaps to build the brand, win the loyalty of customers, fine-tune the marketing and promotion, establish your distribution channels, and constantly perfect your business model. Then...

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