Because our electoral process and corporate reporting focus on pleasing us, the American voters, customers, citizens and investors.
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As a frequent reader of The Economist, I expect a more impartial and prudent approach to corporate reporting.
The term was coined in the 1950s, and originally was based on corporate reporting for environmental and consumer protection.
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Further, Deloitte highlighted new corporate reporting requirements on biodiversity in France and Sustainable Forestry Management ( SFM) highlighted new biodiversity investment opportunities in Africa.
The risks were still high, modern corporate reporting still a fantasy.
L. No. 107-204, 116 Stat. 745 (codified as amended in scattered sections of 11, 15, 18, 28, and 29 U.S.C.) (adds several additional lawyers of corporate reporting and ethics oversight).
The first kinds are those who use it for corporate sustainability reporting, and the others are for those that want to reduce cost through building energy efficiency.
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Although the GAAP system has been somewhat effective in enforcing a greater level of accountability and standardization within corporate financial reporting, the beneficial intentions of this process have become obfuscated.
What makes things more complex is, as I've discussed before, the varied nature of the agenda, ranging from high seas protection to universal access to clean energy to corporate sustainability reporting.
At present, corporate social responsibility reporting by firms in the US and elsewhere is largely a voluntary action.
Some unquestioning reference to this theory has crept into most reporting on corporate Japan of late.
They lack public firms' rigorous systems of corporate governance and financial reporting.
Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and Management unit at Harvard Business School, where he studies the political economy of corporate accountability and financial reporting.
Nearly halfway through the first-quarter earnings season, Corporate America is still reporting solid profits, with seven of every ten big companies hurdling over Wall Street's expectations.
These anemic job numbers stand in contrast to the steadily improving financial results and strengthened balance sheets that corporate America has been reporting, quarter after quarter.
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It's one of the oldest accounting scams around: Desperate executives book corporate revenue in a reporting period knowing that it doesn't meet the rules for revenue recognition.
This is the year in which a seismic change to the voluntary reporting system for corporate taxpayers is implemented.
All movers and shakers in Wall Street, corporate America, and my reporting.
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Am I completely agnostic about corporate governance, honest financial reporting, and management accountability?
Delegates will come together to agree on a core set of transparency principles, data elements, and a reporting framework for good corporate citizens.
In her role reporting to Phil Spencer, corporate vice president, Microsoft Studios, Tellem will oversee the launch of a newly created production studio in Los Angeles that will develop interactive and linear content for Xbox and other devices.
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Whether a similar rebound develops over the remaining two weeks of this April will obviously be driven in large part by how healthy corporate earnings and outlook are as this reporting season gets into high gear beginning next week.
Reporting into Phil Harrison, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (EMEA), the new studio's remit will be to develop a long-term business with Entertainment as a Service at its core, with a focus on Windows 8 tablet devices as the underlying technology and platforms as part of Microsoft Studios' continued expansion across the region.
Sure corporate earnings are positive with 70% of reporting companies beating Street estimates.
Understanding what methods of reporting misconduct are effective could help corporate management, government policy makers and accounting researchers to assess the effectiveness of their internal compliance programs.
Rowe expects more companies to create a confidential reporting office in the wake of recent corporate scandals.
How much time, and money, does Berkshire spend on corporate governance, in particular internal controls over financial reporting?
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Section 409 of their eponymous act, which is supposed to protect investors by making corporate disclosures more accurate and reliable, requires that reporting companies promptly disclose any material changes (say, the resignation of a top manager or the loss of an important customer) that might hamper their ability to deliver products or pay their bills.
There's again good, meaty corporate coverage in this issue, the result of dogged reporting and our writers' close familiarity with their subject matter.
In fact, 23 global hotel groups have recently come together to develop a protocol for measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of hotel stays and corporate meetings.
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