These recommendations include: A Simple Due Diligence Disclosure Document, Management Attestation, Standardized Financial Reporting Requirement, and Consistent Regulation of Financial Intermediaries.

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"While the specific document made public may be deemed by some as not particularly consequential, the disclosure of the document and nearly word-for-word disclosure of a confidential board conversation led to concerns that other information -- especially student information we have a duty to protect as private -- was at risk, " said a statement from Deans Michael D.

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An earlier dispute over document disclosure was decided in Deloitte's favour.

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But some details leaked out anyway, including the disclosure in one offering document that Facebook intends to go public or start reporting financial results by April 2012.

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The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission had referred the Megrahi case to the High Court, expressing a view that the non-disclosure to the defence of a particular document may have led to a miscarriage of justice.

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At its core, eSignature eliminates the burdensome process of receiving a document (a contract, non-disclosure agreement, or application, for example) in email, printing it out, signing it, scanning it back in, and returning it by email to the sender.

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