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The perks that ate infoGROUP …

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

One key principle here at footnoted is that the small stuff does matter. Look no further than Vinod Gupta, who, yesterday evening, became the Securities and Exchange Commission’s poster child for perks run amok.
Of course, in Gupta’s case, the little stuff turned out not to be so little, as the SEC tells it. We’ll spoil [...]

Will proxies come earlier this year?

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Yesterday, by a 4 to 1 vote, the SEC approved a series of changes to the way companies have to disclose compensation. For those of us who already bemoan a 20-plus page Compensation Discussion and Analysis section that often says next-to-nothing, but takes a lot of words to do so, here’s hope that the new [...]

The Supremes and Sarbanes-Oxley…

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Yesterday, we took a break from our normal trawl through the filings to cozy up with the transcript from the arguments before the Supreme Court over whether the Public Company Accounting Board (PCAOB), which was created under Sarbanes-Oxley, has a right to exist.
The arguments in the case, which was formally titled the Free Enterprise Fund vs. [...]

On Veteran’s Day and late filers…

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Today is Veteran’s Day, which means that the SEC (and all federal offices) are closed, even though the markets are open. Given that Monday was a big deadline for (mostly) third quarter Qs, it gives us a chance to play catch up and check in on those companies that couldn’t make it to the church [...]

SEC Madoff exhibit list now available…

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Yesterday, we poked at the SEC for not just dumping 6,100 pages of material on a Friday afternoon, but for failing to provide a road-map to the 536 exhibits. In separate conversations with me, a representative of the SEC and SEC Inspector General David Kotz each suggested that it was the other’s fault for not [...]