Is the CEO or CFO lying during the quarterly earnings call? How can you tell? David F. Larcker and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina of the Stanford Graduate School of Business turned… » Read More

Back in December, the Federal Trade Commission released new guidelines that specifically required bloggers to disclose any material connections to a product or company they are writing about. In May,… » Read More

I think a big part of compliance is education. It is great to get compliance imposed through internal systems, but you generally need to get the message out to your… » Read More

Here are some recent stories I found interesting: A Red Flag on G.M. Internal Controls by Peter J. Henning in the New York Times’ DealBook General Motors filed its S-1… » Read More

Purchase out of the money call options set to expire in two weeks, be an employee of the company acting as an adviser in the merger, not have any activity… » Read More

It’s official. Social media is a risk factor. At least according to Estee Lauder and lululemon athletica. Over at Footnoted, Michelle Leder and her team dig through SEC filings digging… » Read More

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal published a story by Aneel Karnani, Professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M Ross School of Business with a controversial headline: The Case… » Read More

Roger Clemens taught us another important lesson in dealing with an investigation. Never lie to the feds. Mark McGwire essentially proclaimed his guilt when he refused to answer questions about… » Read More

One part of compliance is investigation. Find the facts. Don’t rely on opinion or self-interest statements. With all the hullabaloo about the Ground Zero Mosque I thought I would gather… » Read More