Archive for March, 2008

The winners from underpriced IPOs

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Institutional investors and venture capitalists are the big winners when they orchestrate underpriced IPOs. Other investors suffer

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SOX-related boardroom changes and share price

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Sarbabnes-Oxley related changes to governance have affected the share price of companies

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Nonprofits ethics: now nearly as bad as business and government

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Ethics at nonprofits can be as bad as business and government.

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Fraud and IPOs

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

what’s the relationship between fraud and IPOs?

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Fraud and IPOs

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

what’s the relationship between fraud and IPOs?

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The Age Blogs: Management Line

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

What are the signs that you are being bullied at work?

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Another horror week for KPMG

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Another bad week for KPMG with the US Government pushing ahead with its tax shelter case, the firm being pinged $80 million for accoutning fraud and then being accused of Enron-style shenanigans with failed subprime lender New Century Financial.

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Wikinomics: a review

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Instead of relying on limited internal resources to innovate, companies will turn to mass collaboration and open source technology such as wikis. Here is how they will do it.

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The Bear Stearns fallout and a solution

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Shockwaves from the US Government backed sale of Bear Stearns continue with the Senate launching a probe into how much risk is passed on to taxpayers

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Biovail’s fraud and SOX

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Drugmaker Biovail’s $10 million settlement with the SEC to settle fraud charges makes fascinating reading and tells us that Sarbanes-Oxley did not stop fraud.

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