Boardroom Bridging the GAAP Aug 31, 2008 By Erik Sherman 9 min read Come January 1, 2011, every Canadian company is supposed to have switched its accounting from Canadian GAAP to international... Read More
Boardroom Cleaning up the system Aug 31, 2008 By Janine Armin 7 min read As the new managing director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG), Stephen Griggs is building upon the... Read More
Boardroom Top of the heap Aug 31, 2008 By Brendan Sheehan 8 min read Governance and compliance excellence is becoming evermore difficult – and important – to achieve. Many significant changes have... Read More
Boardroom A new proxy standard Aug 31, 2008 By Gwen Moran 10 min read Many shareholders of Canadian companies are suffering from a failure to communicate when it comes to proxy voting. Shareholders... Read More
Boardroom International introductions Jul 31, 2008 By Terry McWilliams 6 min read With more than $3 trillion in assets, the world’s sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) are becoming a prime source of potential... Read More
Boardroom Spreading the governance gospel Jul 31, 2008 By Brendan Sheehan 9 min read It is possibly one of the most famous last names in corporate governance: Oxley. Along with Senator Paul Sarbanes, Michael Oxley... Read More
Boardroom The new CEO Jul 31, 2008 By Janine Armin 3 min read Ben Heineman Jr, former general counsel at GE, has tackled the ever-important governance debate in a new book, High performance... Read More
Boardroom The game of risk Jul 31, 2008 By Janine Armin 6 min read The economic climate has changed a great deal since David Hensler, partner at Hogan & Hartson, worked in the SEC’s general counsel... Read More
Boardroom Rating the raters Jul 31, 2008 By Adam Piore 9 min read For years, the major credit rating agencies – Moody’s, Fitch and Standard & Poor’s – have been the quasi-official gatekeepers of... Read More
Boardroom A season of surprises Jul 31, 2008 By Brendan Sheehan 7 min read Every year it seems to be the same thing. People stand up and shout, ‘This was the busiest year ever.’ Well, 2008 isn’t any... Read More