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SEC Unveils XBRL Tool for Financials: If you want a glimpse of what extensible business reporting language (XBRL) can do for financial statements, look no further than the SEC's new Finance Explorer tool. [more]
How Green Is Your Supply Chain?: The pressure is on for businesses to demonstrate their commitment to meeting environmental challenges, and one critical area of scrutiny is the supply chain. [more]
Insurers Not Warming to Climate Risk: As environmental advocacy groups take global warming issues to the courts and demands for climate-risk disclosures escalate, companies need to integrate potential liabilities into their risk management programs. [more]
IBM Charts a Course for Cognos: Big Blue has announced an overarching strategy for its recent business intelligence acquisition, along with new integrated products, including solutions aimed at verticals such as banking, health care, and government. [more]
Can Global M&A Stage a Comeback?: The global mergers and acquisitions market stumbled badly at the end of last year as credit markets went into subprime shock worldwide. [more]
The Lure of Africa: Africa's economy is growing at 5 percent to 6 percent a year, despite the perceived risks of investing in this emerging market. [more]
Toward Better Reporting: A Talk with Robert Pozen: The SEC's Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting is scheduled to issue a report detailing its recommendations later this month. [more]
Court to Decide Whether Companies Have Minds: Can a company commit fraud even if none of its employees did? [more]
SEC and Emerging Markets' Regulators Join Forces: Brazil, China, South Africa, and South Korea attended the first Emerging Markets Conclave, hosted by the SEC, to collaborate on the growing securities markets' challenges. [more]
How Sustainability Improves the Bottom Line: Can financial and environmental performance work together to drive corporate growth? [more]
The Tally on Third Party Ethics: It is imperative to use a code of practice or conduct when addressing third party ethics and compliance issues, according to 95 percent of companies surveyed by The Conference Board and the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA). [more]
Investment Governance Rewards: Achieving good governance makes a $10 million to $20 million impact per year on a $1 billion fund, according to "Best-Practice Investment Management: Lessons for Asset Owners". [more]
Yahoo! Tells Microsoft “No”: Yahoo! Inc. has officially rejected Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover offer. [more]
CFOs and Chief Risk Officers: From Different Planets?: Risk and Finance should not be integrated -- the fundamental differences between them are too great -- but they should be aligned. [more]
Subprime Investigations Heating Up: Subprime investigations are intensifying -- the FBI has opened criminal inquiries into 14 unidentified companies during its examination of the subprime mortgage crisis and the SEC has started formal investigations into UBS AB and Merrill Lynch & Co Inc’s mortgage security pricing. [more]
M&A Potential Faces Cold Feet: While investment bankers hype up M&A possibilities, the current credit crunch and recession woes inhibit companies from taking the plunge. [more]
Brokers Look To Switch Firms: A change in the firm's direction is the number one reason brokers and advisers change firms, according to a National Financial study. [more]
Credit Crunch? What Credit Crunch?: If we're in a credit crisis, it's an odd one, since plenty of low-cost funds are readily available thanks to recent interest rate cuts. [more]
Health Care Cost Increases Outpace Inflation Rate: Employers around the globe will be spending more on medical costs in the next five years, according to a Watson Wyatt Worldwide poll of insurance companies. [more]
Corporates Weigh In On Tax Policy: Corporate tax executives are keeping a close eye on the policy maneuverings of the potential candidates in the run-up to the Presidential election, and many are hoping that someone will utter the words "comprehensive reform". [more]