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Author: Miriam Robin

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Employers on Payroll-Tax Deferral: Thanks, But No Thanks

Sectional display at a furniture store

No payments till 2021! It sounds like a great deal in some contexts—perhaps, say, if you are a consumer looking for a new sectional. But the federal government just made that offer to workers on their payroll taxes, and, well, it isn’t exac...

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Amplifying voices: Microphone confronting racial inequality

Issuers Pushed to Stand Up on Social Issues

Amplifying voices: Microphone confronting racial inequality

If you streamed Hamilton last weekend, you saw opposing sides of a question facing today’s public companies personified by two 18th-century politicians. The question is whether to stake out a position on hot-button issues. Aaron Burr cautio...

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Issuers Get (Halfway) Back Into Spending, Guidance Game

Slowly melting row icicles in a row

As citizens emerge from shelter-in-place orders and the frozen economy thaws, issuers too have begun a return to normalcy (whatever that is). Some public companies have loosened the spending controls they implemented at the start of the pan...

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Five Key Considerations for Audit Committees During the Pandemic

Five Key Considerations for Audit Committees During the Pandemic

Five Key Considerations for Audit Committees During the Pandemic

The pandemic has everyone rethinking how they do things, whether it be personal greetings, grocery shopping, organized sports—or, in the case of audit committees, financial oversight. In January, we examined five items that the SEC wanted o...

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Employee caught on surveillance camera.

Back-to-Work Protections Go High-Tech

Employee caught on surveillance camera.

Pepper Construction monitors its building sites with software that knows when groups of workers have gathered. Samarth Diamond plans to use AI-powered surveillance to spot when workers at its 4,000-employee polishing factory are not wearing...

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