Issuers Disclose Electoral Worries
The 2020 presidential campaign introduced Americans to the concept of “election week.” Political junkies accustomed to knowing the identity of the...
Buybacks Beware: SEC Settlement Sends Message About Internal Controls
Public corporations are spending upwards of a trillion dollars annually on stock buybacks, sending capital back to shareholders by the truckload. Howe...
SEC Exercises Patience in Enforcing New Lease Accounting Standard
Parents have an instinctive sense of which household rules to enforce ruthlessly (“don’t lie” comes to mind), and which to be more lenient with ...
SEC Presses Pause on NYSE’s Direct Listing Plan
Plenty of wonderful fads come out of Silicon Valley. But lots of strange and even dangerous ones do too: soylent diets, dopamine fasting, doomsday pre...
Child Care Crisis a Hot Topic for Public Companies and Workforce
You’ve probably heard about the contentious conference calls happening this summer. Calls in which administrators get peppered with questions about ...
Moneyball Savant Seeks Bargains at Sports SPAC
As general manager of the Oakland A’s, Billy Beane was so good at discovering undervalued assets that Michael Lewis wrote a book about him and Brad ...