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Companies Take Different Routes on Tariff Adjustments to Exec Pay

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Tariffs didn’t just hit company earnings last year. They also hit the performance metrics that determine executive bonuses. This has forced compensation committees to make uncomfortable calls about whether to ignore the impact of tariffs in...

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Allbirds Does Some Sole Searching

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If you thought Allbirds were trendy when they made shoes, prepare yourself. Allbirds has stopped making its signature product and pivoted straight into a technology driving the zeitgeist. With its market cap having fallen from more than $4...

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SEC Weighs in on Tariff Accounting, Just in Time

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Public companies have been asking a critical question since tariffs started reshaping their cost structures, which has largely gone unanswered: how are we supposed to account for all of this? Fortunately, they just received the closest thin...

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When “We’ll Lock It Up” Stops Working

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The AI industry spent years assuring everyone that its most valuable assets were safely behind walls. Last month, two incidents in five days challenged that assumption. A supply chain attack on Mercor, a $10 billion AI recruiting startup, g...

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The SEC’s New SOX Squad: Five Takeaways for Auditors and Public Companies

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The Securities and Exchange Commission has spent the better part of a year scaling back its enforcement function. There are fewer cases, lower penalties, reduced staffing, and a revised enforcement manual. So when a new enforcement unit mat...

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