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Tag: Disclosure

SEC Steps Up Enforcement Actions for Insufficient Disclosure

SEC Steps Up Enforcement Actions for Insufficient Disclosure

SEC Steps Up Enforcement Actions for Insufficient Disclosure

The Cheesecake Factory is famous for pushing the limits of culinary convention – from its massive menus to its trademark desserts to somehow finding space for even more food on diners’ plates. The California-based chain recently broke a mor...

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Polluted Factory: ESG Environmental Impact

A Farewell to Principles-based Disclosure?

Polluted Factory: ESG Environmental Impact

A changing of the guard in the White House means new faces in high-profile places throughout the executive branch. At the Securities and Exchange Commission, chairman Jay Clayton, an appointee of the outgoing president, has already announce...

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Mathematical Pay Ratios Written on Chalkboard

CEO Pay-Ratio Math Gets Messy in 2020

Mathematical Pay Ratios Written on Chalkboard

As far as math problems go, it’s not a hard one. You take the CEO’s compensation and divide it by the compensation of the median employee. Presto! Just like that, you’ve got the CEO pay ratio that public companies have been required to disc...

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Issuers Disclose Electoral Worries

US White House

The 2020 presidential campaign introduced Americans to the concept of “election week.” Political junkies accustomed to knowing the identity of the next president on the first Tuesday in November went to bed on November 3 with a vastly diffe...

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Fearless Girl bronze sculpture represents Workplace Diversity

Issuers Pushed to Reveal Workforce Diversity Numbers

Fearless Girl bronze sculpture represents Workplace Diversity

In recent weeks, three different entities with the power to get the c-suite’s attention—Bloomberg News, State Street, and the New York City comptroller—have called on public companies to disclose data on their workforce diversity. Their app...

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