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Virtual Shareholder Meetings in a Global Internet System

Companies Call on SEC’s Coronavirus Relief

Virtual Shareholder Meetings in a Global Internet System

With seemingly every business on the planet affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the Securities and Exchange Commission is taking steps to ease the regulatory burden on public companies. The latest moves came on Friday. Given the suddenly...

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Lens of Focus: Unveiling the Unseen of subsequent events

Coronavirus Disclosures, Compliance Starting to Come into Focus

Lens of Focus: Unveiling the Unseen of subsequent events

Even before U.S. health officials sounded the alarm about the coronavirus, financial markets were sufficiently spooked by the outbreak this week to prompt a sell-off. As stock prices tumbled and investors wrestled with the prospect of an ec...

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People playing in Tug of war contest

Four Takeaways from the Government’s 2021 Budgets

People playing in Tug of war contest

The White House and the SEC released proposed budgets for the year 2021 last week, and they tell a compelling story of internal conflict. Don’t get us wrong: the proposals are terribly boring to read. But when you step back far enough from...

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FASB is Living in a Materiality World

B+W image of old-time party goers

You’d be forgiven if you confused the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s (FASB) latest announcement about its “conceptual framework” for a description of an upcoming TED Talk. That kind of jargon is popular with thought leaders and thin...

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