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Disclosure After Sarbanes-Oxley

whitepaper Of particular importance, are the act's new financial disclosure and reporting requirements for public companies and their senior executives and officers. Bush on July 30, 2002. In the wake of the recent reports of accounting irregularities at...

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, accounting, officers, public companies

[10 Apr 2008]

Corporate Governance and Compliance

whitepaper In responding to these new regulations and the events that led to heir adoption, executives face myriad challenges. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, signed into law on July 30, 2002, ushered in a new era of corporate compliance with far-reaching reforms.

Tags: business management, compliance, agency, creation

[10 Apr 2008]

Start-ups cash in on 'exploding' battery recalls

News Lampe-Onnerud and executives at other lithium ion start-ups, however, counter that none of these alternatives can provide the energy density and battery life of lithium ion. Boston-Power, however, has an advantage in that Lampe-Onnerud and other...

Tags: batteries, laptop, dell

[20 Dec 2006]

Former HP CEO dies at 64

News Platt, according to sources, also became an advocate of ensuring that female executives weren't passed over unfairly. Partly as a result, some of HP's key executives, such as Ann Livermore, have been women.

Tags: lew platt, hp

[12 Sep 2005]

Good ERP relies on simplicity and standards, says study

News The analyst said that chief information officers must communicate openly with other executives about the impact of changing business processes as their ERP projects develop over time. In a report to be issued publicly at the end of July...

Tags: erp

[20 Jul 2005]

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: What Corporate Executives Need to Know

whitepaper The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, enacted on July 30, 2002, effects sweeping changes in the responsibilities of officers and directors of public companies, including foreign private issuers, and the corporate reporting obligations of these companies.

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, act, compliance, oxley

[23 Mar 2005]

Microsoft rakes in larger-than-expected pile of cash

News On a conference call with analysts, Microsoft executives said the company is seeing customers taking longer to renew software contracts, typically taking more advantage of a 90-day grace period than they have in the past.

Tags: earnings, microsoft

[22 Oct 2004]

Corporates line Oracle's pockets for bumper first quarter

Corporates line Oracle's pockets for bumper first quarter

News Speaking on an analyst teleconference, Oracle executives said the company's applications division suffered from particularly weak demand in Europe and from aggressive discounting among rivals. Oracle is encouraged by last week's ruling on the...

[15 Sep 2004]

XP SP2: Raises IT managers' blood pressure

XP SP2: Raises IT managers' blood pressure

News These concerns are leading to a world of 'have and have nots' when it comes to installation of SP2 in business systems, according to recent survey of IT executives by UK-based security company Mi2g. Only half of IT departments worldwide are...

Tags: windows xp sp2

[25 Aug 2004]

Dell robust in Q2 - Europe brightest star of all

Dell robust in Q2 - Europe brightest star of all

News Dell executives believe that lower component costs will allow it to lower prices on PCs, helping it to ship more units. The Round Rock, Texas-based PC maker posted a profit of $799m, a company record, on revenue of $11.7bn for its second fiscal...

Tags: earnings, dell, hp

[13 Aug 2004]

Yahoo! dumps Google

Yahoo! dumps Google

News Google executives were not immediately available for comment. closed its acquisition with Overture, valued at $1.63bn when it announced the deal last July. dropped Google as the default search technology provider for its US-based sites late Tuesday...

Tags: google, yahoo

[18 Feb 2004]

EMC lands Documentum for $1.7bn

EMC lands Documentum for $1.7bn

News Documentum executives said the company expects an eighth consecutive quarter of positive growth, with third-quarter revenue of $73.5m - an increase of 31 per cent over its $56.3m in revenue in the same period last year.

Tags: $1.7m, documentum, emc

[15 Oct 2003]

Tech stocks hit new high

Tech stocks hit new high

News Growth in computer hardware and software sales is tepid, technology executives are hesitant to predict a recovery, and layoffs and a weak dollar are about the only real drivers of profit growth. Semiconductor stocks, among the hardest hit of any in...

Tags: tech stocks, slump, shares, downturn

[18 Aug 2003]

PeopleSoft and JD Edwards deal gets green light

PeopleSoft and JD Edwards deal gets green light

News Probing for Oracle's thinking on JD Edwards at last week's meeting, financial analysts asked executives if Oracle could possibly prevent the deal or whether it had considered spinning JD Edwards off were it to end up with PeopleSoft.

[15 Jul 2003]

Slammer time - SQL worm brings net to its knees over weekend

Slammer time - SQL worm brings net to its knees over weekend

News But even as some Microsoft executives urged companies to download patches, others admitted that this was not as easy as it sounded. The worm, known as SQL Slammer, takes advantage of a bug that was discovered last July in Microsoft's SQL Server...

[27 Jan 2003]

'Macs and PCs can get along': Microsoft

'Macs and PCs can get along': Microsoft

News Recently Microsoft executives have said they have been more pleased with Office sales, but they would not say how many copies have been sold. In July, Microsoft said it had sold 300,000 copies of the Mac OS X version, less than half of the 750,000...

[10 Oct 2002]

Former Microsoft exec nets $15m

Former Microsoft exec nets $15m

News Personal loans to company executives like the one granted to Belluzzo became illegal on 30 July under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, following several high-profile accounting and corporate governance scandals.

[09 Sep 2002]

Fat cat Gent ready to explode

Fat cat Gent ready to explode

News The level of the award is way above the norm for UK-based executives, including those operating in international concerns. The National Association of Pension Funds, which represents up to 30 per cent of Vodafone's shareholders, has advised its...

[09 Jul 2001]

Quintus in the dock over reporting irregularities

Quintus in the dock over reporting irregularities

News The case has been brought by Wolf Popper LLP on behalf of everyone who bought Quintus shares during July 20 2000 and 14 November 2000. It accuses the eCRM vendor of under-reporting its revenue and losses for the period between 15 November 1999 and...

[16 Nov 2000]

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