CEOs hit post-Enron rules
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Major U.S. CEOs complained about regulatory burdens in the post-Enron environment at a high-profile conference on regulation and the legal system, while an investor advocate warned on Tuesday that business leaders should not lose sight of what matters to investors.
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CEO trials, including two that begin this week, have raised vigilance against corporate wrongdoing.
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Accounting regulators adopted rules on Thursday requiring publicly traded companies to treat the stock options they give to employees as normal business expenses.
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President Bush went to Wall Street to say compensation packages should hinge on how good a job a CEO does for the shareholders
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Here's something to ponder over Labor Day weekend: Chief executives of large US companies last year averaged $10.8 million in total compensation, more than 364 times the pay of the average US worker, according to a study by two advocacy groups, one of them from Boston.
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although not large ones - were given a reprieve yesterday from requirements imposed in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals that they certify their financial controls.
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Mutual funds are moving to comply with a new rule that requires them to have independent chairmen starting in 2006, despite a growing challenge to the rule.
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Independent probe might throw some top executives overboard.
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Not one, but three former CEOs begin their trials
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Shareholders can expect a clearer picture of how much top executives are paid as new rules go into effect today, requiring companies to clearly explain their compensation practices.
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Increased oversight of chief executive  compensation has placed a lid on big salary jumps for CEOs in  very large U.S. organizations, according to a survey.
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Chief executives in the United States  are not as pessimistic as the Business Council thought last  week when it issued its economic survey, the group said on  Tuesday, citing a "tabulation error."
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The Enron executives now face the prospect of decades in prison, but the judge's broad jury instructions give them a chance of reversing their convictions
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CEOs aren&#39;t taking the care that they should with their customers&#39; data when they outsource, according to a new survey of senior management.
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In executive compensation at least, where America leads, the UK follows. That's why it should come as no surprise that the total earnings of chief executives at British blue-chip companies have doubled over the past five years. For Americans, the surprise may be that average annual compensation for chief executives of FTSE 100 companies is so low: a mere &pound;3.17m, according to the latest report from Incomes Data Services, a UK research group. Compare the $48m earned last year by Stan O'Neal of Merrill Lynch.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously proposed  rules yesterday that would require a majority of board members at the nation's stock exchanges to be independent from management, and compel exchanges to disclose how much they pay their  five top executives.
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Attention, CEOs around the globe: The gold standard has been set.