Material Weakness: A Pain in the Bonus
When a company's material-weakness disclosures rise, the CFO's bonus falls, according to a new study.
Alan Rappeport, CFO.com | US
October 30, 2007
- Nice
Was very interesting to read.
googlePosted by Sommo Pokkonin | Mar 9, 2009 8:53 AM ET
- Lose lose situation
An unremediated, significant control deficiency/ies could eventually be rated as a material weakness leading to a possible material misstatement in the company's financial statements.
Everyone loses because of a weak control environment: the shareholder, the CEO/CFO (who are primarily responsible for designing and maintaining controls) and,ofcourse, the enterprise.Posted by Chandrasekar Venkataraman | Oct 31, 2007 6:15 PM ET


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