At the median, public companies took 37 days last year to disclose a breach, the longest period recorded since 2016, says Audit Analytics.
The measures will "harm the governance process and suppress the free and full exercise of shareholder voting rights," a dissenting commissioner says.
The current system that allows insiders to trade on information about a significant corporate event is "a total abuse of the public trust."
New academic analysis pulls no punches, calling the ratio "lacking in accuracy, difficult to interpret, and incomplete."
The final rule from the SEC requires disclosure of policies that permit "the mitigation of the incentive alignment associated with equity ownership."
The world's second-most-valuable company is not being coy but rather is clearly communicating its business-model shift, an investor relations expert says.
Yes, complying with the new lease accounting standard presents a compliance burden. But the effort may well lead to operational and cost improvements.
The commission and Congress have actually done much to ease the way for new IPOs, a capital markets attorney says.
FASB’s revenue recognition standard includes complex disclosure requirements that will take effect sooner than companies think.
Companies would have to disclose the makeup of their inventory and the reasons for unusual changes in it.
Hesitation may arise at the thought of providing incremental financial disclosures, but the benefits are clear.
Eighty-one percent of companies divulged some information about material sustainability risks in 2015, but the reports often lacked consistency.
