October 11, 2007
Today: “4th Annual Executive Compensation” Conference
Tune in today for more of the same with: “4th Annual Executive Compensation” Conference. The Conference opens with a keynote from John Olson and then gets right into the practical “nitty gritty” of what boards and advisors should be doing vis a vis CEO pay. Plenty of implementation examples, such as how companies have implemented internal pay equity, wealth accumulation analyses, “walk away” number calculations and clawback provisions with teeth.
To watch, come to the home page of either TheCorporateCounsel.net or CompensationStandards.com and click the prominent link that says “Enter the Conference.” Watch the Conference live by clicking a video link that will be on the Conference page that matches the type of player installed on your computer (ie. Windows Media Player or RealPlayer) and the speed of the connection that you have.
Here’s an agenda for today’s Conference; note that times are Pacific/West coast. Panels will be archived a day after they are shown live.
COSO Releases More Internal Control Guidance
A few weeks ago, the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission released its latest Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control Systems. Called a discussion document, the guidance is the first phase of COSO’s attempt to improve the understanding of internal control system. COSO is taking comments this latest guidance.
Ten Years: It Goes By Fast…
It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since the SEC submitted this Study to Congress about how technology – in particular, the Internet – impacts the securities markets. If my memory serves, I believe the SEC was required to produce a study as mandated by a provision of NSMIA.
Yours truly did the leg work on the Corp Fin chapter of the study; some of the more interesting stuff is in the footnotes, as they describe the pioneers that leveraged the Web. I had a box of really cool stuff that documented those examples (and many more that didn’t make it into the final cut of the Study), but a flood in my basement wiped them out a while back…
– Broc Romanek