Proxy paper trail
With today's world markets exposed to almost unprecedented risks - corporate scandals, environmental and regulatory issues, war...
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Reporting Archive
Looking for options
In early 2001 Amazon.com was forced to offer an exchange of employee stock options that were 'underwater'. Shares of the e-tailer...
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Glad to be gray
Less brash, less flash. That's the low-key message coming from several of the UK's top corporate printers about this year's batch...
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Stats strategy
Too much information. It's a regular complaint of those new to the online world: what's the point in having all this information...
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XBRL language pains
Touted as the next big thing for financial reporting, XBRL – or extensible business reporting language – was supposed to conquer...
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Italian style
It used to be that IR in Italy could only have been a liaison d'amour between a shareholder and broker. Corporate communications...
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How they do it at Novartis
New skills, or in Latin, novae artes. More than a brand name, it's a pledge to keep innovating by one of the global leaders in...
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Mind the gap
Investor relations officers at companies with defined benefit plans should pay rapt attention to the current drama unfolding in...
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Enter the dragon
Market reform has gradually opened up China's economy, to the extent that it's now the largest recipient of foreign direct...
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A matter of perception
Q. I work for a small-cap US company. Is it advisable to review all our analysts' models, even though we don't have that many...
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