Picture Source Well, this was news to me. I have written before about incentive compensation and the crime of giving executives bonuses based on targets they set and numbers they have the power to manipulate. So I am excited, tickled pink and delirious over the possibility that the SEC may start to enforce this provision. […]
Photo Source Back in the summer of 2005, I joined the team that audits PwC the Firm, itself. I was thrilled. Although I was giving up being on my own and spending most of my time on Mexico and South America, I was joining what I thought at the time was a world-class firm, I […]
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” -Aristotle Although I usually agree wholeheartedly with Jonathan Weil, I […]
Breeden Wins! Now he’s got to deliver. Breeden to join board of H&R Block Richard Breeden, the former SEC Chairman turned hedge fund manager, has won his proxy contest against the management of tax preparer H&R Block. While official tallies of the shareholder vote have yet to be confirmed, it appears that Mr. Breeden and […]
