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The Supremes and Sarbanes-Oxley…

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

Yesterday, we took a break from our normal trawl through the filings to cozy up with the transcript from the arguments before the Supreme Court over whether the Public Company Accounting Board (PCAOB), which was created under Sarbanes-Oxley, has a right to exist.
The arguments in the case, which was formally titled the Free Enterprise Fund vs. [...]

On Veteran’s Day and late filers…

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Today is Veteran’s Day, which means that the SEC (and all federal offices) are closed, even though the markets are open. Given that Monday was a big deadline for (mostly) third quarter Qs, it gives us a chance to play catch up and check in on those companies that couldn’t make it to the church [...]

SEC Madoff exhibit list now available…

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Yesterday, we poked at the SEC for not just dumping 6,100 pages of material on a Friday afternoon, but for failing to provide a road-map to the 536 exhibits. In separate conversations with me, a representative of the SEC and SEC Inspector General David Kotz each suggested that it was the other’s fault for not [...]

The SEC’s massive Friday night dump…

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

By now, you’ve probably heard or read about the massive document dump that the SEC unleashed on Friday night: 536 exhibits related to the Bernie Madoff case. Reading all of these — even figuring out which ones are worth reading — was all but impossible, even if it wasn’t earnings and 10-Q season. The New [...]

SEC tells WaPo to do better job explaining its comp…

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Today’s one of those weird holidays where the markets are open, but the SEC is closed, which means no new filings today. But on Friday, before they left for the holiday weekend, the SEC released a bevy of comment letters, many of which focus on compensation disclosures in the 2009 crop of proxies.
One of the [...]