Corporate Disclosure Quotes

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.

I've signed many documents as president and CEO as required by law. I signed every single document that we were required to file - every single one of them.

Requiring fund managers to disclose how they vote would increase accountability and mean that pensioners and ordinary investors would more easily be able to see how those acting on their behalf vote on all issues, including remuneration.

If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles.

One way to promote shareholder engagement and activism is through greater accountability and transparency.

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.

The future will find one of its great problems is deciding how big a business enterprise must become before the public is entitled to know the full details of its management.

Traditionally, companies have made major announcements before or after the close of trading so that all interested investors and analysts are apprised of the news before trading resumes in their stocks.

Benefits are rarely made public in filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, where companies must report the pay and options that their five highest-paid executives receive.

Transparency is so important in business.

The reason for looking at a public listing instead of private capital is that I have always enjoyed running a public limited company.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.