Essays Tagged: "U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission"

How Parmalat Went Sour

le Farms dairy. Parmalat's shares traded in New York and it sold more than $1.5 billion in bonds to U.S. investors. The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has sued Parmalat for misleading inves ... the Italian branch of Grant Thornton International, one of the largest of the so-called second-tier U.S. accounting firms. In 1999, Parmalat was forced to change its auditor under Italian law, and it ...

(5 pages) 136 1 3.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Roles of Regulatory Organization

tors have to be very careful when investing their money. This is where federal agencies such as the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ca ... information about securities and the companies that issue them. Besides being the regulator of the U.S. securities market, the SEC works closely with many other institutions, including Congress, othe ...

(3 pages) 75 0 4.8 Feb/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Accounting

Business Stratergy of HP

th HP under our director independence standards, which incorporate the standards established by the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission and those of the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, where ...

(9 pages) 182 0 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies