“Executive compensation has provoked comment like no other issue, chiefly because many shareholders have a keen and legitimate interest in knowing how boards are compensating top executives — they want to know whether the managers’ interests are aligned with their own.”

“Following the reforms of the last few years, we have more disclosure, more transparency, more accountability, and more tools for directors and stockholders than ever before. We should not through enforcement actions undercut the business judgment rule — we do so to the peril of stockholders. When we focus on corporate compensation arrangements and on practices regarding granting of stock options, we must take care not to undermine a compensation arrangement that has served shareowners so well for so many years.” ~Atkins

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Another ethical issue that is being examined is spring loading and bullet dodging. Sarbanes Oxley’s new requirement that all......

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Title: Stock Option Backdating
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