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Browse: Home / 2013 / October / 10 / Tone at the Top (of the SEC): Tough — The HLS Forum on Corp. Gov. and Fin. Reg.

Tone at the Top (of the SEC): Tough — The HLS Forum on Corp. Gov. and Fin. Reg.

By Securities Docket on October 10, 2013, 7:33 am

As the fiscal year comes to a close—even while the Securities and Exchange Commission, amidst the government shutdown, continues to fund its operations through a carryover balance from FY 2013—it is a good time to review recent signs of SEC skepticism regarding financial statement reporting practices and the SEC’s current focus on public company officers, directors, and auditors as targets of potential enforcement actions. Since Mary Jo White was confirmed as the new Chairman in April, and George Canellos and Andrew Ceresney were named Co-Directors of the Division of Enforcement later that month, a number of enforcement actions and SEC statements suggest a heightened vigilance, particularly with respect to potential corporate accounting failures.

via Tone at the Top (of the SEC): Tough — The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.

Posted in SEC | Tagged Regulators, Web Watch

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