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Executive Compensation: Under Fire and What's to Come
The current worldwide financial crisis and economic downturn have fueled an unprecedented level of outcry and activism on many fronts — most notably with respect to executive compensation. Within the last six months, there has been a myriad of proposed legislation and regulations by the U.S. Department of Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission and both houses of Congress that will certainly reshape the current landscape of executive compensation.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2008
Where Have All the GCs Gone?
Reporting Changes Cause Reshuffling, Disappearance of Top-Ranked Pennsylvania GCs
When the time came to start putting together this year's GC Compensation Survey for public companies in Pennsylvania, we set about gathering the data in the usual way, researching the companies' Securities and Exchange Commission filings on executive compensation. What we found was that the SEC has changed the way that companies must report executive compensation — not only how compensation figures are reported, but also what is included in those figures — and the changes have shaken up our chart.
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| | | | | | | | 3-2008
Executive Compensation Disclosures
Changes to Requirements for Corporate SEC Reports
In July 2006, amid national attention to the ever-growing salaries earned by corporate executives, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted extensive substantive changes to the disclosure requirements for executive compensation found in public company proxy statements and annual reports.
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