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August 31, 2007
Compensation Disclosures
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has startled the CEOs of over 300 companies with letters asking for more detail in their compensation disclosures on the SEC's new rules. The CEOs are startled because they did little to prepare the disclosures; their attorneys did. We again have an example of corporate attorneys reading the SEC rules as closely and conservatively as is possible (or beyond what is possible) in order to disclose the barest minimum. The SEC is apparently not happy with the practice and may have itself over-reacted in demanding more detailed information. It will take some time for this ping-pong match to play itself out. It is yet another illustation of the extreme sensitivity of the country's CEOs to executive compensation disclosure requirements.
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