Annually we hold a Directors’ Institute and Proxy Season Workshop in Kansas City. You can find the materials from our current seminar held on November 12, 2015 here. Some of the topics covered include:
- Audit Committee Update
- COSO 2013 implementation
- SEC comment letters
- Accounting and auditing enforcement
- SEC concept release
- IFRS
- Revenue recognition
- Whistleblowers
- Yates Memo and DOJ Targeting Officers and Directors
- Background
- Compliance and governance implications
- Indemnification and insurance problems and solutions
- Compensation Committee Update
- Pay for performance and goal setting
- Proposed pay for performance disclosure rules
- Talent management
- Pay ratio disclosure rules
- Compensation clawback rules
- Hedging disclosure rules
- Compensation disclosure challenges
- Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Update
- Political and lobbyist activity
- Political contributions
- Director evaluations
- 2015 amendments to the DGCL
- Proxy Access
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