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Five Key Considerations for Audit Committees During the Pandemic

Five Key Considerations for Audit Committees During the Pandemic

Five Key Considerations for Audit Committees During the Pandemic

The pandemic has everyone rethinking how they do things, whether it be personal greetings, grocery shopping, organized sports—or, in the case of audit committees, financial oversight. In January, we examined five items that the SEC wanted o...

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Issuers Line Up for Federal Reserve Relief Programs

People lined up in a row to exchange ETFs

During the pandemic, images of customers lining up for city blocks to purchase food and supplies have gone viral on social media. Now, public companies are forming a line of their own — albeit one that can’t be captured in a picture. They’r...

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Issuers Face Questions About WFH Policies

Twitter's home-base office

The global pandemic has required a huge swath of the population to “work from home” (or WFH, as the kids say). The question is whether like LOL before it, this three-letter abbreviation has simply captured the zeitgeist of the moment, or wh...

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Intelligize Report: Virtual Annual Shareholder Meetings Are the New Reality

Toddlers playing on the pool with floaties

The coronavirus has forced many public companies to go virtual. And, no, we aren’t talking about the switch to remote work. We’re talking about the transition to virtual annual shareholder meetings, which, while prompted by the pandemic, co...

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Back-to-Work Protections Go High-Tech

Employee caught on surveillance camera.

Pepper Construction monitors its building sites with software that knows when groups of workers have gathered. Samarth Diamond plans to use AI-powered surveillance to spot when workers at its 4,000-employee polishing factory are not wearing...

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