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Board Practices in the Digital Era: Maximizing the Benefit-to-Cost Ratio of Information Technology

Harvard Corporate Governance

Virtual capabilities and electronic documents are double-edged swords. Modern information technology can markedly improve the efficiency and quality of the deliberative processes of corporate boards of directors. This post is based on their article , forthcoming in Directors and Boards Magazine.

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IVSC Agenda Consultation 2024

IVSC

Key Themes The Agenda Consultation document highlights several key themes for consideration: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG): Recognising the growing importance of ESG factors in valuation, this topic explores how these elements impact valuation processes and the need for additional standards.

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Using tax technology to boost agility and retain staff

ThomsonReuters

Even as accounting firms emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic with a new appreciation for technology’s ability to enable remote work and seamless collaboration, a new challenge has surfaced. Increasing productivity with tax technology. So, how can tax technology boost the agility of your firm? Detect inaccuracies.

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How Technology Has Made Businesses More Efficient and Effective

BV Specialists

when running a small business or even working in a larger corporate environment involved a ton of phone calls, writing, typing, and mailing hard copies of letters and documents, while advertising in local trade journals or yellow pages. Have you created a paper-free environment in your business?

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Trade Law Catches Up With Technology

Global Finance

A slow process of switching from physical to digital trade documentation appears to be speeding up.

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Good and Bad CEOs

Harvard Corporate Governance

While the average stock price reaction to CEO deaths is small, we document large negative reactions to many deaths and large positive ones to many others. Analyzing 449 CEO deaths in publicly traded US firms between 1980 and 2012, we find striking heterogeneity in the shareholder value effects of CEO deaths.

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Accounting Technology: What it is and how it works

ThomsonReuters

As companies emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and face subsequent challenges resulting from The Great Resignation, technology has emerged as a necessity for small and large businesses alike. What is accounting technology? . technology?is?the Today, technology has impacted accounting firms in a positive way. Accounting?technology?is?the