CEO compensation : a question of ethics /

The outrageous corporate accounting and fraud scandals in the past years have all but demolished investors' faith in our accounting framework. One big area of concern is executive compensation. In 1992, Congress enacted section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, which limited executive comp...

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Main Author: Cole, James Harrison
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 2004.
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Online Access:Link to OAK Trust copy

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