Corporate governance & accounting

The shoemaker's now-filed quarterly report discloses talks with its bankers

Liberty Media's new director isn't independent - he's the son of chairman John Malone

On top of every other problem, now it can't file its 10-Q on time

Ernst & Young settles with the SEC over charges it wasn't really indepepndent

The Parent Co. toys with its investors by delaying disclosure on its new borrowing

The battered shoemaker gives us more bad news

The popular financial site trains its scope on Colorado companies' disclosures

Two executive-pay prosoposals pass - with the help of the people who devised them

One reader applauds MDC's management, while another said ProLogis' house-buying benefit is common

The strip-club owner says goodbye to its chief financial officer as it fails to file a 10-K (UPDATED with new CFO)

Local financial pros and regulators weigh on on a major proposal to shake up federal financial regulation

The security company files to file its annual report for a host of reasons

The company says its own press releases and conference calls "generate more controversy than clarity."

The local shareholder activist is busy putting proposals on proxies

The IRS claimed $2 billion of inappropriate deductions, but Liberty has to give up just $546 million of them

The mutual-fund manager takes an $18.2 million loss after stepping in to protect investors in its money-market funds

Level 3 files an 8-K for material events without admitting it's material

American International Group could be "a huge opportunity." Unless it has something to hide.

EchoStar isn't the only Colorado company correcting old errors, says research firm Audit Analytics

The satellite company had one of the biggest accounting adjustments in 2007, according to a new report

The readers of footnoted.org crown Qwest the champ for stupidest footnote of the year

Qwest's disclosure of CEO Ed Mueller's family airplane use is a runaway winner at a national Web site

If our government were a stock, you should short it

The transactions at Discovery Holding will result in - surprise, surprise - no taxes

Small public companies to get yet another reprieve?

A new headquarters, and a new auditing firm

The Douglas County money-mover adopts the majority-voting rule for director elections

Sears' Eddie Lampert is the worst CEO of the year, says MarketWatch's Herb Greenberg.

The AMEX will allow the Colorado Springs company until Feb. 14 to get its third-quarter report filed

Neal Lipschutz of the Dow Jones Newswires is stepping out and defending today's SEC ruling

As feared by investor advocates, the SEC voted today to allow companies to block shareholder access to proxies.

A disagreement with management? Far from it, in the departure of an MDC director. (UPDATED with compensation).

U.S. Bancorp should have known what a VISA settlement would cost it, but the number didn't make it into the company's third-quarter filing.

(This post updated with additional information on fines and penalties.) CFO magazine's Web site reports 59 percent more enforcement actions in the year ended Sept. 30. Penalties were down, however.

A rundown of companies who failed to file their quarterly reports shows varied reasons for misssing the deadline

The outsourcing company revises its disclosure to provide more details on what went wrong.

A Colorado mining company shows you can get stock-option pricing just plain wrong

A DU professor says the government's arguments against Joe Nacchio's appeal are "powerful" and "pure artistry."

Qwest's recent profit, as well as automaker GM's gigantic loss, have something in common: They didn't represent one dime in cash gained or lost last quarter.

There's an accounting implication to Qwest's recent issues with some bonds.

Westmoreland Coal is having trouble making its filings with the SEC. It's nothing new.

A story on financial wires this week may have led readers to think Qwest had a credit problem. The reverse is true.