1. Also on Wednesday, a senior Treasury Department official said accounting and corporate disclosure rules need to be strengthened. 2. Corporate disclosure, or lack of it, takes many forms in Asia. 3. Edgar Online Inc., which uses the Internet to retrieve corporate disclosure documents for on-line customers, hit the market the same day and has barely moved since. 4. For the first time, Bush called for government action to force greater corporate disclosure of financial information. 5. He referred to the Republican legislation on corporate disclosure, supported by Rep. Michael G. Oxley, R-Ohio, as sound. 6. House Republicans are circulating proposals for post-Enron legislation that they say would strengthen federal standards for auditor independence and corporate financial disclosure. 7. International Software Development routinely used a trust company on the Isle of Man, another British island requiring little in the way of corporate disclosure. 8. Quarterly and annual reports would replace registration statements and prospectuses as the primary avenue of corporate disclosure. 9. The code also lays down general principals for corporate disclosure of finances and management and defines the responsibilities of a board of directors. 10. The office address of International Software Development is on Jersey, the island off Britain where corporate disclosure is virtually absent. |