ADVISORY/Former SEC Chairman and Enron Financial Executive Discuss Impact of Whistleblower Law.Business Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Dec. 3) MAYNARD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 25, 2003 Shareholder.com Hosts Live Webcast Advocating the Benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley 301 Mandate At 1:00 p.m. (EST EST electroshock therapy. EST abbr. electroshock therapy ) on Wednesday, December 3, 2003, Shareholder.com, a leader in providing investor communications solutions, will host a panel discussion featuring former SEC Chairman Harvey Pitt and Lynn Brewer, a former Enron financial executive who witnessed much of the fraudulent activities that took place at that company. This webcast, Whistleblower whis·tle·blow·er or whis·tle-blow·er or whistle blower n. One who reveals wrongdoing within an organization to the public or to those in positions of authority: "The Pentagon's most famous whistleblower is . . Hotlines: More Than A Mandate, is the first open forum on new federal legislation within Section 301 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act See SOX. (SOX), requiring public companies to document and protect reports by employees of accounting and auditing irregularities at their companies. Joining Pitt and Brewer are David Smith, Chairman of the American Society of Corporate Secretaries, and David Kaufman David Kaufman may be:
The SOX Clock is Ticking In less than two months the new whistleblower mandate of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act takes effect. While the mandate is absolute, guidance on how to implement and manage a whistleblower hotline is vaguely-worded in Sarbanes-Oxley. The panel will discuss the subject in detail, including the inherent benefits of this capability and potential legal consequences of failing to implement a program effectively. Registration Corporate executives, legal and financial professionals, and anyone interested in this subject can attend this free webcast which will include an online Q&A session for all attendees. To register, visit www.shareholder.com before December 3, 2003 or call 978-461-3153. About Shareholder.com With headquarters in Maynard, Mass., and offices in Amsterdam, London and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Shareholder.com has for over a decade helped public companies improve their relationships with shareholders. More than 750 companies around the world, including Coca-Cola Enterprises Coca-Cola Enterprises NYSE: CCE is the largest bottler by volume in the Coca-Cola System. It is the anchor bottler for North America and parts of Europe. The company is the bottler of Coca-Cola and its other soft drink products, and in some areas a few other soft drink , Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble and Yahoo! rely on Shareholder.com for vital communications with the investment community. For more information, please visit www.shareholder.com. |
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