Investors to FASB: We Need Tax Transparency Investors with over $2.9T in assets under management called on the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) to prioritize public country-by-country tax reporting as part of FASB’s future standard-setting agenda. Signatories represented a broad coalition of asset managers, public pension funds, labor funds, international investors, foundations, and religious investors. […]
Take Action: Bartlett Naylor of Public Citizen sent me the following draft sign-on comment letter to FASB/SEC regarding their concept release to redefine “materiality” from information that “could” be important to investors to information that “would” be considered important. If you agree with us that regulators shouldn’t be reducing the volume information that “could” be […]
(Endorse our investor sign-on letter by sending an e-mail with your name, title and organization to Sanfordlewis@gmail.com) Should Companies Disclose More Information To Investors About the Liabilities They Face? by Sanford Lewis, Counsel, Investor Environmental Health Network When investors are unaware of impending financial pain at the companies in their portfolios, they often face expensive […]