Corporate Crime

Small-time Justice

The mergers game has become the greatest show on Wall Street, with huge companies gobbling each other up woth nary a protest from the trustbusters in Wash...  Read more

How To Detect And Prevent Business Fraud, By W. Steve Albrecht Et Al. Prentice-hall, Englewood Cliffs, Nj 07632; 277 Pp., $24.95.

Five experts (including a prison psychologist) analyze opportunities for white-collar crime and discuss ways -- both investigative and sociological -- to ...  Read more

Greed on Trial

Ex-Tyco chief executive, Dennis Kozlowski, is to appear in a Manhattan court today, accused of stealing $600 million from Tyco and its investors to suppor...  Read more

Study: Employee Fraud on the Rise

Inc. Business Owners Council recently commissioned a series of original research projects designed to help business owners make smarter decisions...  Read more

Be Careful What You Wish For

Silicon Valley companies thought an act of Congress would solve their problems with Bill Lerach and his shareholder lawsuits. But the reforms may end up back...  Read more

Price Fixing Rules Revisited

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal brought by a California handbag manufacturer that could lead to a review of the 95-year-old rules that defi...  Read more

Equifax Launches Business Fraud Advisor

The new tool offers business identity verification and fraud risk level segmentation.  Read more

Update

Price Law Overturned March 2007 Score one for manufacturers. In March, we wrote about an impending Supreme Court case tha...  Read more

To Catch a Thief

Corporate larceny is on the rise, thanks to technology and the globalization of the marketplace.  Read more

Selling;

As more small companies find themselves competing head-to-head with the Fortune 1,000, they are increasingly worried about the danger of predatory pricing...  Read more

Legal Brief: Pricing Pitfalls

An antitrust lawyer briefly discusses how offering price discounts could be illegal, and how to get more information.  Read more

Sarbanes-Oxley

On December 2, 2001, the Enron Corporation, a highly-respected and rapidly growing energy-trading company filed for bankruptcy. It had inflated its earnin...  Read more

An Ad Agency Wins One Round With Aftra

In 1969, Tom Di Noto founded Tuesday Productions Inc., a San Diego, Calif., company that creates musical jingles for television and radio commercials. At ...  Read more

Satyam to Target SMBs with New SaaS

A new Software as a Service (SaaS) platform aimed at small and midsize businesses  Read more

Regulatory enforcement crackdowns may be aimed at specific industries with a history of violations, while industries with above-average records can expect...  Read more

Toys for the Office

We went to the Toy Fair to look for fun products Inc. readers could use at the office , and found ...  Read more

But What Do You Major In?

Maybe the growing numbers of insider trading cases involving people in their twenties and thirties has convinced Scribner Bookstores Inc. that the younger...  Read more

Why Distributors Sue Manufacturers

The wrong move when selecting or terminating a dealer can lead to litigation.  Read more

How to Protect Your Business Against Fraud

Smaller firms, unfortunately, can be highly susceptible to incidents of fraud. Here's some advice on protecting your company and instituting a policy to prev...  Read more

Milk Fight

When Farmland Dairies broke up the New York City milk cartel, the real war began  Read more

House Of Corrections

Why not do a column with Forde, dealing with his insight into white-collar crime, his views on the criminal mind, his perspective of life on the outside a...  Read more

Court Sides With Small Business in Predatory Pricing Case

A California Supreme Court ruling that cracks down on predatory pricing is being hailed as victory for small businesses.  Read more

Yahoogle Not Happening

Stick a fork in it. The proposed deal for Google and Yahoo! to join forces running Google ads on Yahoo web sites is officially dead. This deal wa...  Read more

Priced Out

On the last day of its term, the Supreme Court handed down its decision on Leegin v. PSKS, a case we've been following in the pages of the Read more

The Earnings Management Crackdown

The SEC is cracking down hard on corporate earnings management ? but is your board? Everything from abuse of special charges to stuffing the sales pipelin...  Read more

SEC Confirms Sarbox Reprieve

Small firms have an extra year to comply with strict auditing rules created after Enron.  Read more

Audits, External

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Who Gets to Say When the Price is Right?

The Supreme Court weighs the conflicting rights of manufacturers and retailers.  Read more

Contempt of Court

How to avoid litigation and cut legal costs.  Read more

Are You Worried About Sarbanes-Oxley?

A lot of companies are sweating it out right now, since this is the year that smaller public companies are required to meet compliance. And compliance to ...  Read more

Resource: Fraud Patrol

A quick book reveiw of Fraud: Bringing Light to the Dark Side of Business.  Read more