In the United States large food companies, have " assumed a powerful role in setting the standards for organic foods . " Many members of standard-setting boards come from large food corporations.
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It is aimed at a proposal by the rule-setting board for accounting practices to force publicly traded companies to record as an expense all forms of share-based payments to employees, including stock options.
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The selection of top Bush fund-raisers came a day after an Associated Press review found that a third of Bush's top 2000 fund-raisers were appointed by him to ambassadorships or seats on policy-setting boards.
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He said the standard-setting board will be able to devise a formula for valuing compensation in the form of stock options _ a calculation opponents contend is too tricky and relies on predicting future economic events.
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Paul Loebenstein, a member of the bank's policy-setting board who represents minority private shareholders, handed in his resignation a day before the government was expected to name a buyer for its 70-percent voting stake in the bank.
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The feeling the economy has declined rapidly " arose from the fact that the economy in late 1999 was simply running at an unsustainable pace, " she said, echoing sentiments expressed last year by the Fed's rate-setting board.
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AcSOC serves the public interest by playing a key role in Canadian financial reporting by overseeing and evaluating the performance of, and providing input into, the activities of Canada s accounting standard-setting boards the AcSB and PSAB.
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The rule-setting board for accounting on Wednesday moved toward requiring companies to deduct from the bottom line the cost of stock options given to executives and employees, an action with profound consequences for profits and executive pay in Corporate America.
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Indeed, the Federal Reserve's rate-setting board, known as the Federal Open Market Committee, raised the Federal funds rate seven times to keep the brakes on inflation as the economy grew rapidly in 1994 and early 1995, before trimming twice last year.
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After a number of spectacular audit failures _ Cendant, Sunbeam and RiteAid _ Levitt undertook a campaign that included beefing up the tasks of audit committees within corporate boards, establishing an Independent Standards Board for oversight and working closely with the Financial Standards Accounting Board, a audit rule-setting board.
