Monthly Archives: June 2018

SEC approves higher thresholds for smaller reporting companies

  Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved changes to the definition of a “smaller reporting company,” or SRC, that will significantly increase the availability of the less burdensome, scaled disclosure requirements applicable to companies qualifying as SRCs .  The amendments increase the public float threshold for qualification as an SRC from less than $75 million to less than $250 million, in each case regardless of the company’s revenues.  In addition,… More

Most executives are probably underpaid

Every day it seems there is another outcry over excessive executive compensation at public companies.  This year, for the first time, public companies are disclosing ratios of CEO compensation to median employee compensation, and both the media and politicians are quick to highlight pay ratios in excess of 1,000-to-one as evidence of everything that is wrong with executive compensation.

Yet these complaints have a certain air of unreality to them,… More