Financial reports and the financial reporting process -- The law and accounting sandwich -- Environmental laws -- Environmental financial reporting : overview -- Financial reporting objectives -- Sarbanes-Oxley : overview -- Certifications -- Internal control -- Improper influence on the audit...

We evaluate the impact of the 2008 Apex Oil court decision that made the creditors of some corporations financially liable for the environmental damages caused by specific pollutants. Apex reduced the circumstances under which environmental liabilities were dischargeable in Chapter 11, which...

Modern energy and natural resource development has always been, at heart, a global enterprise. Energy companies and developers, by necessity, frequently work in far-flung locations scattered among nations with vastly different legal systems and environmental regulatory systems. If one of their...