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The roles for these two acts are to monitor the trades and mutual fund trading, stocks and bonds of companies and financial professions and also to monitor any fraud or internal deception going on. The Acts required companies to report the compensation of the top three executives. This brought about many companies finding loopholes to earn higher salaries. One of which was called performance pay, which was considered a bonus for a job well done. In hindsight this act established very little to regulate CEOS high pay. CEOS’ are now taking many risks and taking part in questionable methods to earn a bigger performance

Stock options are another main concern and are based upon the performance of a company. A lot of companies are in a low return and low compensation which then caused bad business and it’s about 400 times that amount. I believe the government is trying to tighten down on excessive executive compensation with implementing salary caps. Executives are unrealistic with common life and way of living therefore; they do not take any consideration with the underdogs of the company or the world. The economy does have hope but it’s a long way from being stabilized once again.

The Institute for Policy Studies in Washington found that five elements in the tax code encourage overpaying executives, which can cost the American people up to $20 billion a year (Doc A). $20 billion is no small sum and could instead be used to increase the standard of living in America. With this extra taxpayer money, the US could provide healthcare to millions or slash infant mortality rates across the globe. Instead, it goes into another personal account in the Cayman’s. CEO

The second compensation package was not well designed nor did it help define what the corporate strategy would be. For a second time the compensation package focused on maximizing shareholder’s wealth and didn’t take into consideration the stakeholder’s position at all. Dunlap’s package was deeply weighted in company options ($3.75M). In fact it was weighted heavier than before. The stock grants were

Over the past twenty years, America has seen a substantial amount of change and development amongst many technological industries. Old ideas have been revolutionized. Technology has been continuously upgraded time and time again. Americans slowly have to do less and less because new inventions are constantly increasing their abilities to do more for us. Cars are getting faster, phones are getting smarter and before we know it, 2-dementional televisions will be a thing of the past. Despite everything that is growing around us there are still few things that have stayed the same; for example, the average American income for 99

It was reasonable for a CEO’s compensation to increase as the company expanded and became a larger entity, and the newly-granted shares and increasing stock options further aligned the CEO’s personal interests with those of the company and shareholders. In this sense, the second compensation package was also well-structured and not excessive. Seeing Sunbeam’s revenue rising and stock price climbing steeply upwards, Sunbeam’s shareholders and directors were fully convinced by Dunlap’s leadership, so they might perceive the increase in compensation amount necessary to retain and better motivate Dunlap to enhance the company’s value. Nonetheless, they neglected the fact that the increased portion of the equity-based compensation also further motivated the CEO’s dangerous behaviors pertaining to improper earnings management.

While these citizen protests and legislative actions could be an overreaction to a few isolated cases of executive compensation excess, the data suggests otherwise. According to the AFL-CIO (2013), executive pay has increased dramatically over the past several decades compared to worker compensation. In 1982, the pay ratio between executives and workers was 42:1, but by 2012 it had increased to 354:1. This 8.4-fold differential in compensation suggests that the productivity of executives has also increased 8.4-fold relative to productivity of workers. If executive pay is positively correlated with a firm's bottom line, then higher pay should predict success. Unfortunately, researchers have found the opposite to be true.

“The first thing Violand saw was a gun, then the gunman, ‘I quickly dove under a desk, ’he recalled, ‘that was the desk I chose to die under.’ “(Maraniss). While the U.S. constitution says Americans have the right to bear arms, firearms continue to threaten our schools, work and religious areas. Regardless of the danger that guns possess some states have passed a bill to allow campus carry, which grants professors and college students the choice to carry a firearm on college or university campuses. Although, we have seen the amount of influence that firearms have caused in the past a good amount of public still supports the claim that guns are a reasonable source of protection. However, while many in favor of campus carry view it as a safety precaution, campus carry should not be allowed because there is no evidence that proves campus carry will keep students safer and carrying a concealed weapon can distract from the learning environment.

This report explores the issue of the pay that top executives make, and the reasons why they do. It also suggests improvements that can be made to make the system better. High Pay Seems Small When Compared To Company Profits Many companies pull in profits that are extremely high. When an employee of such a companies salary is compared to the amount of profit that the company earns, it starts to seem reasonable. It only makes sense that if the employee is directly responsible for the success of their company, then they deserve to get their payback. It seems ironic, but many salaries even look small once compared with a companies profits. Top Executives Are Under A Lot Of Pressure Being the CEO of a

Have you ever wanted to read a fantastic poem well then here’s the answer ‘’ The Highwayman’’ by Alfred Noyes is a wonderful poem. It is because it is about a wild highwayman who finds the love of his life in a town that he was planning to rob. After they meet he says he’ll go get some gold from the bank. After that a man named Tim the ostler sent some of king George's men to get the highwayman but, instead they capture the girl and she then shoots herself to warn the highwayman of the trap.

Executives and those responsible for misdeeds should have been subject to significant clawbacks of compensation. If the reason they misbehaved and took inappropriate risks was to raise compensation, losing that compensation would be an appropriate punishment.

The nature of politics has often been described with words such as “greed” and “dishonesty” making it a theme found in numerous literary works including George Orwell's Animal Farm and William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Animal Farm tells the story of Napoleon, a pig, his subsequent rise to power as the leader of Animal Farm and the corrupt techniques he undertakes to ensure this. Similarly, Macbeth is a play about a Scottish nobleman named Macbeth and the savage methods he uses to satisfy his obsession of becoming the King of Scotland. Animal Farm and Macbeth both demonstrate the corruptive desire found in politics and offer insight into this occurrence in relationship to real-life political leaders. Animal Farm and Macbeth are similar as the

This is in sharp contrast to the US, where these two components account for 25% and 39% of total payment, respectively (Fernandes et al., 2012 and Schultz et al., 2013). In addition, Murphy (2013) and Schultz et al. (2013) argue that US companies remuneration model is based on tax policies that place a $1 million cap on deductible cash remuneration and US stock exchange listing rules that encourage equity and options components of remuneration. However, comparable inducements in form of regulated payments are not observed in the Australian market (Schultz et al., 2013) and normally, these incentives promote shareholders’ wealth by aligning managers and stock holders interests.

CEO compensation has been a heated debate for many years recently, and it can be argued

Executive Compensation has many different definitions. For simplicity of this paper, the definition used will be that of the Center on Executive Compensation which is defined as a “broad term for the financial