SocGen's management was being criticised for poor standards of disclosure well before news of the Kerviel affair broke: "They had not imposed the important discipline of transparency on themselves," says John Raymond of CreditSights, a research firm.
Clarification is needed about how resources and skills required for doing disclosure well can be best made available and what penetration of training is desirable given a service's geo-demographic catchment.
These plans could account for regional differences and would be based on best practices for disclosure, drilling location, well construction and wastewater treatment.
But a requirement for increased disclosure, as well as new limitations on the nature of the consulting work they can do, is likely to mean that some companies will choose to shift nonaccounting work from their auditing firm to a competitor.
The three questions, if answered affirmatively, would establish contacts between petitioner and Weisberg during the crucial period when the latter was eluding the grand jury; and in the context of these inquiries the last question might well have called for disclosure that Weisberg was hiding away on petitioner's premises or with his assistance.
Facts and figures about the spending of public money, the performance of public services, the statistical measurement of government activities - FOI has thrust a lot of this information into the public domain, and there are now many well-established precedents for disclosure of such data.
My findings highlight the utility of using a relational framework for understanding personal disclosure, as well as the influence of power on personal disclosure â the extent to which individuals can control the terms under which personal information is exchanged â demonstrating that imbalances in power between individuals and companies can affect individual decisions to disclose.
Factors that obstructed adherence were mentioned more often, and resided at the individual and interpersonal level (i.e., lack of food, fear for stigma and disclosure) as well as at the health care level (i.e., lack of privacy at the clinic, and insufficient availability or provision of pills).
However, many participants were unsure about suitable timing for disclosure and expressed a desire for more information as well as strategies for disclosure to offspring.
On the other hand, network effects that determine what information issuers chose to disclose as well as the high cost of determining what information is required for disclosure may lead issuers to fail to meet their disclosure duties.
