FINC 8329 Corporate Finance

Corporate Governance (CorpGov.net) was founded in 1995 to provide news, commentary, and a network for those interested in transforming an arcane subject, discussed at a snail’s pace in academia and by a few dozen practitioners, to a more practical discipline where knowledge is shared and put into practice by investors and corporations at closer to the speed of light.

The purpose of the ECGI is to raise the standard of corporate governance around the world for the public good by sharing and promoting influentially high quality, independent research undertaken by our members.

The OECD Corporate Governance Factbook provides easily accessible and up-to-date information about the institutional, legal and regulatory frameworks for corporate governance across 50 jurisdictions worldwide. The Factbook complements the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance and can be used by governments, regulators and the private sector to compare their own frameworks with those of other countries and also to get information on practices in specific jurisdictions. The 2021 edition of the Factbook will be an important reference for the upcoming review of the G20/OECD Principles of Corporate Governance.

The AFL-CIO site contains a search interface that allows users to search for the pay of chief executive officers (CEOs). Users can search by company name, ticker symbol, and CEO name.

The Calvert Indexes include companies with strong sustainability profiles that, collectively, may have the potential to meet or exceed the performance of the common broad-market benchmarks.

The Global RepTrak® 100 is the definitive ranking of corporate reputation for the world’s leading companies. The Global RepTrak 100 showcases how people feel, think, and act towards companies globally. For over a decade, The RepTrak Company™ has ranked the top 100 most reputable companies to celebrate global reputation leaders.

The RepTrak Company measures a company’s corporate reputation using Reputation Scores - scores from 0-100 that measure how people feel towards a particular company. Reputation Scores demonstrate a strong positive relationship with business outcomes, such as people’s willingness to buy, recommend, or trust a company. The companies with the highest Reputation Scores made the top 100 ranking.

The Analyst Stock Recommendations are determined by taking an average of all analyst recommendations and classifying them as Strong Buy, Buy, Hold, Underperform or Sell. Also shows the analyst firms making the recommendations.

US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment is the leading voice advancing sustainable investing across all asset classes. Its mission is to rapidly shift investment practices toward sustainability, focusing on long-term investment and the generation of positive social and environmental impacts. Our members, representing $5 trillion in assets under management or advisement, include investment management and advisory firms, mutual fund companies, research firms, financial planners and advisors, broker-dealers, banks, credit unions, community development organizations, non-profit associations, and asset owners.

EDGAR Filings and Forms include 10-Ks (annual reports for US firms), 10-Qs (quarterly reports), 20-Fs (annual reports for foreign firms) and DEF 14As (proxy statements) of public companies from 1994 forward. All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Here you'll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.