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We live in an era where management and investors want access to the most up-to-date financial information now rather than later. This means management needs to make informed decisions, implement [...]

The issue of limiting carbon emissions has recently commanded international attention. Starting with the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, world markets have begun to coalesce around the notion that carbon dioxide ([CO.sub.2]) [...]

XBRL has arrived! Since November 2005, firms have been submitting their financial data to the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format on a voluntary [...]

The article presents a discussion on measures that must be taken to ensure the security of electronic mail messages. The most common way to prevent someone from reading e-mails is to use software to encrypt it, thus rendering it incomprehensible to anyone without the decoder, or key. And with today's fast computers, it does it so quickly that people are not even aware of the time it takes to perform the translation. There are two major commercial encryption standards in use today: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. PGP is the most widely accepted tool. Like a safe-deposit box, it uses two keys--one private and one public--only its keys are complex electronic passwords. To read a PGP-encrypted message, both keys are needed. Private keys, or passwords, should never be divulged by the sender. Public keys, however, which are distributed to all potential e-mail recipients, can be distributed through e-mail, posted on a Web site or registered with a digital certificate authority.