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The Scotts Company. (2001). The Scotts Company annual report pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(D) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the Eiscal Year Ended September 30, 2000, Marysville (OH). The Scotts Company (2001).The Scotts Company Quarterly Report Pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(D) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the Quarterly Period Ending March 31, 2001, Marysville (OH). 

The Scotts Company. (2001). The Scotts Company annual report pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(D) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 for the Eiscal Year Ended... 

For investor protection, Congress passed the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These acts provided government oversight on U.S. capital to prevent the kind of fraud that had resulted in the 1929 stock market crash. In 1934, Congress established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to enforce the new laws and to provide stability for U.S. capital markets (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2007). 

Governance Forces The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002 (also known as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Public Law 107-204) was passed after the well-publicized corporate governance failures starting in 2001.The intent of the act was to strengthen corporate governance and financial disclosure rules under the Security and Exchange Commission s (SEC) rules for publicly traded companies. 

Interest rate swaps are over-the-counter instruments. This means that they are not traded on an exchange. An institutional investor wishing to enter into a swap transaction can do so through either a securities firm or a commercial bank that transacts in swaps. These entities can do one of the following. First, they can arrange or broker a swap between two parties that want to enter into an interest rate swap. In this case, the securities firm or commercial bank is acting in a brokerage capacity. 

Technically this synchronization acts like the PLM integration described in Sect. 16.6.1, but of course with a much more complex logic to secure the process and to avoid the exchange of imauthorized data. The most significant difference is the location of the Partner Hub in the demilitarized network zone of one partner or... 

Another important area impacting financial performance is conflict minerals, which has been a topic of discussion for quite some time. These are minerals mined from areas of the world where armed conflict and human rights abuses occur. Recently, this topic has gained special attention. Section 1502 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires certain companies using conflict minerals in their products to disclose the source of these minerals. Even though an estimated 6,000 companies will be directly impacted by this rule, many private companies within the supply chains of those companies will also be affected. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission expects the cost of compliance to be substantial for all involved. For primary companies and their suppliers, initial estimates for cost of compliance are between US 3 billion and US 4 billion, with annual costs thereafter of between US 207 million and US 609 million. ... 

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