hutcheson - 2:12 am on Jan 25, 2006 (gmt 0)

>As a CFO she is responsible for helping to keep the stock's price as high as possible.

Wrong. In the U.S., she is responsible -- legally responsible, with criminal sanctions backing up that responsibility -- for giving accurate information about the state of the business, to all investors as well as the general public. Oxley-Sorbanes may have made a lot of executives more aware of that responsibility, but it has been there for years. The Enron, Worldcom, and Martha Stewart cases were prosecuted under per-OS laws.