CPA Reports

Green Canary (2005)

Altering Shareholders And Protecting Their Investments

Hidden Rivers (2006)

How Trade Associations Conceal Corporate Political Spending, Its Threat To Companies, And What Shareholders Can Do

Open Windows (2007)

How Codes of Conduct Regulate Corporate Political Spending And A Model Code of Conduct To Protect Company Interests And Shareholder Value

Taking Initiative (2008)

How Corporate Contributions to Ballot Measures Pose a Risk to Shareholders, Why Directors Need to Oversee This and Other Company Political Spending

Political Money: The Need for Director Oversight (2008)

The Conference Board Executive Action Series No. 263, April 2008. 

CPA Surveys

Survey of Shareholders (2006)

This first in-depth look at shareholder attitudes on corporate political spending found that an overwhelming majority believes that this activity can put corporations at legal risk and diminish shareholder value. Commissioned by the CPA and conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research, the survey is based on the views of 800 shareholders.

Survey of Directors (2008)

Members of boards of directors view political spending as a potentially risky pursuit and an overwhelmingly majority supports disclosure of corporate political activity, according to this survey of 225 directors commissioned by the CPA and conducted by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. Ironically, an overwhelming majority of directors possesses little knowledge of the rules and regulations governing corporate political activity.