In an emerging trend, chief executive officers and chief financial officers of companies settling U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission financial reporting cases are personally paying back bonuses and other incentive-based compensation, despite the absence of accusations of personal misconduct or formal SEC actions against them individually.
Already in 2016, several top executives have returned compensation — from tens of thousands to millions of dollars — after their companies allegedly engaged in accounting improprieties.
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