Current reporting rules force companies to include pension and share payments.

Analysts say competitive pressures force companies to seek to minimise all costs, including tax.

Analysts say competitive pressures force companies to seek to minimize all costs, including tax.

IFRS rules force companies to report their gross derivatives exposure.

The new rules force companies to give more detail on executive pay, including pension benefits.

Some business groups complain that such measures will force companies to reveal commercially sensitive information.

Stronger public pressure will eventually start to force companies and governments to take action, said Sukhdev.

But not everyone supports efforts to force companies to use a specific amount of recycled material.

Federal securities laws force companies to publicly disclose more financial information if they have 500 investors.

But many users are not in a hurry to force companies to change their data practices.

Although Congress cannot approve or block deals, lawmakers can force companies to abandon their merger plans.

That could force companies to raise fresh capital or put pressure on dividend payments to shareholders.

And iwi say new rules that force companies to talk to them could actually work against them.

And Canada wants more freedom to force companies to provide preferential treatment to protect its French heritage.

It will also be able to force companies to seek approval annually for interconnection and infrastructure-sharing terms.

The Senate Banking Committee has also toyed with schemes that would force companies to pay platform users.