The Oct. 1 edition of CEO Notes highlighted a slew of useful corporate governance resources. I've hand picked some of the best tools the newsletter's editors recommended:

• PriceWaterhouseCoopers ValueReporting: "an innovative approach to performance measurement, corporate reporting, and greater transparency"
• Standard & Poor's Core Earnings: "a new methodology to lead investors and analysts to a consensus on earnings calculations and bring more transparency and consistency to earnings analysis and forecasts"
• Balanced Scorecard Collaborative: "offers a wide variety of services for organizations at any stage of developing and using the Balanced Scorecard"
• Human Capital Analysis: "a step-by-step process to determine how to manage headcount and help cut bottom line costs"
• Corporate Governance Quotient: "a tool for monitoring and comparing the corporate governance structures of Americas leading publicly-traded companies"
• The Corporate Library: "international corporate governance research"