Skechers (NYSE:SKX), maker of men’s and women’s shoes, recently purchased a used car for $120,000. Natural gas producer Chesapeake Energy (NYSE:CHK), just bought a historical map collection for $12.1 million. These purchases appear completely unrelated to the respective operations of these companies, but they do have one thing in common: these items were purchased from each company’s executives!

Since these transactions are taking place at fair market value, these don’t form part of executive pay (which can be found easily by following these instructions). Instead, they are just executive perks that most shareholders won’t ever know about. Her site is dedicated to reporting the items that companies try to bury in their routine SEC filings.

Reading Michelle’s site can make a shareholder (executive) depressed (excited)! Post after post reveals many an instance of shareholders getting ripped off without their knowledge. For example, Raytheon (NYSE:RTN) paid moving expenses of $229,000 for its CEO. What it costs to retain an executive should be part of his salary; it should not be buried in fine print. Until this is the case, we unfortunately have to spend hours on end digging through SEC disclosures, and we can take advantage of the fact that Michelle is doing some of the work for us!