"It certainly WOULD benefit the company AND more importantly the shareholders."
I'm afraid that in the universe I inhabit, wilfully ignoring the legal requirements that one willingly and knowingly accepts when appointed as a company officer is never a good thing.
And putting the shareholders in jeopardy of an SEC suspension is also considered a bad thing where I come from.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Upton Sinclair
"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
H. L. Mencken