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FDIC FYI
May 30, 2002 |
Financial Transparency and Regulatory Policy The importance of financial transparency and investor confidence in financial markets can hardly be overstated in the current environment...   |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
You Say IASB, I Say FASB, You Say... A description of efforts to harmonize U.S. and international accounting standards, and shifts in the accounting profession caused by recent scandals. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
No More Mr. Nice Guy A new CFO survey suggests why new rules for auditors may be a wise idea. |
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What Must Be Done? The experts weigh in on how to prevent future Enrons... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2002
Ray Milnes |
Audit Committees -- A Perspective on Utilizing Internal Audit Resources A brisk current of regulatory change is sweeping through America's corporate boardrooms aimed at strengthening the independence and effectiveness of corporate audit committees, including those of REITs and other publicly traded real estate companies... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
A Rescue Plan to Save the Beleaguered Accounting Industry A new book called Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting does not break much new ground, but it does an admirable job of tying together a number of topics that have challenged the accounting industry and providing a framework for financial reporting in the future. |
IDB America
June 2001
Daniel Drosdoff |
What do you mean by "profitable"? Why Latin American companies and societies have much to gain from adopting a new set of international accounting standards |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Feeling Burned by Accounting Scams in the U.S.? Just Look Overseas Self-dealing and the misappropriation of profits at the expense of minority shareholders is much more common in other countries due to the weaker legal measures protecting such stockholders. |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Alan Lavine |
Apples To Apples Expect a pop in equity valuations, increased liquidity and lower trading costs as foreign companies list stocks in the United States using International Financial Reporting Standards. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 10, 2003 |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Readers respond: Legislation is a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior... Investors are always free to vote on the adequacy of a company's financial transparency with their dollars... The more transparency there is, the better... etc. |
InternetNews
July 20, 2004
Roy Mark |
House Votes to Block Stock Option Expensing The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation supported by the tech industry to pre-empt a proposed federal accounting regulation calling for corporations to deduct the cost of all employee stock options from their profits. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
D.J. Gannon |
Small World Financial reporting standards will eliminate many of the adjustments investment advisors historically have made to allow companies' financials to be more comparable internationally. |
CFO
May 1, 2003
Arthur Levitt |
You Are the Guardians Former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt offers some pointed advice on how to restore confidence in corporate accounting. |
CFO
August 1, 2007
Kate O'Sullivan |
The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before. |
CFO
October 1, 2011
Sarah Johnson |
Making Audits More Audible New rules would require auditors to speak up about possible problems, and describe in more detail what they do and don't look at. |
CFO
July 1, 2007
Scott Leibs |
Five Years and Accounting This story is Part 1 in a three-part series on how corporate finance has changed since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed. |
CFO
October 1, 2002 |
Reform: How the Corporate Landscape Is Changing Everyone from Congress to the journalist next door has a reform proposal to promote. This article assesses the likelihood of passage as well as the potential impact of several proposals. |
National Defense
February 2014
Jay B. Stephens |
Companies Need Sound Governance In publicly-traded aerospace and defense companies, strong internal controls in an organization -- especially in business units far from the mother ship -- are essential to transparency and process fidelity. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 24, 2003
Jim Heskett |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? Transparency in financial accounting: are we addressing symptoms or causes? |
Real Estate Portfolio
July 2000
Richard M. Jeanneret |
No More "Hocus-Pocus" Until more guidance is provided, it is essential that companies develop their own framework for assessing reporting quality, one that promotes a common vocabulary and understanding about quality among audit committee members, senior management, and auditors... |
HBS Working Knowledge
February 4, 2013
Martha Lagace |
Are the 'Big Four' Audit Firms Too Big to Fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and PwC, is a tightening oligopoly, increasingly insulated from the risks of failure. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
Foundation News & Commentary
Jul/Aug 2005
Andras Kosaras |
Thinking About an Audit? Read This First What kinds of grantmakers get audits and how should a foundation choose an auditor if it opts for this process? |
Knowledge@Wharton
January 29, 2003 |
Lawyers and Accountants Can Expect Curbs and Compromises in New SEC Rules Recent rules adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to curb the kind of legal and accounting shenanigans that toppled companies like Enron and Arthur Andersen are not as strong as the SEC first indicated they might be. But do they still have enough teeth to work? |
CFO
August 1, 2012
Randy Myers |
Unfinished Business Two years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the law's implementation is far behind schedule, and its success is still in doubt. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2002
William D. Sanders |
Working Toward Improved Disclosure Every publicly traded real estate company shares the responsibility to provide clear, transparent financial information to investors... |
Trusts & Estates
March 21, 2002 |
AICPA Campaigns To Repair Damage To Reputation Caused By Enron Scandal The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is trying to ensure that its reputation is not sullied by the recent scandal involving Enron and the role that improper financial reporting played in it. |
The Motley Fool
November 17, 2006
S.J. Caplan |
A Brave New World for Bean Counters? Accounting firms advocate a radical overhaul of the financial reporting system. Will it be an investor's utopian dream or are they seeking to insulate themselves from the fury of shareholders burned by fraud? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Do Accountants Who Act as Consultants Take Greater Care or Cut Corners? New Wharton research challenges the idea that lucrative consulting contracts routinely lead auditors to look the other way when preparing financial audits, a key allegation in the scandals at WorldCom, Tyco and Enron. |
CFO
April 15, 2012 |
No Easy Answer Readers comment on cash management ("Money to Burn")... tax regulation ("IRS Kills Tax Reg")... prescription benefits ("Companies May Win This Drug War")... and more... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Special Issue 2005
Yungmann & Agarwal |
One World, One GAAP Global businesses and international investors are increasingly demanding accounting information that they can understand when running businesses and making investment decisions on a worldwide basis. |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Michelle Leder |
Rewriting the Rules Everything you thought you knew about accounting is about to change. Is there any reason to smile? This is the third of a three-part series examining the state of accounting five years after passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
HRO Today
Heller & Della Torre |
Audits of Outsourced Retirement Plans Relying on CPAs to turn up potential issues now is a better alternative than for plan participants or the IRS to discover shortcomings. |
CFO
August 1, 2004 |
The Enforcer If audit firms don't voluntarily improve their processes, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) chairman William McDonough promises he'll make them. |
IDB America
June 2001
Daniel Drosdoff |
International accounting standards: A good investment A corporate finance expert explains why better accounting standards boost confidence and attract investors... |
National Defense
December 2009
McGrath & Connolly |
Industry Should Prepare for Review of Ethics Programs Contractors may soon have more complete answers as to how the Defense Department will verify contractor compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation's recent ethics program requirements. |
Wall Street & Technology
April 14, 2006
Govind Sandhu |
Beyond Registration Persistent compliance efforts may be one of the most critical investments in the success of today's hedge funds. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Vincent Ryan |
Death by Committee? As SEC and Treasury Department committees on financial reporting and auditing near their conclusions, it looks like the former may be more fruitful than the latter. |
Salon.com
January 28, 2002
Michael Drummond |
Class-action warrior When corporations run amok and accountants are shredding documents, who ya gonna call? Try lawyer Bill Lerach... |
Finance & Development
March 2009
Amar Bhattacharya |
A Tangled Web Everyone agrees on reforming the governance of financial markets, but who will do what remains unclear. |
Financial Planning
January 1, 2005
Abigail La Croix |
5 Questions Michael R. Young, a litigation attorney and partner at New York law firm Wilkie Farr & Gallagher, shares his perspective on financial reporting and the securities industry, with particular emphasis on accounting irregularities. |
Bank Director
3rd Quarter 2010
Charles Keenan |
Front-burner Issues for the Audit Committee The audit committee's roles and responsibilities continue to broaden as evolving regulation and increasing demands for risk oversight turn up the heat on bank boards. |
U.S. Banker
March 2008
Christopher Myers et al. |
SOX Relief for Smaller Banks The SEC and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board apparently agree that SOX may be too burdensome on small companies, and some relief may be on the horizon. |
Investment Advisor
June 2008
Mark Tibergien |
Truth and Consequence Are more regulations for the financial services sector really needed, or just better enforcement of what's now on the book? |
Salon.com
September 25, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Investors of the world, unite! Former chairman of the SEC Arthur Levitt declares the time is ripe for fighting back against Wall Street. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 3, 2003
Jim Heskett |
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency? The collapse of companies like Enron and WorldCom cost investors tens of billions of dollars. But that amount may be dwarfed by the cost of conforming to new laws driven by those corporate scandals -- laws that are intended to protect investors. |
Finance & Development
September 2009
Randall Dodd |
Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal. |
Reason
January 2006
Brian Doherty |
You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation. |
National Defense
August 2014
Jamal Ahmed |
Eight Easy Steps to Ethics Success To this day, "betterment" is a concept synonymous with the construction, engineering, staffing and defense firm, Day & Zimmerman. |
The Motley Fool
June 30, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
The Supreme Court Spares Sarbanes-Oxley Fortunately, the Court appears to have upheld the spirit of accounting transparency for the good of investors. |
