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BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
David Henry |
Fuzzy Numbers Despite the reforms, corporate profits can be as distorted and confusing as ever. Here's how the game is played.   |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Looking for Evidence of Accounting Chicanery? Try Digging Deeper Companies do not disclose financial improprieties in footnotes or in the Management's Discussion & Analysis section of a financial statement. Instead, the warning flags are buried in 10Ks and other financial reports... |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2004
David Henry |
Where's That Quarterly Report? Companies, striving to clean up their books, are filing late -- and seeing shares fall. |
BusinessWeek
October 13, 2003
Anne Tergesen |
A Closer Look at All Those Write-offs Once rare, they're now all too common. Here's how to weigh their hit to the bottom line. |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Alix Nyberg |
Regulation: Pitt and the Pendulum The kinder, gentler SEC Pitt envisioned vanished faster than you can say Arthur Andersen. Can he run a tougher, meaner agency? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Will Expensing Stock Options Create New Problems? Even as politicians and the media vilify stock options, experts from Wharton and elsewhere are asking if the blame is being misdirected, and if the solutions being adopted might bring about new problems. |
The Motley Fool
December 15, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Hoping for Progress The beleaguered software maker steps up to the plate to deliver its earnings report for fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2006. Investors, take note. |
InternetNews
July 23, 2010 |
Dell Socked With $100 Million in SEC Fines Michael Dell and other execs also have to cough up millions for accounting trickery and failing to disclose key financial information to investors. |
CFO
September 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Standing on Principles In a world with more regulation than ever, can the accounting rulebook be thrown away? |
The Motley Fool
October 8, 2010
Travis Hoium |
Fuqi International Shares Popped: What You Need to Know I am wary of any company being investigated by the SEC, so watch that you don't get caught in an avalanche if it finds something. |
Wired
February 2002
Adam Lashinsky |
The Post-Enron Economy Sometimes it takes a meltdown to force regulators into action... |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Amy Borrus |
Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Little Scoundrels The SEC has a new plan to turn up the heat on small-time Wall Street fraudsters. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
March 14, 2012
Diana Britton |
SEC Goes After Venture Capital B/D Over Sale of Facebook Shares The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against New York-based venture capital broker/dealer Felix Investments and the firm's founder Frank Mazzola. |
Entrepreneur
April 2002
Jennifer Pellet |
Tough Enough Despite speculations of a kinder SEC, Harvey Pitt is cracking down on business... |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2002
George Taninecz |
Cost Accounting Undercuts Lean Switching to simpler accounting methods gives a more realistic reflection of the benefits of lean manufacturing. |
The Motley Fool
January 24, 2006
Tim Beyers |
EMC's Uncertain Inventory Equation Inventory grows twice as fast as sales for the second quarter in a row. Yikes. The question, then, is whether investors are being compensated (i.e., a cheaper stock) for the added risk. |
CFO
May 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
The SEC Has a Few Questions for You This is the envelope no CFO looks forward to opening, even if the inquiry proves to be fairly routine. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Intel May as Well Restate Earnings Employee stock options, which Intel feels aren't worth measuring on the income sheets, cost the chip maker almost 20% of last quarter's earnings. |
The Motley Fool
June 9, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
National Semiconductor: A Second Bite at the Cherry A tech slide gives folks another shot at an improving semiconductor story. Investors, take note. |
BusinessWeek
February 9, 2004
Faith Arner |
Kodak's Fuzzy Numbers The company has taken "one-time" charges every year for the past 12. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Two Weeks in January The SEC put much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into effect by passing a slew of new rules. Here's what was proposed and what was disposed. |
CFO
Edward Teach & Tim Reason |
Lies, Damn Lies, and Pro Forma Pro forma earnings reports may be a cause du jour of reformers, but CFOs aren't about to back down from issuing them... |
The Motley Fool
October 13, 2004
Bill Mann |
Intel's Mongolian Contortionist Act Intel missed its earnings projection, but its inventories dropped. Or did they? Things are not what they seem at Intel. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Lexmark's Earnings, Inventory Grow The tech world's No. 2 printer maker, Lexmark International, saw its shares take a bit of a nosedive this morning. |
CFO
September 1, 2012
Kathleen Hoffelder |
SEC Report Backs Away from Convergence The commission's staff expresses hesitation about merging international standards and U.S. GAAP. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2005
Rich Duprey |
Inside the SEC Filing Maze Need help digging out information before you invest? Let us give you a hand. Here's a map to some of the best sites to help you navigate the maze. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Do High Consulting Fees Compromise the Independence of CPA Firms? Key components of the audit process---the independence and objectivity of auditors---may be eroding, according to some industry observers. |
CFO
January 10, 2007 |
In Whose Best Interest? How Accounting Firms Would Change Their Industry... Why Performance Scorecards Still Fail... The Uninspired American Employee... M&A and Option Backdating... The CFO as Investor-Relations Professional... etc. |
Wall Street & Technology
September 21, 2004
Beth Bacheldor |
Looking for Trouble Under new IT leadership, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is upgrading technology to become a better watchdog and maintain market confidence. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
Andrew Park |
Profits: "The Fog Is Beginning to Lift" With the economy's biggest worries behind it, earnings look set to keep heading up |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2004
J. Graham |
Earnings Madness Quarterly corporate earnings dominate the financial media. Earnings releases send investors into a flurry of buying the winners and selling the losers. But you should be looking beyond what you see in the news. |
| 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. |
CFO
March 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
Nonplussed by Non-GAAP CFOs are dismayed and discouraged by the SEC's approach to non-GAAP reporting. |
The Motley Fool
October 12, 2004
Nathan Parmelee |
Cisco's Signal Is Fading Inventory and accounts receivable growth are outpacing sales. Cisco's 2005 isn't a cakewalk financially, and investors should keep a close eye on the balance sheet. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
For Shareholders, Secrecy Stinks You can't have good corporate governance without transparency. |
Knowledge@Wharton
September 10, 2003 |
Do High Regulatory Costs Force Public Firms to Go Private? Steps aimed at increasing the financial transparency of U.S. companies could backfire if companies respond by going private instead. In these post-Enron, post-WorldCom times, that would deal a body blow to confidence in capital markets. |
CFO
April 1, 2004
Don Durfee |
Filing Ever Faster New deadlines for 10-Ks and 10-Qs have finance departments scrambling. But who will benefit? |
The Motley Fool
July 6, 2004
Tom Taulli |
Grim Reaper Visits EasyLink By all appearances, EasyLink is being hit for a minor offense. Not according to the SEC. |
The Motley Fool
August 17, 2005
Rich Duprey |
SEC Nails Goodyear North America's largest tire maker gets a Wells Notice over accounting issues. What will it mean to investors? |
InternetNews
December 5, 2007
Larry Barrett |
Novell Delivers a Different Kind of Earnings Surprise Novell caught everyone unawares this morning when it failed to report its fourth-quarter and year-end results. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2004
Kevin Newcomb |
Salesforce.com Hits Bump on Road to IPO Excessive media coverage has caused the on-demand CRM provider to delay its offering, but the road to an IPO has now been cleared. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Align the Books? The gap between the numbers reported to shareholders and to the taxman is growing. Critics contend it's time to explain why. |
The Motley Fool
January 25, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Altera's Altered State The chip maker seems in denial about carrying too much inventory. Trading at 25 times trailing earnings and nearly seven times sales, Altera is no screaming bargain. |
U.S. Banker
February 2002
Robert A. Bennett |
Designer-Made Earning Reports It has become popular for companies to dream up their own methods of accounting. The greatest danger is fooling oneself... |
The Motley Fool
March 11, 2004
Ben McClure |
Quality Earnings Count Here are three telltale signs of strong earnings. This reporting period, it's worthwhile taking a peek behind the earnings. Here are three telltale signs of earnings "quality" to guide your stock picks. |
BusinessWeek
September 27, 2004 |
"You Cannot Legislate Honesty" Fund manager Robert Olstein, in a candid interview, says the SEC regulators have overstepped the mark. |
The Motley Fool
September 8, 2006
Anders Bylund |
National Semi Chooses Margins Over Volume National Semiconductor reported steady-as-she-goes earnings last night, with 9.6% revenue growth and a 46% boost in earnings per share over last year, despite this being the first quarter of reporting stock-based compensation. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
