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HBS Working Knowledge
January 23, 2006
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Financial Reporting Goes Global As business goes global, pressure is increasing for adoption of a single set of accounting standards worldwide. Harvard professor Gregory Miller discusses this trend and India's unique position to be a leader in the international accounting environment.   |
HBS Working Knowledge
August 20, 2007
Martha Lagace |
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively Investor relations has a delicate balancing act. It communicates with stakeholders, of course, but can also help employees take a step back and analyze their firm as outsiders do. |
Inc.
September 18, 2002
Carole Matthews |
Preventing Small-Business Fraud Small businesses are more likely to become the victims of fraud than larger businesses. Here's how you can prevent fraudulent activity in your workplace. |
CFO
September 1, 2008 |
Deception Perception Corporate fraudsters may be hard to detect, but they're most likely to be found on the accounting staff. |
Parameters
Brendan R. Mclane |
Reporting from a Sandstorm: An Appraisal of Embedding In an age of the continuous media cycle and information transparency, Operation Iraqi Freedom marked the first time so many reporters were provided so much relatively unrestricted front-line access. |
CFO
April 1, 2009
S.L. Mintz |
The Gauge of Innocence Fraud takes many forms. Count on all of them to increase this year. |
IndustryWeek
January 20, 2010
Jill Jusko |
Not a Financial Exec? It's not only financial executives who could benefit from an awareness of fraud risks in their organizations. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 12, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Accounting Information as Political Currency Firms manage accounting numbers to avoid regulatory scrutiny. The implication is that firms manage accounting numbers to influence political decisions. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 24, 2008
Martha Lagace |
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising In this Q&A, HBS professor Ben Edelman, who designs electronic markets, explains how contract terms can be managed to both reduce advertisers' risks of being defrauded and reward good suppliers. |
Financial Planning
July 1, 2005
Melanie DeCarolis |
Practice Tips Using the media is a powerful and cost-effective way for motivated financial planners to build both credibility and their books of business. Here are a few ways to encourage journalists to seek you out. |
CFO
March 1, 2011
Laton McCartney |
Where There's Smoke, There's Fraud Sarbanes-Oxley has done little to curb corporate malfeasance. Therefore, CFOs should implement a range of fraud-prevention measures. |
The Motley Fool
October 27, 2010
Matthew Argersinger |
Bad Stocks Are All Around Us: Finding the Next Enron Does your portfolio contain the next Enron or Worldcom? Use these lessons to help unlock financial shenanigans. |
BusinessWeek
September 26, 2005 |
Report From A General In The SEC's War On Fraud The Securities & Exchange Commission chief accountant Donald T. Nicolaisen talks about the reliability of financial reports, scandals and accounting standards. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 19, 2012
Deborah Blagg |
How to be Extremely Productive Professor Robert Pozen discusses his new book, Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours, in which he shares performance-enhancing tips on everything from better sleep on overnight business flights to dealing with employees' mistakes. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
Paula Dwyer |
A Talk with William McDonough The new accounting oversight board's chairman says the profession should see the PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) as "its mentor-cum-ally." |
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. |
Job Journal
August 10, 2008 |
Career Snapshot: Accountant Working behind the scenes, accountants keep business and personal finances organized. |
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? |
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. |
Financial Planning
May 1, 2012
Peggy Tracy |
Finding Fraud To uncover intentional - and increasingly sophisticated - deceits, planners need to know about forensic accounting, financial planning, tax law and criminology. |
CFO
June 1, 2009
Edward Teach |
"I Should Have Said No." A CFO who confessed to fraud wants business students to learn from his mistakes. An interview with Aaron Beam, former CFO, HealthSouth Corp. |
Reason
January 2009
Brian Doherty |
Sarbanes-Oxley Revisited Recent academic studies of Sarbanes-Oxley have deepened our understanding of the law's effects. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2012
Canon & Fenbert |
The Potential Impact of Lease Accounting Changes on Corporate Real Estate Decision-Making With the goal of improving lease information transparency and comparability, the new standards could have residual effects on the way in which companies form decisions regarding their real estate needs. |
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? |
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. |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Leibs & Reason |
IFRS and When The SEC may decide soon whether and when U.S. companies will switch to international accounting standards. And it's a good thing, as panic from not knowing the date is percolating. |
Knowledge@Wharton
June 18, 2003 |
Board Members Feeling the Heat of Public Scrutiny Should Bone Up on Finance, Accounting What you don't know can't hurt you. That old adage may be true some of the time, but not for people serving on boards of directors and audit committees in the wake of recent scandals that have tarnished the reputation of corporate America. |
PC Magazine
May 16, 2007 |
Who Gets Hit Most by Online Fraud? Protect yourself now! Find out where and how most online fraud originates. |
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. |
Entrepreneur
April 2003
David Lipschultz |
Chief Concern It's time to make an executive decision about whether your small company needs a CFO. |
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. |
CFO
July 1, 2003
Kris Frieswick |
How Audits Must Change Auditors face more pressure to find fraud. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2007
Dawn Kopecki |
Backdating: Why Penalties Are Puny The SEC considers options violations less serious than other kinds of financial fraud. |
CFO
April 1, 2008
Alan Rappeport |
One Standard, Many Laws Accounting convergence could be derailed by countries making too many modifications. |
HBS Working Knowledge
November 10, 2003
Martha Lagace |
A Fast Start on Your New Job Your first ninety days in a new leadership position are fraught with peril -- and loaded with opportunity. Harvard professor Michael Watkins explains how to get a running start. A Q&A and book excerpt. |
CFO
May 15, 2012
Sarah Johnson |
Speaking of Fraud Fraud-related tips reached an all-time high in the latest quarter. |
CFO
May 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
Auditor Angst Want faster, cheaper audits? Your auditor humbly suggests you avoid last-minute data dumps and other less-than-helpful practices. |
