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Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2004 |
Meeting Higher Standards In my view, we have two key requirements that REITs must meet. First, we must ensure that the financial statements of publicly traded real estate companies are comparable to the rest of corporate America. Second, it is vital that financial reporting be consistent among all companies in our industry.   |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2003
Phillip Britt |
Implications of Sarbanes-Oxley You need to go back to the 1930s to find laws that have had as much impact on the fundamental systems of REITs and other publicly traded companies. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2002
Taube & Yungmann |
Promoting Transparency in Joint Venture Financial Reporting and Disclosure Joint venture arrangements have become an integral part of the business model of many real estate companies, and financial statement preparers and users have worked toward achieving a satisfactory level of transparency... |
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. |
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... |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2001
Yungmann & Taube |
FFO: Earnings or Cash Flow? In 1991, funds from operations (FFO) was defined by NAREIT and became widely used by the industry. Users of the industry's financial statements have accepted FFO as a starting point from which to analyze the historical, as well as prospective profitability and value of companies... |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
September 1, 2004
Scott Farb |
The Trickle-Down Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley Real estate private equity funds are finding themselves in an overly regulated, ever-changing and immensely complex climate when it comes to financial reporting and accounting issues. |
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... |
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. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2002 |
GAAP Net Income Measures Up Investors trying to decipher the key metric for measuring real estate companies got a hand recently from NAREIT's Board of Governors, which took a step affirming net income computed under generally accepted accounting principles as the primary earnings measure for real estate companies. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
October 1, 2005
Ann Weinstein |
Sarbanes-Oxley Alters the Playing Field The need to ensure the adequacy of financial controls is fast becoming a competitive necessity for companies that provide services to public companies. Real estate service providers are confronted with this new reality. |
FDIC FYI
July 24, 2002 |
Enhancing Financial Transparency Participants in the conference discussed the strengths and flaws inherent in the U.S. financial reporting process and suggested ways of modifying not only the reporting mechanism, but also the accounting standards that underlie financial statements, audit opinions, credit ratings and analyst reports. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
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What Must Be Done? The experts weigh in on how to prevent future Enrons... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jan/Feb 2004
Hamid R. Moghadam |
Building on a Solid Foundation I am confident the publicly traded real estate industry is poised to continue its progress in becoming a vital component of every diversified investment portfolio. |
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. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2002 |
Q&A with Bob Lieber Bob Lieber, co-head of Lehman Brothers' Global Real Estate Investment Banking unit, shares his thoughts on the capital markets for publicly traded real estate and the industry as a whole. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
Dees Stribling |
Inside the Boardroom Top REIT CEOs discuss the major corporate governance issues facing the industry. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2003
Darlene Bremer |
Quantity vs. Quality Public companies face strict mandates to disclose more financial information on a timelier basis, but can too much disclosure diminish its value to investors? |
InternetNews
August 29, 2005
Jim Wagner |
Work Remains for Sarbox Compliance Businesses have a lot of work ahead of them before they're fully compliant with federal data retention and financial reporting rules under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a new study concludes. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2006
R. Scot Sellers |
A Force To Be Reckoned With An ever-increasing number of investors are realizing what those of us in the business have known for a long time -- real estate is a fantastic vehicle through which to create long-term wealth. |
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. |
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. |
| 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. |
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... |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Tim Reason |
Reporting: See-Through Finance The market's distaste for complex financing could raise your company's cost of capital, even if you comply with new reporting rules. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Nov/Dec 2003
Matthew Bechard |
Straight From Sam Inside the mind of one of real estate's leading visionaries, Sam Zell. |
CFO
September 1, 2002
David M. Katz |
The Insiders Do internal auditors have a bigger role to play in ensuring the integrity of financial reports? |
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Full Disclosure Edmund Jenkins reflects on his leadership of FASB through difficult times... |
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2003
Matt Valley Editor |
Sarbanes-Oxley is onerous What Corporate America needs is more integrity, not more due diligence and documentation. Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley consumes time that could be spent creating shareholder value and may encourage some public companies to go private. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jan/Feb 2004
Christopher M. Wright |
Q&A with Tom Robinson The managing director and co-head of real estate investment banking at Legg Mason Wood Walker shares his thoughts on the capital markets and the real estate industry as a whole. |
CFO
January 1, 2003 |
Credit Watch S&P's Leo O'Neill to SEC: We are not the watchdogs. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2002
William D. Sanders |
Opening the 401(k) Marketplace It may well be that the 401(k) marketplace has the greatest potential for spurring significant growth in real estate stock investing over the next decade. |
CFO
August 1, 2002
Ronald Fink |
The Fear of All Sums To restore investor trust, many companies are disclosing more information, according to a CFO survey. But it may not be enough. |
| 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. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2002
Alfred Branch Jr. |
Managing Crisis With the unthinkable having become reality, real estate companies know having a reliable crisis management plan in place is now part of business as usual. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2005
Matt Valley |
Is Sarbanes-Oxley worth the pain and suffering? A year ago in this column, I predicted that the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate governance act (SOX) would be a big story for the REIT world and beyond in 2004. The evidence suggests that I was correct. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Mar/Apr 2002
Darlene Bremer |
Up To Speed Financial management tools provide the speed and accuracy real estate companies need in a competitive investment landscape... |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2006
R. Scot Sellers |
Building Our Reputation Reflection on the progress real estate professionals have made in the publicly traded real estate industry during the past 15 years, it strikes one that beyond building physical structures, a reputation is also being built. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2003
Steven Roth |
Staying Power The year is now half over, and it is worth remembering that this was not supposed to be real estate's year. Performance so far in 2003 has been truly remarkable. Exceeding analyst expectations, REITs have posted total returns of 15 percent year-to-date, with increased returns every month. |
HBS Working Knowledge
May 23, 2011
Michael Blanding |
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective Does reporting actually induce companies to improve their nonfinancial performance and contribute toward a sustainable society? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Towards Greater Transparency in Real Estate Private Equity Funds An innocuously titled paper, "Real Estate Private Equity Funds," is forcing real estate companies to take a hard look at greater transparency and standardization in their disclosures and also to work towards establishing performance benchmarks. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jan/Feb 2001
Anna Chason |
Regulation Fair Disclosure: Walking the High Wire Investor relations have been described as a fencing match conducted on a tightrope. In providing information to investors and analysts, corporate officers must carefully negotiate the "high wire" and provide full information while avoiding "selective disclosures"... |
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. |
CFO
September 1, 2005
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Can You Spot the Finance Expert? Two years after the SEC started requiring finance experts on audit committees, it's still not clear who qualifies, or whether it really makes a difference. |
CFO
November 1, 2002
Andrew Osterland |
Board Games Boards are supposed to monitor top executives, but too often give them carte blanche. That's why regulators are writing stricter rules for the corporate-governance game. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2002
Martin Sinderman |
Q&A with Ron Sturzenegger Ron, Managing Director, Real Estate and Lodging Investment Banking at Banc of America Securities, has spent all 16 years of his investment banking career focused on REITs... |
