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National Defense
December 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Chastised for Unreliable Financial Data If the Pentagon were audited by the IRS, it would fail miserably. That is the conclusion of a recent inspector general report that blasted the Defense Department for its incoherent accounting and financial systems. |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Questions of Value Is fair-value accounting the best way to measure a company? The debate heats up. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
| CFO |
Full Disclosure Edmund Jenkins reflects on his leadership of FASB through difficult times... |
| 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
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... |
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. |
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, 2002
Julia Homer |
How Did We Get Here? Much of what happened in the 1990s also happened in the 1980s. Here's hoping we don't do it again. |
CFO
November 1, 2004
Don Durfee |
Shelter Fallout How much will the government's crackdown on tax shelters affect ordinary companies? More than you think. And not surprisingly, some finance professionals find the government's tactics alarming. |
Investment Advisor
August 2007
Les Witmer |
Closing the Gap How the IRS is improving compliance to close the tax gap. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Sep/Oct 2000
Yungmann & Taube |
Operating Performance Reporting Over the past year, NAREIT members have re-evaluated the effectiveness of the real estate investment trust industry's supplemental performance measure---Funds From Operations (FFO)... |
Salon.com
January 19, 2002
Andrew Leonard |
Capitalist pigs The sordid tales of Enron plutocrats looting the company of its treasure as their employees and shareholders faced ruin are enough to turn you into a class warrior... |
CFO
July 1, 2004 |
Double Standards? How controlled companies avoid independence rules... Name Game... Congress Weighs In -- Again... The Tortinator... etc. |
| 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. |
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Pitt On The Spot Plus, trade-show taxes... split-dollar life insurance... our quarterly Global Confidence Survey... |
PHONE+
May 4, 2009
William Bosco |
Lease Accounting: Changes the IT Industry Should Know The FASB and its sister organization, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), are working jointly to develop a new model for the recognition of assets and liabilities arising under lease contracts. |
CFO
January 1, 2005 |
In the Same Language The rest of the world adopts international accounting standards... Grounded to a Halt?... Give It Back!... Go Directly to Cash... Where's the Coverage?... |
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
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
October 1, 2011
David M. Katz |
Give-and-Take on R&D The perennial squabbling over the R&D tax credit enters a new phase, for better and worse. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
David M. Katz |
Fair-Value Revolution Historical cost accounting is fading as Corporate America marches into a new era. |
HBS Working Knowledge
June 18, 2007
Mihir Desai |
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field A Harvard Business School professor argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they report to shareholders. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2010
Susan H. Nadler |
Mind the GAAP What advantages does the income-tax basis accounting method offer? |
| CFO |
Material Whirl A stock-transfer scam forces a big nonoperating charge... new evidence that banks put the squeeze on credit customers... the inside dope on earnings management attempts... etc. |
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. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
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. |
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? |
CFO
April 1, 2003 |
From All of Us Middle managers certify their numbers... Auditors make a company fire its sterling CFO... blind trusts for stock options... the SEC levies fines but doesn't collect them... etc. |
CFO
July 1, 2002 |
Take Me To Your Ledger Plus, good news for a hybrid tax shelter... why Americans don't invest abroad... NYSE wins a battle on Nasdaq's own turf... etc. |
CFO
Ronald Fink |
Beyond Enron The fate of Andrew Fastow and company casts a harsh light on off-balance-sheet financing... |
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. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
How Foreign Firms Can Attract U.S. Investors: Overcoming 'Home Bias' There are clearly substantial benefits to foreign firms that are able to attract U.S. investors in terms of lowering the cost of capital. |
| CFO |
Pro (& Con) Forma A warning on pro-forma numbers... the problems with credit rating triggers... simplified tax accounting for smaller businesses... etc. |
CFO
June 1, 2008
Scott Leibs |
Principles vs. Practices A new study says chief financial officers think financial statements are too complex for the average investor. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Oh, the Games Enron Played The Enron story is not simply a case of a lone company that played with fire and got burned. Enron was able to take enormous risks while keeping shareholders in the dark because it could exploit accounting loopholes for subsidiaries that are available to most publicly traded companies. |
CFO
January 1, 2006
Kris Frieswick |
Crackdown The IRS is taking a tough line on corporate tax cheats. According to commissioner Mark Everson, combating abusive tax shelters will remain a top priority for the IRS in 2006. In view of this, some companies are girding for battle. |
| 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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
December 20, 2006
Mihir Desai |
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting What corporations report in profit to the IRS and what they report to shareholders are often two different numbers. That's why the IRS and Securities and Exchange Commission are proposing that companies publicly report taxes paid |
BusinessWeek
December 22, 2003
Louis Lavelle |
Exec Pay: "Everybody Should Be A Little Nervous" The IRS is going after the last bastion of accounting creativity -- executive pay. |
CFO
Andrew Osterland |
Ready to Pounce? The IRS has taken a predatory stance against tax shelters. But several court decisions have altered the rules of the chase... |
Inc.
March 2006 |
Red Flags There's no surefire way to avoid being audited, but there are red flags to watch for. Here are six big ones. |
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... |
Entrepreneur
December 2002
Joan Szabo |
Get Your Tax Straight All the last-minute financial secrets a small business needs to get out from under some of that tax burden before 2002 comes to a close. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The Changing Role of the CFO Companies are once again demanding hardcore accounting, financial reporting and risk-management skills. This represents a shift back to the roots of the CFO position... |
| CFO |
What Must Be Done? The experts weigh in on how to prevent future Enrons... |
