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InternetNews July 6, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS to Miss Revenue Mark Tepid sales expected to tip earnings scale in wrong direction for software maker later this month.
InternetNews September 11, 2006 Clint Boulton	Dell Delaying Earnings Report Dell today said it will delay filing its second-quarter financial filing due to questions raised from the investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission into the computer maker's accounting and financial reporting.
InternetNews December 30, 2003 Roy Mark	Symbol's CEO Exits as Accounting Probe Unwinds The 24-year veteran of wireless bar code-scanning device company exits in order to help put a 'channel stuffing' probe behind it.
InternetNews August 4, 2006 Clint Boulton	Apple Stock Option Probe Escalates Apple Computer Inc. said it may have to restate past financial results after uncovering additional accounting regularities during its internal investigation into stock option grants.
Knowledge@Wharton	Why Firms Restate Annual Earnings and Why Investors Should Beware Is there a way to tell, ahead of time, which publicly traded companies are most likely to cook the books? A new study, "Predicting Earnings Management: The Case of Earnings Restatements," identifies some key risk factors.
The Motley Fool July 6, 2004 Tim Beyers	Veritas Vilified The storage software maker missed estimates. Investors took the news hard, sending the stock lower by more than 35%.
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.
InternetNews April 26, 2004 Jim Wagner	CA Names Interim CEO; Will Restate Revenue Housecleaning underway in the wake of an accounting scandal at the enterprise software company.
InternetNews December 16, 2004 Clint Boulton	Symantec to Buy Veritas for $13.5B The marriage of Symantec and Veritas would form one of the largest security and back-up software powers in the market. Should it succeed, Symantec shareholders will own 60% and Veritas shareholders approximately 40% of the combined entity.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2004 Mark Mahorney	Stay Away From Computer Associates Computer Associates is still far from moving on.
The Motley Fool March 29, 2006	The Best Course for Investors Your local community college might make you a better investor. Consider taking a course or two in accounting at a local college to boost your accounting knowledge.
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Clint Boulton	Symantec Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Veritas Security software maker Symantec is reportedly in talks to buy back-up software power Veritas Software in a blockbuster deal that, at $13 billion, would be one of the largest of its kind.
InternetNews June 30, 2005	Feds, CA Add More Charges Embattled enterprise software company Computer Associates is trying to shake from its past accounting scandals.
The Motley Fool October 4, 2004 W.D. Crotty	VERITAS: Attractive at a Discount It might be worth taking a good look at this stock, which has fallen far in the last 52 weeks.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2006 Tim Beyers	A Billion Reasons to Avoid Symantec? The antivirus maker has a taxing problem. For its part, Symantec says it isn't in error and plans to take the Feds to tax court, but it's not certain how much investors may lose if the IRS is right.
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	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.
The Motley Fool April 28, 2004 Rich Smith	Network Associates Restates Truth The company's earnings restatements can give a guy a headache.
InternetNews August 31, 2004 Clint Boulton	Veritas to Buy KVS The storage and utility computing company offers $225 million in cash to boost its profile in the e-mail archiving arena.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2005 Rich Duprey	Computer Associates Itself With Restatements The management software provider will restate five years of financials. Investors, take note.
InternetNews August 18, 2004 Michael Singer	Veritas Reaches Out to China The systems software vendor unveils plans to extend its utility computing vision to its Asia/Pacific fans.
The Motley Fool December 28, 2004 Jim Schoettler	Uncovering the Billion-Dollar Secret Traditional stock option accounting practices lead companies to overstate their net income. Here is a look at how significant these overstatements are, who's responsible for fixing the problem, and what they're doing about it to place themselves and their investors in an advantageous position.
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.
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.
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS to Acquire Application Virtualization Firm The storage firm will pay $59M for Ejasent, bolstering its utility computing portfolio to compete with IBM, HP and EMC.
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.
InternetNews April 18, 2006 Clint Boulton	Symantec's $1B Tax Bill Security software giant Symantec said in a Securities and Exchange filing that it owes the government $1 billion in unpaid taxes, mostly relating to an audit of its purchase of Veritas Software.
InternetNews February 22, 2007 Clint Boulton	Veritas Dinged For $30M Veritas Software will fork over cash to investors harmed in fraudulent financial schemes.
InternetNews March 15, 2004 Clint Boulton	Storage Growth Still Hot Research firm says compliance rules have heavily influenced growth of backup and storage management software in Q4.
CFO April 1, 2007 Roy Harris	Say Again? An explosion in accounting errors -- in part reflecting the difficulties of today's complex rules -- has forced nearly a quarter of U.S. companies to learn the art of the restatement.
InternetNews January 9, 2004 Clint Boulton	Storage Players Play for Utility Computing Answering EMC's major bid for VMware, Veritas moves to acquire Ejasent for $59 million to firm up its utility computing portfolio, as players jostle to present their wares to customers.
PC World September 2005 Richard Morochove	Peachtree 2006 Adds Accounting Review New audit tests make the latest Peachtree editions worthwhile for small businesses.
InternetNews December 17, 2004 Clint Boulton	Symantec, Veritas Marriage Gets Mixed Reviews While vendors slugged it out over new customers over the last couple of months, two giants in their respective markets were hatching a plan to ambush the software market with a blockbuster merger.
InternetNews February 23, 2004 Clint Boulton	Veritas in Storage Software Overhaul The software maker gives utility computing prominence in its revamped product mix.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2005 Rich Duprey	There's No Accounting for Goodyear The world's largest tire maker delays filing annual financial reports -- again.
InternetNews April 12, 2004 Clint Boulton	BEA Embraces Utility Computing from VERITAS BEA will add its application server to VERITAS' utility computing software in the deal to reduce customer total cost of ownership.
InternetNews November 1, 2004 Clint Boulton	Veritas Retools Server Provisioning Adding a big piece to its utility computing jigsaw puzzle, Veritas Software rewrote its OpForce server provisioning software to include application discovery and configuration.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS to Orbit Solaris The company agrees to support Sun's operating system x86 architecture for Intel and AMD while it updates its i3 roadmap and announces new services.
The Motley Fool April 14, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Gottschalks Gotcha? Lease accounting restatements are fine as long as they don't become a crutch for the retail industry. Gottschalks is now looking to earn between $0.59 and $0.64 a share in 2005.
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.
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.
InternetNews October 30, 2009	Microsoft Axes Office Accounting Software What will Microsoft's Office Accounting users do now that the company will soon kill off the product?
PC World August 2002 Richard Morochove	Good Low-Cost Accounting Simply Accounting 9 is a solid value for small business accounting.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004	How Expensive Will Expensing Options Be? A talk with accounting expert Pat McConnell on the impact of stock options on earnings
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.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Learn Accounting, Invest Better I was recently asked, "What kind of college course could I take that would make me a better investor?" Here's my answer.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2005 Selena Maranjian	Learn Accounting, Invest Better One of the most useful subjects to understand as an investor is financial accounting.
InternetNews January 12, 2004 Clint Boulton	VERITAS Automates Disaster Recovery Software Latest Bare Metal Restore automates server recovery, bringing systems back online faster.
InternetNews December 23, 2003 Clint Boulton	EMC Taps Rival to Boost Database Performance Rivals to storage system company EMC look to advance their utility computing strategies, with Veritas creating a software extension that aims to boost database performance on EMC platforms.