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CFO September 1, 2006 Ronald Fink	Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance.
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CFO September 1, 2002 Lori Calabro	I Told You So To controversial securities litigator Bill Lerach, the current wave of corporate fraud scandals was both inevitable and preventable.
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