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How Clean Are The Books? As companies begin to release new report cards on their financial controls, here's how to tell if there are problems in your portfolio. |
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August 1, 2007
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The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before. |
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April 1, 2007
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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. |
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January 2006
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You Can Be Too Careful How the U.S. government's new corporate accounting rules impede efficiency and stifle innovation. |
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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. |
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The Motley Fool
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Be Done With It, Dell Dell, enough with the piecemeal disclosures that feel like Chinese water torture. Even value investors have limits. |
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May 27, 2005
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Taking The Sarbox Challenge A look at the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, one of the most demanding and challenging compliance regulations for regulating corporate finances, and how IT factors into it. |
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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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Lost in the Maze Problems with hedge accounting caused a wave of restatements in 2005. Are FASB's rules too hard to follow, or are companies simply too lax? |
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December 1, 2007
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Restating Your Case Restatements are now so common and accomplished so quickly that investors don't even seem to care all that much anymore. To make a restatement project go smoothly, up-front planning is critical. Here are tips for managing the restatement process. |
The Motley Fool
April 14, 2005
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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. |
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September 2007
Melanie Waddell |
Simplifying Financial Reporting An SEC committee takes the first stab at a huge task under SOX. |
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October 1, 2007
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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. |
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May 1, 2005
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Feeling the Pain Are the benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley worth the cost? Many companies are voicing their concerns to the SEC. The top complaint about 404 is that auditors must point out management's own assessment of internal controls. |
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July 1, 2007
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Five Years and Accounting This story is Part 1 in a three-part series on how corporate finance has changed since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed. |
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October 1, 2011
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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. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2006 |
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March 30, 2004
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Auditors Are Getting Skittish Post-Enron, auditors are firing their clients, and getting fired by them. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2004
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Buffett Rips Congress on Options Why just counting the options given to the top five execs is a dumb, dumb idea. |
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FASB Waves Goodbye to "Qs" The Financial Accounting Standards Board has decided to eliminate the concept of qualified special purpose entities. |
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Good Low-Cost Accounting Simply Accounting 9 is a solid value for small business accounting. |
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An International Spat Over Bank Bookkeeping A dispute between the U.S. and international accounting standards boards is holding up a global agreement. |
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March 15, 2006
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A Tough Act to Follow What CFOs really think about Sarbox -- and how they would fix it. Included are the results of an exclusive survey of finance executives on the topic. |
The Motley Fool
August 11, 2004
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Bally's Looking Unfit The talk of member growth at the fitness center operator can't turn investor attention from more accounting ills. |
| 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. |
BusinessWeek
September 22, 2003
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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." |
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March 29, 2007
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Dell Finds 'Evidence of Misconduct' Dell shares fell in late trading Thursday after the company once again delayed its annual report because of growing accounting concerns... Red Hat fell on its quarterly results... Stocks posted modest gains... etc. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
October 4, 2004
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Fuzzy Numbers Despite the reforms, corporate profits can be as distorted and confusing as ever. Here's how the game is played. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Sympathy For Stock Option Backdaters? Whatever you want to call the chowder pot of stock option backdating cases, it still boils down to sketchy accounting. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2007
Lawrence Rothman |
TurboChef Wastes Fuel Marketing costs and an SEC inquiry sap money from the cooking-systems company. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
June 26, 2006
Rich Duprey |
Altera Backpedals on Backdating Options backdating forces the programmable chip maker to restate 10 years of financials. Investors, beware. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2004
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Chang's Cash Is the Thing The fast-growing restaurant chain rewards new store managers with minority interests in their units, but accounting issues associated with the practice caused it to restate earnings. |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Julia Homer |
Rule-makers The stage is set for a major shift in accounting practice. |
CFO
August 1, 2003
Craig Schneider |
Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again. |
CFO
October 1, 2007 |
The Battle for Influence Letter to the editor: The SEC Rules... Far from Settled... Still Hitting the Ceiling... etc. |
