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Fair-Value Revolution Historical cost accounting is fading as Corporate America marches into a new era.   |
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Retirement Plan FIN 47 may help to create opportunities for companies and developers by prompting companies to assess their retired properties' identifiable and quantifiable costs. |
CFO
February 1, 2008
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Facing Up to Fair Value Companies can expect to book more contingent liabilities, and at a higher cost than in the past. |
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
December 1, 2004
Kris Frieswick |
Is Fair Value Flawed? Some say FASB's reform proposals for merger-and-acquisition expense-reporting could stifle corporate management planning. |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Russ Banham |
Pension Dissension FASB is championing a two-phase project that would provide guidance for gauging annual pension expenses on the income statement and disclose plan assets and liabilities on the balance sheet and in footnotes. CFOs protest. |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
The Jury's Out A reversal of a big jury award to shareholders of Apollo Group lends support to critics of proposed revisions to FAS 5. |
CFO
September 1, 2006
Ronald Fink |
Will Fair Value Fly? Fair-value accounting could change the very basis of corporate finance. |
The Motley Fool
June 8, 2005
Brian Gorman |
Monsanto's Risk Relief The ag-tech giant clears up a nagging PCB problem. But for now, it might be prudent to hold off on buying Monsanto shares until the firm demonstrates how well it is digesting its recent acquisitions. |
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 |
Full Disclosure Edmund Jenkins reflects on his leadership of FASB through difficult times... |
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
April 1, 2006
John Goff |
Coming Distractions As big a concern as E-waste is, it is still only a small bite in the larger risk grid confronting business managers these days. Here are eight risks managers need to focus on. Green Laws: No Hazmats Beyond This Point... Terrorism Insurance: Duck and Cover... etc. |
CFO
July 15, 2010
O'Sullivan & Leibs |
BP's Spillover Effect If there is a silver lining to the BP oil spill, it may be that companies will now reframe "corporate sustainability" reporting as a genuine risk-management priority rather than a hollow public-relations exercise. |
CFO
August 1, 2004
Alix Nyberg |
Investment Insight Is Corporate America adequately managing employee pension funds? |
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Papa & Coyne |
Environmental Due Diligence Consider the advantages of proactive sell-side assessments. |
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September 1, 2006
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
Standing on Principles In a world with more regulation than ever, can the accounting rulebook be thrown away? |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2011
Tom R. Mounteer |
Environmental Risk: 10 Myths Do you really know what your liability is? Buyers, sellers, borrowers, and lenders frequently misperceive environmental liability risk in acquisitions and financings. |
IDB America
November 2003
Roger Hamilton |
Nature cross-examined Lawyers are becoming increasingly important players in battles to protect Latin America's environment. |
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March 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Two Weeks in January The SEC put much of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into effect by passing a slew of new rules. Here's what was proposed and what was disposed. |
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February 2003
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Our Environment: Part 3, Science and Technology Resources for the collection and analysis of data, as well as the final reports that influence national and international environmental policies. |
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Mar/Apr 2010
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Contamination Examination Tainted properties may be worth the risk for savvy investors. |
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August 1, 2007
Kate O'Sullivan |
The SEC Rules Five years after Sarbanes-Oxley, the SEC is flexing its regulatory muscle as never before. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2006
Bennett Voyles |
Will the Brownfields Bloom? After 25 years, there are still hundreds of thousands of brownfields sites to build on, but specialized developers say they're getting much easier to redevelop. |
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Nov/Dec 2011
John J. Heft |
Environmental Deal Breakers Environmental liability concerns can serve as major deal breakers during commercial real estate sales and transfers. |
CFO
February 1, 2008
Tim Reason |
Bending the Rules Efforts to contain damage from the subprime-mortgage meltdown are stretching accounting rules for securitization. |
CFO
July 1, 2005
Alix Nyberg Stuart |
A GAAP of Their Own Private companies seeking a wholesale exemption from FASB's accounting rules are likely to be disappointed. |
Chemistry World
January 11, 2010
Helen Carmichael |
EPA: Bankrupt chemical firms must pay for site clean up The US Environmental Protection Agency has tabled new proposals to prevent taxpayers footing the environmental clean up bills for cash-strapped chemical companies. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2004
Daniel Johnson |
The Cleanup Conundrum Examine the pros and cons of remediating environmentally contaminated properties before selling. |
CIO
November 15, 2000
Steven Rowe |
Hazardous Waste A smart plan to dispose old computer hardware can save your company from environmental liability... |
The Motley Fool
December 17, 2010
Alan Oscroft |
U.S. Government to Sue BP BP faces the possibility of unlimited liabilities for the Gulf of Mexico cleanup. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Tangible Agitation Over a Proposal on Intangible Assets Beefing up the disclosure of intangible assets would potentially yield greater transparency, enabling the investment communities to make better decisions about their capital. Should companies be required to disclosure information about their intangible assets to investors? |
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. |
Finance & Development
June 1, 2007
Traa & Carare |
A Government's Net Worth A new tool in surveillance, the public sector balance sheet, can help diagnose vulnerabilities that are not immediately visible in the budget. |
CFO
August 1, 2003
Craig Schneider |
Who Rules Accounting? Congress muscles in on FASB -- again. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2006
Jill Jusko |
Gentle Persuasion: The Upside Of CO 2 Cuts While a conservative presidential administration eschews mandatory CO 2 cuts, manufacturers move ahead with reductions in response to customer and shareholder relations and liability concerns. |
CFO
July 1, 2007 |
Cheap Talk or Deaf Ears? Whistleblower Woes... Marching to Different Drummers... A Toxic Mess... Do Companies Do Good Well?... Patents Bending... If It's Tuesday, This Must Be... etc. |
CFO
Tim Reason |
On the Same Page U.S. and international standard setters are coordinating their efforts to craft a common language for business... |
CFO
September 1, 2006
Fink & Durfee |
Progress Report Could it be that finance executives really don't mind regulation? |
CFO
January 10, 2007 |
In Whose Best Interest? How Accounting Firms Would Change Their Industry... Why Performance Scorecards Still Fail... The Uninspired American Employee... M&A and Option Backdating... The CFO as Investor-Relations Professional... etc. |
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?... |
CFO
October 1, 2004 |
Oil Man Occidental Petroleum CFO Stephen Chazen has no control over the price of oil. But he does get to spend the windfall. And in this article he gets to discuss the reserve controversy, his hopes for Libya, and why higher oil prices "will bring out more supply." |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2014
Emma Stoye |
Anadarko agrees $5bn clean-up settlement Anadarko Petroleum has agreed to pay $5.15 billion to clean up areas affected by hazardous waste pollution, settling a legal dispute between Kerr-McGee and a trust representing the US government, state governments and thousands of citizens. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Mark-to-Market Accounting: What You Should Know How does it work, and why is Congress pushing to suspend it? |
CFO
January 1, 2008 |
Talking the Talk, But Not Walking the Walk Letters to the editor: Long Live the King?... CFOs and the Environment... Taking Notice of 401(k)s... Turbulence Ahead... etc. |
CFO
February 22, 2005
Alix Nyberg |
Death to Smoothing A tough regulatory environment is another nail in the coffin for defined-benefit plans. |
The Motley Fool
March 1, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
The El Paso Shuffle When estimates of reserves get shuffled around, it's not a good thing. Should investors balk when energy companies adjust downward their estimates of proved reserves? If you ask the author, the answer is yes. |
Knowledge@Wharton
February 12, 2003 |
A "Perfect Storm" of Circumstances Batters Corporate Pension Plans Questions raised about accounting for pension funds have prompted some Wharton faculty and other experts to ask if rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, as well as the Internal Revenue Code itself, may have played a significant part in the strife. |
BusinessWeek
June 5, 2006
Nanette Byrnes |
You May Be Liable For That Lease The Financial Accounting Standards Board review of lease accounting standards could really hammer retailers. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Mar/Apr 2003
Dave Wald |
Brownfield Bonanza Federal legislation provides more funding for redevelopment projects. |
