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Principles vs. Practices A new study says chief financial officers think financial statements are too complex for the average investor.   |
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What's Delaying the SEC on IFRS? How many decades will it take the SEC to mandate IFRS over the U.S. Generally Accepting Accounting Principles? |
Financial Advisor
March 2008
Alan Lavine |
Apples To Apples Expect a pop in equity valuations, increased liquidity and lower trading costs as foreign companies list stocks in the United States using International Financial Reporting Standards. |
CIO
June 10, 2009
Chris Feenstra |
Global Accounting Rule Shift CIOs should plan now for the proposed switch to International Financial Reporting Standards. |
CFO
December 1, 2009
Marie Leone |
Convergence vs. Conversion The notion of U.S. companies switching to international financial reporting standards (IFRS) over the next few years might become moot if efforts to converge U.S. and international accounting standards are successful. |
CFO
September 1, 2012
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SEC Report Backs Away from Convergence The commission's staff expresses hesitation about merging international standards and U.S. GAAP. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
D.J. Gannon |
Why Adopt Global Standards, Anyway? The reality is that the development of identical standards was never the intended result of convergence. |
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
January 1, 2008
Sarah Johnson |
Long Live the King? As international accounting standards close in on GAAP, the U.S. standard-setter considers its mortality. |
CFO
November 1, 2008
Josh Hyatt |
Small Companies Will Lag, but By How Much? Switching to the new global financial reporting standards is inevitable for private companies -- eventually. |
CFO
April 1, 2008
Sarah Johnson |
Goodbye GAAP It's time to start preparing for the arrival of international accounting standards. |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Tim Reason |
International Accounting Standards Board Chairman Sir David Tweedie The overseer of a coming accounting revolution opines on U.S. companies' inevitable, eventual shift to IFRS. |
Investment Advisor
November 2009
D.J. Gannon |
Small World Financial reporting standards will eliminate many of the adjustments investment advisors historically have made to allow companies' financials to be more comparable internationally. |
CFO
April 1, 2008
Alan Rappeport |
One Standard, Many Laws Accounting convergence could be derailed by countries making too many modifications. |
CFO
April 1, 2008
Julia Homer |
Hello IFRS The international standards are knocking at our doors, but their convergence with GAAP is clouded with questions. |
CFO
June 15, 2012
Kathleen Hoffelder |
New Board for Private GAAP Finance chiefs of privately held companies will no longer be faced with the difficult and costly task of applying public accounting standards to their situations. |
CFO
July 15, 2008
Leibs & Reason |
IFRS and When The SEC may decide soon whether and when U.S. companies will switch to international accounting standards. And it's a good thing, as panic from not knowing the date is percolating. |
CFO
January 1, 2009
Alix Stuart |
Which One When? A roundup of key accounting deadlines, developments, and detours to watch for in 2009. |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Marie Leone |
Convergence Divergence Critics question the entire rationale for adopting international financial reporting standards. |
Bank Technology News
November 2008
Rebecca Sausner |
Accounting Change to International Standard Looms Large for IT The SEC's plan for the eventual retirement of GAAP accounting in favor of International Financial Reporting Standards will necessitate changes to hundreds of banking IT systems. |
| 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
March 1, 2012
Sarah Johnson |
Could Its IFRS Delay Strip the SEC of Power? International standards group gently prods the SEC to step up its involvement. |
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. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Nov/Dec 2010
Susan H. Nadler |
Mind the GAAP What advantages does the income-tax basis accounting method offer? |
CFO
September 1, 2008
Scott Leibs |
A Perfect Storm With fair value, IFRS, and XBRL, finance is experiencing a remarkable sea change. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
September 1, 2004
Scott Farb |
The Trickle-Down Effect of Sarbanes-Oxley Real estate private equity funds are finding themselves in an overly regulated, ever-changing and immensely complex climate when it comes to financial reporting and accounting issues. |
| 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. |
On Wall Street
April 1, 2012
Michael Cohn |
U.S. Needs to Move to Global Reporting System The chairman of KPMG International, Michael Andrew, believes the U.S. runs the risk of being passed by in the global financial markets unless it commits to International Financial Reporting Standards. |
CFO
October 1, 2010
Stuart & Johnson |
Herz Closes the Books on FASB Tenure Finance executives look ahead with both hope and caution. |
IDB America
June 2001
Daniel Drosdoff |
What do you mean by "profitable"? Why Latin American companies and societies have much to gain from adopting a new set of international accounting standards |
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
May 1, 2008 |
Standards and Lack Thereof Readers write to say that "convergence" is a misnomer; consumer-driven health plans are a cost shift, not a cost control; the Web 2.0 world can expect to be downsized; small companies don't understand cash-flow statements; and more. |
CFO
November 1, 2010
Marie Leone |
One Step Closer to Little GAAP New panels and a forthcoming report give hope to smaller companies. |
| 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. |
CFO
September 1, 2009
Jason Karaian |
The Silent Treatment Regulators think that companies are too shy when it comes to airing their views on fundamental accounting issues. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Pro Forma's Bottom Line Be careful what you say and how you say it. The Financial Executives International, Morristown, N.J., and the National Investor Relations Institute, Vienna, Va., have come up with guidelines for clear and consistent public statements of corporate earnings. Five key suggestions... |
Bank Systems & Technology
December 22, 2008
David Sherriff |
2009 Bank Tech Forecast: Improve Understanding of Risk to Begin Recovery The problems began with the banks. So will the recovery. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Capell & Ewing |
Bringing Europe Inc. Into Sharper Focus Red ink is turning black overnight - and vice-versa - as companies adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards, a giant first step toward global harmonization of accounting standards. |
Real Estate Portfolio
Jul/Aug 2002 |
GAAP Net Income Measures Up Investors trying to decipher the key metric for measuring real estate companies got a hand recently from NAREIT's Board of Governors, which took a step affirming net income computed under generally accepted accounting principles as the primary earnings measure for real estate companies. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 23, 2006
Cynthia D. Churchwell |
Financial Reporting Goes Global As business goes global, pressure is increasing for adoption of a single set of accounting standards worldwide. Harvard professor Gregory Miller discusses this trend and India's unique position to be a leader in the international accounting environment. |
CFO
June 1, 2010
Sarah Johnson |
What's New? Don't Ask The pace of accounting rule changes is beginning to wear on finance staffs. |
Insurance & Technology
March 30, 2009
Nathan Conz |
Clearwater Analytics Launches Insurance Offering Clearwater Analytics has released Insurance Analytics to address the industry's investment reporting needs. |
Real Estate Portfolio
May/Jun 2001
Yungmann & Taube |
FFO: Earnings or Cash Flow? In 1991, funds from operations (FFO) was defined by NAREIT and became widely used by the industry. Users of the industry's financial statements have accepted FFO as a starting point from which to analyze the historical, as well as prospective profitability and value of companies... |
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. |
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
February 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
A New Vision for Accounting Robert Herz and FASB are preparing a radical new format for financial statements. |
CFO
February 1, 2003
Tim Reason |
Questions of Value Is fair-value accounting the best way to measure a company? The debate heats up. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2002
John S. McClenahen |
Goodbye To GAAP? Probably not. But Enron's collapse makes changes in financial regulation likely... |
