Fed’s Bullard: ‘The Bubble Was Developing Under Our Noses’
June 10th, 2014
Perhaps accidently wiping out in one fell swoop six years of carefully orchestrated and minutely maintained Fed propaganda, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard admitted to reporters on Monday after a speech in Palm Beach, Florida, that the Fed ...
Accounting giants press for seat at G20 table
May 26th, 2014
The Australian federal government allegedly accepted sponsorship of more than $US300,000 from three of the accounting sector’s ‘big four’ for a seat at the table of a high profile tax summit in Tokyo ahead of this year’s G20 talks ...
Vietnam Offers Help To Companies After Deadly Anti-China Riots
May 22nd, 2014
Vietnam will compensate businesses hit by anti-China riots, which exploded across the country last week over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea. Factories were torched and at least four workers were killed, according to the Metallurgical Corporation ...
Roberts Reunites High Court Majority After Obamacare Vote
May 19th, 2014
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority is back to being the conservative majority. Two years after the court upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law and a year after it bolstered gay rights, the five Republican-appointed justices are voting together ...
A look on FASB’s new standards
April 30th, 2014
In December 2002, five months after he became chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, Robert Herz told a conference of auditors that FASB had set a “very ambitious” deadline for issuing a sweeping new standard that would govern ...
“Killer B” anti-abuse regulations are on the way
April 29th, 2014
Recognizing that taxpayers are exploiting the rules in ways it had not intended, the IRS on Friday announced that it will amend the existing regulations on cross-border reverse triangular reorganizations, popularly known as “Killer B” transactions (Notice 2014-32). Killer ...
DIFC Event Discusses Sukuk Oversight
April 23rd, 2014
International standard setter the International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) recently organized an industry consultative meeting on the standardization of Shari’ah-compliant financial certificates, known as Sukuk. The meeting was hosted by the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). The objective of ...
Profitability Ratios
March 6th, 2014
How well is the business performing over a specific period, will the firm have the financial resources to continue serving its constituents tomorrow as well as today? Profitability ratios offer several different measures of the success of the firm ...
Bonds
March 6th, 2014
Bonds are negotiable debt instruments issued, in capital markets with the purpose of raising capital. Investors who acquire bonds are lenders to the issuers. Particularly, investors lend some amount of money, the principal, to the borrower. In return, the ...
