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The Case of the Missing White-Collar Criminal

23/06/2014(0)
The senior executives who played leading roles in the 2008 financial crisis can breathe a sigh of relief: If any committed crimes, the statute of limitations will run out ... Read More
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FASB revises standard for accounting of repurchase agreements

13/06/2014(0)
FASB on Thursday issued a revised standard that addresses investors’ concerns with the financial reporting of repurchase agreements and brings U.S. GAAP accounting for such transactions into closer alignment ... Read More
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Know the Roth 401(k) Rules—Or Get Left Behind

23/05/2014(0)
Behold the Roth 401(k), the retirement savings tactic growing in popularity among younger and more affluent employees, and offered by ever-increasing numbers of employers. Driving the boom are legislative ... Read More
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Unqualified accountants may put business at risk

22/05/2014(0)
Small firms are being urged to check whether their accountant is fully qualified before using them, otherwise risk damaging their business, an accounting body has warned. According to the ... Read More
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Logitech says audit committee investigating accounting matters

22/05/2014(0)
Logitech International SA said its audit committee is conducting an investigation into some of its accounting matters related to its earlier-stated results and the company may revise its fiscal ... Read More
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IASB agrees charter of mutual co-operation with accounting standard-setting community

08/05/2014(0)
The International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) today published an updated Charter establishing key principles of co-operation between the IASB and national standard-setters and other accounting standard-setting bodies, represented by ... Read More
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Making Big Four partner ‘meritocratic but highly commercial’

06/05/2014(0)
Making partner at a Big Four firm is more meritocratic than previously considered – but does this create a culture of commercialism that could clash with what is expected ... Read More
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A look on FASB’s new standards

30/04/2014(0)
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” ... Read More
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Bank of America Lost $2.7 Billion in a Maze of Accounting

29/04/2014(0)
Last month, Citigroup failed the Fed’s stress test because, even though it would meet minimum capital requirements in a severely adverse scenario, the Fed wasn’t comfortable with Citi’s capital ... Read More
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Excel: The power of mapping

07/04/2014(1)
Many financial systems do a fine job of generating standard reports, but accountants often need more. In those cases, accountants can create custom solutions in Excel, but that approach ... Read More
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