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Month: December 2022

Meeting room chat highlights

The Biggest ESG Stories of 2022

Meeting room chat highlights

Politicians in the United States have argued about environmental issues for decades, but 2022 will likely go down as the year in which corporate ESG programs became a political football. With all the anticipation surrounding the Securities...

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FASB Renews Call for Deeper Disclosures on Income Taxes

Horseshoe on a barn wall as a good luck charm

Is the third time really a charm? That’s the hot question floating around the offices of the Financial Accounting Standards Board in Norwalk, Connecticut, as the group once again pushes for expanding disclosure of corporate income taxes. Th...

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Department of Justice Gets Touchy Over Corporate Enforcement Record

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In his 2020 book “Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World,” Canadian data scientist Vaclav Smil writes: “Numbers may not lie, but individual perceptions of them differ.” In other words, while hard data itself may be in...

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A heap of debris

SEC Issues New Crypto Guidance in Wake of FTX Mess

A heap of debris

This year, cryptocurrency exchange FTX joined companies like Enron and Lehman Brothers on the list of infamous corporate implosions. As Wall Street and legal authorities continue to sort through the rubble, the Securities and Exchange Commi...

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SEC is ready to swat down Form 10 K

SEC Digs Deeper on Inflation Impacts

SEC is ready to swat down Form 10 K

“Inflation is negatively impacting our business.” As the prices of goods and materials continue to rise worldwide, a growing number of companies are adding some variation of this self-evident statement to their mandatory financial reporting...

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