Research Says Disclosure Offers Cover for Questionable Accounting
Public financial reporting involves an inherent tension between accurately portraying the condition of a company and the pressure to meet the expectat...
Ghost of Revenue Past Haunts Issuers, SEC
Ebenezer Scrooge had a hard time reckoning with the ghost of Christmas past. This holiday season, a different but equally vexing demon is haunting pub...
Fast-Rising Risk Factors Offer Signs of the Times
If you really want to understand America, you could travel our highways. You could watch our movies, read our newspapers, or talk to people in diners....
FASB Aims to Ease LIBOR Phaseout
With the London Inter-bank Offered Rate (aka LIBOR) on its way out, U.S. companies are searching for off-ramps to shift to new lending benchmarks. The...
Crypto Roundup: The Road Remains Rocky
Remember when cryptocurrency was going to be a big deal? Bitcoin and other alt-coins were going to replace money and change the way the world does bus...
Severed Heads: Companies Split CEO, Chairman Roles
The saying goes that if you want a job done right, do it yourself. But public companies seem to have learned a different lesson. When things go wrong,...