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Category: Rules & Regs

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Tariff Refunds: A Tale of Two Accounting Approaches

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Last month we looked at the prickly issue of how companies are accounting for tariff costs. The accounting questions on the other side of that ledger—what do you do when you might get your money back?—turn out to be equally thorny. After th...

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Five Potential Impacts of Semiannual SEC Reporting

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If you don’t run a public company, the idea of shifting from quarterly to semiannual financial reporting may sound like a classic case of a solution in search of a problem. There was nothing obviously broken about the system that generated...

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SpaceX Goes Where No Issuer Has Gone Before

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Elon Musk has never had much patience for corporate governance conventions, and SpaceX’s anticipated IPO only underlines the point. According to a Reuters report, SpaceX’s bylaws would require shareholders to “irrevocably and unconditionall...

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SEC Weighs in on Tariff Accounting, Just in Time

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Public companies have been asking a critical question since tariffs started reshaping their cost structures, which has largely gone unanswered: how are we supposed to account for all of this? Fortunately, they just received the closest thin...

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When “We’ll Lock It Up” Stops Working

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The AI industry spent years assuring everyone that its most valuable assets were safely behind walls. Last month, two incidents in five days challenged that assumption. A supply chain attack on Mercor, a $10 billion AI recruiting startup, g...

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