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View through rose-colored lenses

CrowdStrike’s Woes Highlight Concerns About Bespoke Accounting Metric

View through rose-colored lenses

By any measure, the last two weeks of July have been brutal for cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike reported what it called “exceptional” first quarter financial results in early June – taunting competitors Microsoft and Palo Alto N...

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Beehive

A Flurry of Audit Activity at PCAOB, FASB

Beehive

There is no indication of the typical “summer slowdown” at the Public Company Accounting and Oversight Board or the Financial Accounting Standards Board. In fact, the PCAOB and FASB have been quite active in June, approving a slew of rule c...

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Dart board

New Audit Standards Accompanied by Calls for Stronger Leadership

Dart board

The top accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission has had enough with auditors behaving badly, and he’s taking aim at the leadership of their firms as regulators move to tighten up auditing standards. In a statement issued earlie...

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Growth of SPACs Prompts Concerns Over Audit Quality

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Special purpose acquisition companies – more commonly known as SPACs – have seemingly disappeared from the investing scene in recent years. And when they do make the news, it’s usually news of the wrong kind. After a tidal wave of SPACs was...

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A crop harvested in stripes

Thirty Years After ‘Informant!’ Scandal, Inquiry Probes Executive Bonuses at ADM

A crop harvested in stripes

A Midwestern agribusiness may seem like an unlikely setting for million-dollar corporate intrigue, but that’s not for lack of trying on the part of Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. Roughly 30 years after the food-processing company endured a Holl...

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