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FASB: A New Hope for Raising Corporate Taxes

FASB: A New Hope for Raising Corporate Taxes

FASB: A New Hope for Raising Corporate Taxes

It makes for a splashy headline every year after watchdog groups get a chance to comb through corporate financial statements: “[INSERT NAMES OF BIG CORPORATIONS] Paid No Taxes in [INSERT LAST YEAR].” For example, the Institute on Taxation a...

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Applicants awaiting interviews, discussing eco disclosures

Help Wanted: ESG Auditors and Consultants

Applicants awaiting interviews, discussing eco disclosures

Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules for disclosing risks related to climate change, publicly traded companies are starting the heavy lifting involved in reporting the newly required environmental, social and g...

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SEC Indicates New Concerns Over Auditor Independence

Spiral iron gate railings meeting SOX compliance.

Who’s watching the watchers? It’s a question that has preoccupied conspiracy theorists and flummoxed polities for centuries. It seems to come up regularly in the world of corporate governance, too, when assessing Wall Street gatekeepers who...

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Human Capital: The SEC’s Next Disclosure Frontier

Fanfare Trumpets in marching band

The Securities and Exchange Commission this year proposed new rules regarding corporate disclosures of environmental performance to great fanfare. A less-heralded ESG-related proposal also seems to be in the works, as the agency is working...

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Eco-friendly lounge set with carbon offsets

FASB Begins Process of Setting Accounting Standards for Environmental Reporting

Eco-friendly lounge set with carbon offsets

Summer is the season for projects. As day-to-day life slows down for a few months, the most industrious among us often use the break to knock out nagging tasks that have been sitting on to-do lists. DIYers – those fanatics who spend their d...

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