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...
SEC Exploring End of Quarterly Reporting
In his former life as head of the privately held Trump Organization, President Donald J. Trump operated away from the prying eyes of public regulators...
The Ten Most Revealing Statements in Facebook’s Disastrous Earnings Call
It survived the Cambridge Analytica mess. It absorbed the rollout of GDPR. It even weathered the announcement that Facebook would hire 20,000 workers ...
Analysts Get Their Turn
Public companies have many different audiences to which they must answer. As this week’s Facebook hearings remind us, Congress is one of them. So to...
Retail Spotlight: Amazon Effect Spoils Earnings Season for (Some) Retailers
If Amazon has been hovering over Walmart like a dark cloud for some time, February 20 may be remembered as the day it began to rain. Walmart stock suf...