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Tag: Financial Reporting

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Back to the Ledger: The SEC Stands Up a Dedicated Accounting Fraud Unit

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The SEC has created dedicated accounting-fraud teams before. It did so in 2013 with a Financial Reporting and Audit Task Force, and again this past spring with a “SOX group” that arrived with little more fanfare than a pair of job listings....

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The SEC Rethinks What—and How Often—Public Companies Must Disclose

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The SEC is floating some of the biggest changes to its regulatory framework in two decades, all aimed at the same goal: making it cheaper and less burdensome to be a public company. The most eye-catching piece asks a question that would hav...

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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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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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Inadequate Internal Controls Contribute to Surge of Delayed Annual Reports

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A slew of companies both large and small have announced in recent weeks that they would miss the deadline this year for filing their annual reports. Although companies delaying the release of their Form 10-K isn’t unusual, the number doing...

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