Financial Reporting

Strategy

HP to Shed up to 9,000 Jobs in Restructuring

The company is regrouping as it faces a decline in the printing business that was once its biggest moneymaker.

Matthew Heller
October 4, 2019
Financial Reporting

Finance Avoids RPA for Financial Reporting

Finance departments are reluctant to remove humans from the financial reporting progress, but Gartner says that misses opportunities for efficiencies.
Fraud

Comscore Fined $5M Over Accounting Fraud

The data analytics giant's former CEO allegedly improperly recognized revenue from non-monetary transactions to beat Wall Street estimates.
Auditing

Microsoft Discloses ‘Critical Audit Matters’

The software giant's auditor, Deloitte, found CAMs related to revenue recognition judgments and uncertain income tax provisions.
Internal Controls

What Canada Teaches Us About Internal Controls

The SEC's proposal to broaden the exemption from Sarbanes-Oxley's internal controls rules is ill-advised, study suggests.
Financial Reporting

Airlines Continue to Struggle with Boeing 737 Max Groundings

Southwest Airlines and American Airlines are warning of the increasing financial toll due to the groundings as thousands of monthly flights are cancelled.
GAAP and IFRS

Goodwill Impairment Testing: Time to Revisit?

FASB’s invitation to comment on goodwill accounting lays out possible cases for doing away with or improving impairment testing.
Financial Reporting

Apple’s Revenue Is Up, but EPS Is Down

Strong iPhone sales in China and record services revenue drive third-quarter results for Apple.
Financial Reporting

Are Women CFOs Less Prone to Financial Misreporting?

In a study of thousands of U.S. companies over 11 years, those with female CFOs were much less likely to file financial reports containing misstatements.
Leadership

What Happens When the CFO Is the COO, Too?

A new academic study could dim perceptions that problems may arise when one executive holds both roles.
Retirement Plans

Why Terminating a Pension Plan May Be Unaffordable

Not only is it expensive to buy annuities to fund existing retiree benefits, but financial statement issues also may stymie plan terminations.
Revenue Recognition

Unclear IR Communications Sent Share Price Tumbling

New CFO at Talend works to overcome investor concerns about the software firm's altered business model and revenue recognition issues.
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