Not only is it expensive to buy annuities to fund existing retiree benefits, but financial statement issues also may stymie plan terminations.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is bringing case after case charging private companies and their executives with fraud.
Share prices fall unrealistically low around the time of restatement announcements but then show abnormal positive returns over the longer term.
The institute has been seeking to improve the quality of plan audits since a critical government report in 2015.
The SEC takes the position that public companies must assess and calibrate internal accounting controls for the risk of cyber frauds.
While the number of comment letters the commission sends to filers has waned drastically, the proportion of letters focused on non-GAAP metrics has shot up.
The SEC says the companies included financial statements in reports that had not been reviewed by an independent external auditor.
A U.S. jury finds Sushovan Hussain "misused his special skills in accounting" to inflate the U.K. software firm's revenues before it was acquired by HP.
The order in which a company presents financial statements may present clues about how it wants to be viewed by investors and analysts.
Overseas Shipholding Group and its ex-CFO allegedly failed to recognize $512 million in tax liabilities over a 12-year period.
A defect in GM's internal controls allegedly prevented its accountants from learning about a safety issue for 18 months.
They don't take effect until 2019, but few leases will be grandfathered, so there will be an immediate bottom-line impact.
