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3 Ways Finance Is Armoring Up for a Future of Disruption
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| August 15, 2022
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SEC Fines GM $1M Over Accounting for Recall
A defect in GM's internal controls allegedly prevented its accountants from learning about a safety issue for 18 months.
By
Matthew Heller
| January 19, 2017
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Strategy
Start Preparing Now for New Lease Accounting Rules
They don't take effect until 2019, but few leases will be grandfathered, so there will be an immediate bottom-line impact.
By
Sean Moynihan
| December 29, 2016
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Risk & Compliance
Ex-IEC Electronics Execs ‘Pumped Up’ Profits
The two executives have settled SEC charges that they used false inventory accounting to meet IEC's gross profit margin targets.
By
Katie Kuehner-Hebert
| June 9, 2016
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Risk & Compliance
Staffing Firm Fires CFO for Misstating Costs
Barrett Business Services stock plunges 33% after it discloses James Miller made "“unsupported journal entries” in financial records.
By
Matthew Heller
| March 11, 2016
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Risk & Compliance
Five Accountants Charged With Audit Violations
The SEC alleges CPA Peter Messineo owned stakes in companies that the firm he worked for was auditing.
By
Matthew Heller
| December 14, 2015
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Risk & Compliance
Top OCZ Execs Charged With Accounting Fraud
Former CFO Arthur Knapp agrees to pay $130,000 to settle charges he failed to prevent the misclassification of sales discounts.
By
Matthew Heller
| October 7, 2015
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Risk & Compliance
Audit Firms to Pay $318K Over Microcap Fraud
De Joya Griffith and M&K CPAS were accused of defectively auditing the financial statements of purported mining companies.
By
Matthew Heller
| September 21, 2015
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Regulation
BDO to Pay $2.1Million Over Deficient Audits
The SEC alleges the big accounting firm ignored red flags in signing off on the financial statements of an employment staffing company.
By
Matthew Heller
| September 9, 2015
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Global Business
EC Stands Behind IASB Accounting Rules
Report finds that IFRS helped more than harmed during the 2007-09 banking crisis.
By
Katie Kuehner-Hebert
| June 22, 2015
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Regulation
PCAOB Preparing New Rule for Audits of Accounting Estimates
The PCAOB staff plans to discuss auditors’ responsibilities for accounting estimates with the Standing Advisory Group in June.
By
Matthew Heller
| April 9, 2015
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Regulation
Adoption of Clawbacks Tied to Earnings Manipulation
Voluntary adoption of clawback policies is correlated with an increase in "real transactions management," a way to artificially boost earnings.
By
Matthew Heller
| January 21, 2015
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Management Accounting
Tackling Disclosure Overload
Regulators are calling on companies to reduce the boilerplate and improve the effectiveness of financial reporting.
By
David Katz
| December 29, 2014
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Risk Management
Another Look at Auditor Nightmares
The PCAOB will take a second crack at a proposal to require an auditor to reveal the thinking behind troublesome audit opinions.
By
David Katz
| December 5, 2014
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Risk & Compliance
PCAOB’s ‘Audit Failure’ Rate Is Highly Suspect
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board is making loose, misleading statements about the quality of public company audits.
By
Mark Peecher and Ira Solomon
| February 27, 2014
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Tax
Fixing the Financial Close Process
Financial executives work to rehabilitate the dysfunctional close-to-disclose process by highlighting efficiency, standardization and streamlining.
By
Alissa Ponchione
| January 27, 2014
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