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Greater vigilance in overseeing technology strategy shapes up as a key priority for the coming year.
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FASB to Take Up Digital Currencies Question
Current GAAP accounting prohibits a business from showing the true value of its crypto assets, say critics.
By
Vincent Ryan
| October 21, 2020
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Transfer Pricing
Sizing Up Uber’s Fate in Transfer Pricing Audits
Tax authorities in the United States and several other countries are investigating Uber, even though it's a loss company and therefore owes no income taxes.
By
David McCann
| June 14, 2019
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Financial Reporting
Poor Nonfinancial Reporting Tests Investors’ Trust
Many senior finance executives admit that the public has a low level of trust in large companies, often because of nontransparent reporting.
By
David McCann
| November 16, 2018
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Mergers & Acquisitions
How Important Are Intangible Asset Impairments?
Where there are impairments for intangible assets such as goodwill, other liabilities may be lingering on the balance sheet as well.
By
Olga Usvyatsky
| July 19, 2018
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Revenue Recognition
The End of Accounting?
If Baruch Lev is right, the old models don’t work anymore.
By
David Katz
| October 20, 2016
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Talent Management
Intellectual Capital: The Hidden Talent Metric
Talent is what drives intellectual capital — the key element of most companies' value — but neither are well-reflected in corporate books.
By
David McCann
| September 1, 2016
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People
Intangible Assets: They’re Not What You Think They Are
Most intangible assets are not things like trademarks and patents, but rather "tasks" — and CFOs must learn to manage them.
By
William Heitman
| July 19, 2016
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Tax
IRS Seeks Facebook Records in Tax Probe
The agency is investigating whether Facebook understated its tax liability by valuing intellectual property it sold to an Irish subsidiary too cheaply.
By
Matthew Heller
| July 11, 2016
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Strategy
How to Root Out Knowledge Workers’ Waste
While waste on the manufacturing floor is routinely identified and excised, the same can't be said about white-collar waste in creating intangible assets.
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William Heitman
| May 20, 2015
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Risk & Compliance
The Case of the Vanishing Assets
A pair of out-of-synch accounting standards related to intangible assets unfairly penalizes balance sheets.
By
Roger Sinclair and Kevin Keller
| September 11, 2014
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