Remarks at New York University Forum on Non-GAAP Metrics
By Francine • Nov 16th, 2016Here are my remarks from the panel discussion on non-GAAP metrics I participated in onNovember 7, 2016 at NYU Stern.
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Interesting Disclosures During TBW v. PwC Pre-Trial Period
By Francine • Sep 26th, 2016The TBW v. PwC trial gave the public quite a few interesting disclosures about the audit industry and PwC, including some some pointing to how the firms’ finances, in this case PwC, work.
TBW Plan Trustee v. PwC: A Look at What Led To It and What’s Next
By Francine • Sep 25th, 2016Here’s a brief look at the TBW Plan Trustee v. PwC trial, what led to it and what’s next.
The SEC On Non-GAAP Metrics: A Collection of Writing at MarketWatch
By Francine • Jul 31st, 2016Stay tuned as the non-GAAP use comment letters to the companies who didn’t take the hint on their own or who took some prodding in written from to come around, start making it to EDGAR. Should make for some interesting fall reading.
Peter Thiel’s Pursuit Of Technological Progress; It’s Not About Democracy and It’s Definitely Not About Capitalism – Part 1
By Francine • Jul 25th, 2016Peter Thiel is no philosopher or a new era public intellectual. Thiel is, instead, the embodiment of a technocratic elitist and libertarian individualist with one goal: growth in wealth. This is part 1 of a paper about Thiel I wrote recently for a class in the Masters of Liberal Arts degree program at the University of Chicago.
Peter Thiel’s Pursuit Of Technological Progress; It’s Not About Democracy and It’s Definitely Not About Capitalism – Part 3
By Francine • Jul 25th, 2016As a journalist, a reporter, I sometimes have to read things I would not otherwise. My luxury as a freelance journalist has been to write what I want, for whom I wish, when I want, and charge what the market will bear. Nothing lasts forever.
Peter Thiel’s Pursuit Of Technological Progress; It’s Not About Democracy and It’s Definitely Not About Capitalism – Part 2
By Francine • Jul 25th, 2016One of Peter Thiel’s most interesting ideas is the Thiel Fellowship. It is also his most insidious. In Part 2 of my paper, I talk about borrowing from Timothy Leary, Thiel’s Fellowship initiative, Karl Marx, and the “iron cage” Thiel promotes for anyone not quite as bright as he.
Peter Thiel Is A Trump Supporter, Convention Speaker But Why?
By Francine • Jul 25th, 2016Peter Thiel gave a closing night speech, and endorsement of Donald Trump, at the Republican convention last week.
@MarketWatch: Interactive Brokers Weathers Brexit Well
By Francine • Jun 28th, 2016When I saw, as I was monitoring Twitter late Thursday night, that “Go” would prevail over “Remain” I came into work on Friday morning with a different idea for a story about Interactive Broker than I had originally planned.
@MarketWatch: IEX Becomes an Exchange
By Francine • Jun 26th, 2016Word got out early that the SEC would approve IEX’s application to become a stock exchange on Friday the 17th. As usual, the leak traveled to the big media outlets earlier that week and then the rest of us waited for announcement from the SEC all day.
Francine McKenna (@retheauditors) is the Transparency Reporter at MarketWatch.com, a Dow Jones publication, where her work is also featured frequently in the Wall Street Journal. McKenna had more than twenty-five years of experience in consulting and professional services including tenure at two Big 4 firms, both in the US and abroad before becoming a journalist. Look for her prior columns, 