Archive for the ‘Fair Value’ Category

McKenna in Accountancy Magazine

By Francine • Jul 7th, 2009

 I was asked by Accountancy Magazine in the UK to write a summary of the Compliance Week Annual Conference for their readers.  This article, entitled ”Regulatory Reformation,“ can be found here.  Please let me know what you think.

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FEI Lists The Top Challenges for 2009 – An Interview With James Abel

By Francine • Dec 17th, 2008

Financial Executives International has just released the results of their survey, “2009 Top Challenges for Financial Executives,” and it’s quite interesting to see what a difference a year makes.

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PCAOB – Seeing The Big 4 Through Rose Colored Glasses

By Francine • Dec 12th, 2008

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the AICPA National Conference on PCAOB and SEC Developments  in person.  As much as I would have loved to be there live, to ask questions and, perhaps, walk all over the wafflers with my Manolos, it’s not always possible.  In this case it may have been just as well. [...]

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A Question Of Value – Why So Much Ado?

By Francine • Oct 21st, 2008

What we have we prize not to the worthWhiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,Why, then we rack the value, then we findThe virtue that possession would not show usWhiles it was ours.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Friar Francis, in Much Ado About Nothing, act 4, sc. 1, l. 218-22. We do [...]

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Fair Value – What Goes Up, Must Come Down

By Francine • Apr 14th, 2008

Take a look at Edith Orenstein’s exhaustive summary from April 11:

IMF, IIF Rec’s on Market Turmoil Are Far-Reaching, Include Fair Value, Off-Balance Sheet; Q&A With Michael Young, Willkie Farr

It’s everything you always wanted to know about the latest in fair value accounting, FAS 157, and the role of accounting standards in economic activity.

Re: the auditors’ role [...]

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