Change the accounting rules drastically and most corporate earnings as we now know them could disappear.
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That may have been good economic policy, but it hardly promoted uniform accounting standards.
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So the best we can do is ask: What is the most meaningful Accounting Truth?
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Investors are understandably bone-tired after seeing one accounting calamity after another splattered across the front pages.
India currently ranks fifth in the world in CO2 emissions, accounting for 4.7% of the total.
Decades from now there will be another bubble, and the accounting scandals will come back to life.
It also said it had commissioned an independent audit by one of the "big four accounting firms".
Short of issuing subpoenas to detect accounting fraud, how can you improve your odds as an investor?
Last year felt like a saturation bombing of accounting fiascos, from Enron to WorldCom to Adelphia and more.
But there have also been questions raised about Ahold's accounting practices in its Latin American and Swedish operations.
Accounting professionals also report their business clients largely remain reluctant to boost capital spending.
Official heads nodded in agreement but, at some stage, there will have to be an accounting.
Roper says mark-to-market accounting makes it possible for investors to trust what companies report about themselves.
In an odd twist, the current regulation doesn't require mark-to-market accounting in every situation.
With the market value plummeting, he argued, mark-to-market accounting turned AIG's balance sheet into a nightmare.
By 2025, Millennials will be running things, accounting for 75 percent of the available workforce.
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The SEC said Illinois didn't properly reveal the risks posed by this sophisticated accounting wrinkle.
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The tenant was accounting firm Arthur Andersen, which disintegrated before it could move in.
After any war, there can never be a complete accounting for all of the missing.
It contracts some tax and accounting advice from PricewaterhouseCoopers and uses Bankers Trust as a custodian.
Nelson Doubleday joins players in saying that baseball's accounting and claimed losses are a sham.
There are organizational factors accounting for this resistance to the ongoing ascendancy of the GCs.
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What do they need to do now in order to clean up their accounting and transparency?
Investors in Chinese companies are currently on a buyer's strike because of the widespread accounting scandals.
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Mr. Gillis is a professor of accounting at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University.
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Still, she points out that some returns are hard to quantify in normal accounting terms.
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Executives with a background in engineering, accounting, or finance were plain clumsy at it.
How else could you possibly make up for all the headaches and accounting bills?
Every franchisee attends "Bug U" for classes in accounting, customer service, marketing and treating bacterial strains.
Our accounting mistake is wreaking ecological and economic damage across the U.S. and the world.
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