Charles Schumer (D-New York) said a recently completed General Accounting Office report underscored the importance of a 72-hour waiting period.
Caremark points to a 2003 General Accounting Office report claiming that mail-order prices were 27% below retail for brand-name drugs and 53% less for generics.
And even pros can miss potential savings: A recent General Accounting Office report estimated that a million taxpayers overpaid because they didn't itemize their deductions when they should have--even though they had a pro do their return.
Accounting professionals also report their business clients largely remain reluctant to boost capital spending.
Companies must uphold contracts, lenders must use discretion, accounting departments must report accurate financial data and corporate insiders must conduct business responsibly (heck, even legally would do) for credit markets to work like they are intended.
Gas exploration companies like Chesapeake (CHK) or SandRidge (SD) have never been cash flow positive but often report positive accounting earnings.
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Late last night California time in time to make it clear this was no April Fools joke the company announced it has delivered 4750 cars in the first quarter and expected to report an accounting profit when it announces its official results next month.
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In addition to quarterly reports on profits and margins, companies on the LTSE would report using innovation accounting on their internal entrepreneurship efforts.
In one case that my partner and I worked many years ago at a regional bank, this premise was illustrated when an elderly depositor called the bank to report an apparent accounting error of about twenty dollars in interest in her IRS 1099 for her two Certificates of Deposit.
Until the government or the Financial Accounting Standards Board requires companies to report more, this is the best figure available.
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Under current accounting rules most companies do not report the full costs of pension provision in their profit and loss account.
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Because all banks except Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi have now chosen historical cost accounting, however, all will report capital levels greater than the 8% minimum.
The General Accounting Office said in a 2000 report that the result is that many investors don't give fees much thought and overpay, while funds don't compete much on fees.
Ahead of the critical October jobs report due Friday, accounting and banking professionals say the national debt is weighing on business owners as they make critical decisions about jobs and equipment.
The audit of the firm's accounts, by KPMG Huazhen, was unqualified, though the auditor noted that they did not contain all the information needed to meet international accounting standards for a full company report.
This requires it to report under two quite different accounting regimes.
The report says Cadbury reprogrammed its accounting system so employees could submit false invoices, purchase orders and other documents that made it seem as if a new plant were operating, even though it couldn't have been doing so legally.
The reality is that virtually all of the top 200 nonprofits you report on annually follow the same accounting rules that HHV does.
The report calls for immediate action on accounting systems.
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While publicly traded companies in the U.S. must make quarterly financial reports within 45 days of an accounting period's close and an annual report within 90 days, nonprofits need to issue numbers just once a year, and this data can be a year or more out of date.
It was in the form of a blistering, 1, 760-page staff report calling for a government takeover of accounting rules and auditing standards.
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Roper says mark-to-market accounting makes it possible for investors to trust what companies report about themselves.
America's Financial Accounting Standards Board proposed an overhaul of the way banks report loans on their sheets, by linking them more firmly to market valuations.
An attributional accounting protocol that relies on facilities-level GHG balances to report net CO2 uptake and track otherwise unregulated GHG emissions throughout fuel and feedstock supply chains.
Thompson's amendment is particularly timely insofar as it comes as the General Accounting Office (GAO) is completing work on a classified report -- also tasked by the senior Senator from Tennessee -- that looks into this issue.
Such an outburst is uncharacteristic of the traditionally staid Consumer Reports, whose evaluations of vehicles over the decades have been broadly respected in large part because they carried the perceived disinterest of a Congressional Budget Office report or those beauty-pageant votes tallied by accounting firms.
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The numbers in the information given out about the NCAA report are a bit sketchy, and no doubt there are accounting issues in assessing revenues and expenditures.
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Like an audit by an accounting firm, these boards often submit a Shariah audit for the annual report of the Islamic institution they represent and issue Shariah compliance certificates.
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In August of 2012, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the US audit industry regulator, issued its first report on the auditors of broker-dealers under a pilot inspection program.
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