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CFA Institute Forms Working Group to Address Performance Calculations of Private Funds

CFA Institute forms working group to draft guidance on calculating private fund performance. 

Taking Credit: Navigating the Ethical Challenges of Impact Reporting

As the demand for sustainable investing continues to grow, navigating ethical challenges in impact reporting will be essential.

FASB Exposure Draft on Disaggregation of Income Statement Expense: A Glass Half Empty

While the FASB's proposed partial disaggregation would be helpful to investors, we are discouraged by its limited scope after waiting so many years.

The First Republic Takeover: What Happened?

First Republic’s investment of its significant uninsured deposits in jumbo loans left it illiquid in a rising interest rate environment.

Wirecard Scandal Spurs European Commission Consult to Enhance the Quality and Reliability of Corporate Reporting in Europe

The implosion of Germany’s Wirecard has demonstrated that those parties – management, the audit committee and board, auditors, audit regulators, and corporate reporting regulators – investors compensate and rely upon to look after their capital investments failed them on multiple levels in the European Union’s (EU’s) largest economy.

Can Blockchain Technology Help with The Production of Financial Reporting Information?

A recent CFA Institute report discusses what a blockchain is and answers the question posed in the article title, Can Blockchain Technology Help with The Production of Financial Reporting Information?

Second Quarter 2020 Amid COVID-19: Investor and Audit Committee Considerations

We encourage investors to “look under the hood” at the results — not for their predictive ability this quarter per se but rather for the ability of a company’s forward-looking statements to be evaluated and to make their own assessments of future prospects. Until there is a vaccine, company results and outlook will likely be filled with uncertainty, and these interim results can provide insight into the impact of the pandemic and how the business may respond in the future as the pandemic ebbs and flows over the next few years.

Second Quarter 2020 Amid COVID-19: Investor and Audit Committee Considerations

Due to the impact of COVID-19 on how companies are reporting during the second quarter/half year, investors likely need to perform their own going concern analysis.

Second Quarter 2020 Amid COVID-19: Investor and Audit Committee Considerations

The second quarter, ending June 30, will result in US companies providing investors with the first look at the actual impact of COVID-19 on US public companies; and globally, companies will release their half-yearly results for the first time since the global surge in the pandemic.