For those working for accounting firms or public companies that file with the U.S. SEC, the regulator’s adoption of the 2011 U.S. GAAP Financial Reporting Taxonomy likely appeared on your radar. The same people likely took… READ MORE ›
Just in time for the 2011 proxy season — and the Dodd-Frank mandated “say-on-pay” rules — CFA Institute has released the Compensation Discussion and Analysis Template (PDF). Based on input from issuer and… READ MORE ›
CFA Institute along with its advisory committee, the Corporate Disclosure Policy Council (CDPC), recently held its annual meeting with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), available by audio webcast.
The 11 February meeting was… READ MORE ›
ProPublica’s Jesse Eisinger has an interesting piece out on the latest round of “stress tests” required by the Federal Reserve. The Fed won plaudits for its handling of stress testing of… READ MORE ›
As if financial reporting rules were not already sufficiently technical, the U.S. SEC is making up new lingo to sell the idea of having a single accounting language in the U.S.
Currently, the average analyst and… READ MORE ›
James Grant is founder of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, which has been an independent, value-oriented and contrary-minded journal of the financial markets for almost three decades, and he is a founding general… READ MORE ›
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One of the least-controversial parts of Dodd-Frank was its call for a new Office of Credit Ratings at the SEC. Among other things, this new office would implement D-F’s provisions for oversight of credit rating… READ MORE ›
The philosophy behind the creation of the CFA Institute CD&A Template (PDF) was simple: a succinct, plain-English summary of a company’s executive compensation practices to give shareowners all the information they need to make an informed decision… READ MORE ›
Philippa (Pippa) Malmgren is president and founder of the Canonbury Group and Principalis Asset Management, as well as a senior advisor to Deustche Bank in Asia and the Middle East, Prudential… READ MORE ›