Accounting & Financial Analysis News 2

• “Cash is King” - A Formula for Estimating “Normalized” Operating Cash Flow
• “The Sting” was fictional but backdating isn’t
• 2007 Accounting Error of the Year: Depreciation and Amortization
• 2008 - Tough Retail market and major consolidation
• 2008 and Homebuilders - Caveat Emptor
• 50 : 50 For Peabody
• A Look at Certain Capital Gains Implications for American Companies in Indian M&A Deals
• A Billion Here, A Billion There ...
• A bottom is Forming
• A Closer Look At Convergence of Accounting Standards: The Reality of Our World
• A Degree of Mauritius Investor Risk
• A Few More “Tidbits” on a “Potential” Insider Trading Scandal – Stay Tuned!
• A look at ETFC through the Eye of an Acquirer
• A menace or blessing?
• A Proper Balance
• A Rate Cut Fails;
• A short comment
• ABN AMRO - RBS, BofA, Poison Pills and the Changing face of Banking Mergers
• Accelerated Reductions in Book Value
• Accounting Development and the Effect of Ayn Rand
• Accounting for Gift Cards - a case for intervention by SEC for revenue recognition disclosures
• Accounting Standards -Need for convergence
• Accounting Standards-Internationalization
• After Open Up Financial Services Now The Credit Card For China
• Allen's bid for the 700 MHz spectrum and Google
• AMD: Hoping against Hope to return to profitability
• American and Indian Stock Markets - The Deepening Connection - Accounting, Auditing and Money Laundering Oversight
• America's survival depends upon a stable long-term energy policy
• Ameritrade chief mulls buying E-Trade operation
• AMTD Merger
• Analyzing Deferred Taxes for Warning Signals and Red Flags
• Analyzing Homebuilder Risks
• Analyzing Inventories for Warning Signals and Red Flags
• Analyzing Payables for Warning Signals and Red Flags
• Analyzing Receivables for Warning Signals and Red Flags
• Analyzing Software Development Costs for Signs of Aggressive Accounting
• Analyzing the business of banking - new trens and old issues
• And I, Am a Monkey's Uncle
• Another Risk Eliminated for PFE
• Another step to become world biggest company for ICBC
• Apple iPhone could become a worthy competitor to Blackberry
• Apple's "bricking the iPhone" does seem extreme but this will be forgotten and dismissed
• Are Fiduciaries Paying Enough Attention to Default Risk
• Are Pensions Ready for Property Derivatives?
• Auditors on the Defensive Worldwide - III
• Auditors on the defensive worldwide - V (The Godfather Effect)
• Auditors on the defensive worldwide - IV
• Avoid Value Destruction at HSBC
• Avoiding Hasty Judgments about Sarbanes-Oxley
• Backdoor to America?
• Banking Mergers - ABN - A look at the Battle - Possible Effects on the Banking Industry
• Banking, education, and economy circulation: Just a few positives of technology?
• Banks & Investors Running For Safety
• Beazer Homes Mortgage Woes
• Beer Brewing Success
• Beware of oversized acquisitions (especially if its the market trend)
• Beware the Cost of Pension Possibilities
• Big Apple Pension to Bite Apple Inc Over Options
• Biggest changes is State and Local in 15 years - Are you ready?
• Bill and his fund will bounce back for sure
• BNP Paribas Approach SocGen
• Budgeting and Financial Analysis
• Business as usual
• Can ARPU be sustained without data growth?
• Can Pension Funds Forgive Hedge Fund Failures?
• Can the Pension World Learn Something from Ayn Rand?
• Can the Pension World Learn Something from Ayn Rand?
• Carbon Emissions and Control - Recent Developments - Accounting Implications
• Carbon Trading, Climate Change, America and the Effects on Corporate Profits
• Carbon Emission and Trading - Judicial Decision - Possible Effect on Corporate Profitability
• Carbon Trading - Growing Acceptability - Hedging - Financial and Accounting Implications
• carmakers in Europe and US not ready for globalisation
• Cash Flow - The true reflection of financial health - Misleading Indicators
• Cash flow manipulation is real
• Cash Price on Plastic Surgery in Hospitals
• Ceiling price of steel bars and billets
• CEO pay - The debate spreads - Implications for US companies doing business in India
• CEO, SALARY=PERFORMANCE?
• Certain Tax Implications for US Companies Doing Business in India - Transfer Pricing
• Changing Face of New Age CFO – Four ‘R’ Concept of Management
• China And Vietnam : Close Partner In Future
• China Desparate To Let Overflow Funds Out
• China Desperates To Put Hot Money In Safe Places
• China on the right track against inflation
• China Overtake Latin American In Many Aspects
• China Parks Hot Money To Insurance Company
• China Races Against Natural Gas
• China should worry about over development and corruption instead of inflation
• China Targets Oil Block In Nigeria
• China's Bank Done The First Investment In US's Bank
• China's Pension Challenge: A Sleeping Dragon
• Chinese New Year Ushers in Pension Reform
• Citi Pains
• Citi will regain its pristine Glory, albeit in a few years
• Clever Little Addition to Monetary Tools
• Coming to terms with fair value accounting
• Construction Fraud or Dissatisfaction?
• Convergence of Accounting Standards: A brief look at some tricky aspects
• Convergence of Accounting Standards - Indian Perspective - Impact on global accounting practices
• Convergence of Accounting Standards - Will it happen - Will it be good for the accounting profession?
• Convergence of Accounting Standards: The Difficult Questions Paradigm
• Convergence of Accounting Standards - The bandwagon moves on - A perspective on India
• Convergence of Auditing Standards - Audit Quality, PCAOB, IFAC and AICPA
• Corporate Earnings Guidance - The Pitfalls and Disclosure Conundrums
• Corporate Performance, Guidance, Stock Values and the Numbers Game
• Cost Mapping-An excellent tool towards enhancement of competitive edge
• cost of acquisition = increase of medical cost?
• Countrywide Problems
• Countrywide Spells Out Its Strategy to Manage Credit Market Crisis
• Credit Crunch - Banking - Accounting Implications - Opportunities
• Credit & the Consumer
• Credit & the Consumer - Update
• CSX Corporation – Underperforming its Class I Peers?
• Currency Volatility : The effect of the Weakening Dollar on Indian Corporate Profits
• Customer financing – the Achilles heel
• D&B? Wait and See!
• Data Growth the key to future profitabiity?
• Debt Markets and Banking - Sub prime Accounting - A Century Later - What Lies Ahead?
• Decision was a mistake and signals huge opportunity
• Derivatives Accounting and their effect on Accounting and Capital Markets
• Derivatives, Mutual Funds and Pensions
• Disclosure and Fiduciary Implications - Big Problem?
• Discounted cash flows – misunderstood, miscalculated, and misapplied
• Do Declared Aims Fit the Company?
• Does Baltimore (CMS) understand reality?
• Don’t Hold your Breath for a Significant Up-tick in IPO Traffic
• Don’t Trust that “Unqualified” Audit Opinion Too Much
• Dow Chemical - Bribery charges - Possible Indian repercussions
• Dow Jones - The Direction ?
• Dow Jones + News Corp = ?
• Eeny Meeny Miny Mo What Accounting Rules Do You Want?
• Effects of Wal-Mart Banking
• Electric Conservation: The Bottom Line
• Eliminating U.S. GAAP Reconciliation – An Idea That’s Probably Ahead of its Time
• Enron Case, A Never Ending Nightmare.
• equal treatment for all companies
• ERM strategy for 2007: boom or bust?
• ESOARS – A New (Controversial) Way to Value Stock Options
• Et Tu New York? What Deregulation Means to Pension Funds
• Evolution in a Corporate Context
• Extending or “Stretching” of Payables – A Common Cash Flow Manipulation Technique
• Fair value - Earnings Quality - Audit and Accounting Conundrums
• Fair value - Securities valuation - CDO and Related Instruments - Valuation Conundrums
• Fair Value Accounting - A Reality Check For US Auditors and Financial Analysts
• fair value accounting put auditors at risk
• Fair Value Is Not a Just or Proper Price
• Faster growth of Internet usage is a boon to individuals and companies
• Fed Cuts Key Rate - Too Little But Maybe Not Too Late
• Fed Monetary Policy - Stagflation - Effects on Accounting and Financial Reporting
• Fed Policy - Subprime Crises - Confusion further compounded - The jigsaw gets convoluted
• Fed Policy - Mortgage Lending - Effect on Accounting Valuation of CDO Instruments
• FIN 48 - A look at the concerns and the possible problem areas
• FIN 48 - Implications for Indian Operations of Companies reporting under US GAAP
• FIN 48 - Will a delay give relief ?
• FIN 48 Exposes Notable Red Flags for Certain Companies
• FIN 48: What and Why?
• FIN 48: What it does and what it will do
• Financial Analysis - The Ultimate Impact of IFRS
• Financial Analysts Beware: The Rules of Pensions Are Always Changing
• Financial Statements – Get Ready for a Potentially Significant “Face-Lift”
• Financial System - Failures - Brickbats - Present and Forthcoming Problems
• Financial/Risk Analysis of Lenders - The Cure May Be As Troublesome As The Problem
• Finding Better Arguments for Amending Sarbox
• Finding Value in US M&A
• Follow Up on Receivable Securitization Programs – “Debt in Disguise”
• Ford's Problems:Operational and Financial
• FRAUD PREVENTION, EASY TO SAY THAN DONE
• Fraud: where does the professional's ultimate responsibility lie?
• Future Impact of New Regulations
• GAAP: An Historical Reflection of the Future & The Politics of Accounting
• General Motors VEBA
• German provide engineering and Russian provide innovation
• Gift Card Accounting – Watch Out for Potential Earnings Management with Retailers and Restaurants
• Global Convergence of Accounting Standards: A Reality Check for Financial Analysts and All Involved
• Global Take Over By Chinese's Banks
• Global Take Over, China Targets Australian Banks
• Global Warming - What are the business implications as America attempts to join the process
• Global Warming is not a myth, but a reality
• GM, Pension Funds, and Risk Management
• Goodwill and Business Combinations - Convergence - SFAS 141 R - Fair Value - A look at Some Questions
• Google's alliance with TomTom will be a worthy competitor to Nokia and Navteq
• Google's entry into the auction is a valuable investment for the future
• Greg Brown is a welcome change and maybe just what Motorola needs.
• Harmony Gold's Accident Threatens Industry's Social License to Operate
• Hedge Fund Monitoring - A Look at Global Regulatory Progress
• Hedge Fund Returns - Illusion or Fact?
• Hedge Funds - Risk, Public Funds and Regulation - Is the Industry going to be grounded?
• Hedge Funds and Risk - The Orphan Effect
• Hedge Funds - Recognition, Respectability and Regulation - at a Global Level
• Hedge Funds - Regulation, Valuation and Compliance
• Hedge Funds - The regulatory syndrome gathers momentum
• Hedge Funds Regulation and Risks - Valuation Methodologies and Risk Conundrums
• Hedging Sub-Prime Mortgage Markets
• Hidden Homebuilding Assets
• Hidden Value in Dell
• Homebuilding Gross Margins May Not Be What They Seem
• HOMEBUILDING: DEPOSIT AND PREACQUISITION COSTS
• Homebuilding--2012 Prediction
• Homebuilding--The Hidden Cash Requirement
• How do we deal with Fair Value
• How much USA can save in ethanol sugar cane
• How Proposed Rules Could Render Current Accounting Practice Meaningless
• How should investors measure earnings quality?
• IBM's New Financial Planning Tool is a Charade
• IBM's ROA Increases on Adoption of New Pension Standard
• IFRS - US GAAP - The steamship gathers speed at a global level
• IFRS future in the hands of politicians, bureaucrats and accountants
• IFRS versus GAAP
• Impact commercial Trade agreement DR CAFTA IN Dominican Republic
• Impact of Joint Venture Agreements between European and US Airlines.
• Implication of substituting IFRS for GAAP
• Importance and Limitations of the Balance Sheet
• Importance of Marginal Cost on Coimpetition and Capacity utilisation
• Importance of Perceived Value in Valuation of Acquisition
• In Fraud, Many Hands Make Light Work
• Income tax update for homebuilders
• Increasing “Buzz” Relating to FIN 48 and Potential “Higher-Risk” Companies
• India Economic Policy - Export Taxation and Incentives - Expected Changes and Effects
• India and the Outsourcing Phenomenon - The Increasing Costs? - The Coming Decline?
• India New Tax Code for 2008
• Indian Economic Environment - The Changing Markets - Budget Expectations - Volatile Expectations
• Indian Economic Policy - Corporate Tax - Minimum Alternative Tax
• Indian Economic Policy - Expected Tax and Economic Incentives - Infrastructure Sector
• Indian Economic Policy - The Dogs and Cats Budget - Minimum Altlernate Tax and Corporate Dividend Tax - Changes - Effects
• Indian Economic Environment - Developments in Indian Capital Markets
• Indian Economic Policy - Budget - Corporate Tax - Fringe Benefit Tax - ESOP - IT Sector
• Indian Economic Policy - Corporate Taxation to Go Up?
• Indian Economic Policy - Budget Expectations - Transfer Pricing And Tax Treaties
• Indian Economic Policy - Retail Market and Foreign Investment - Floodgates to open
• Indian Economic Policy - The evolving retail market - Possible Effects on Walmart and Others
• Indian Securities Markets - A look at the ebb and the Tata Steel, Vodafone and Corporate developments
• Indonesia Needs More Investment In Infrastructure
• Industrial Bank carefully follow the loan growth trend
• Infosys - The Great Financial Results and the Challenges Ahead
• Insurance companies couldn't be happier.
• International Financial Reporting Standards Contribute to Global Economic Progress
• International Tax in India - Rolls Royce Decision
• Interpreting Law and Applying it to Facts
• Investment Scrutiny By the EU: A Delicate Dance
• Investors Punish GM Stock, in Part on Large Deferred Tax Adjustment.
• IRS “Dragnet” Must Now Be Based On “Just The Facts"
• Is Accounting Regulation Being Dismantled?
• Is Dell going to Heck?
• Is ethanol really a solution?
• Is General Motors Dead or Only Sleeping?
• Is There a Pension Crisis?
• Is Vodafone India Tax Dispute Impacted by the Triniti Ruling
• It is not only the option issue, it is also further discoveries of errors and problems
• Japan, recycle again?
• Johnson & Johnson should improve cost structure also quality of products
• Joint Venture Completion Agreements
• Keeping the acquisition pace without proper integration
• KKR WILL KEPT BOOTS IDENTITY
• Kraft: Good FIN 48 News
• Lance Wallach - Veba Specialists Inc.
• LDI Costs Go Up for Plan Sponsors as LIBOR Soars
• Leading indicator for more fair value on the balance sheet?
• Lease Financing - Not about Accounting Alone
• Lease Accounting-- Basic Concepts
• Levi Leaves KPMG
• Life Without a Single EPS Figure or P/E Ratio – Hard to Imagine
• Limited Benefit Insurance- The Right Product for Today's Insurance Crisis
• Linking Options to Share Price
• Liquidity Crunch, Bonds and Pension Plans
• LNG availability and how it could change America
• Lost Horizon - Shangri-La - New Century Financial - Mortgages and Securities Markets - Disappearing Substratum
• Low Loan Loss Reserves at Banks Could Cause Problems Ahead
• Made In China Completely
• Making Huge Profits from What's Happening Next in the Mortage Meltdown
• Man or Machine - Do Pension Trustees Know?
• Managing market Capitalisation-An Effective Tool towards Corporate Excellence
• Marginal Costing - The Relevance for Financial Analysis
• Marketable “Trading” Securities – Watch Out for Material Distortions to Operating Cash Flow
• Mastermind Or Scape Goat For SocGen
• MATERIALITY: WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT?
• Merger of Katanga and Nikanor to Create Value by Unlocking Synergies of Adjacent Properties
• Merger to Survive
• Mergers & Acquisitions, Issue Of Fresh Equity, Asset Recovery ( NPAs) , Encouraging Joint ventures with overseas banks, promoting competitive environment
• Merrill Lynch - Subprime Writedowns - The Industry Future
• Micron entry into SSD's is late but looks promising
• Microsoft And Yahoo, Deal Or No Deal?
• Microsoft Vs. Yahoo
• Middle East Middle Class- MEMC-Healthcare
• Mining Projects in Under-Developed Countries are Risky Ventures
• Missing Collateral = More Risk for Hedge Funds and Pension Plans
• Model Risk - Great Unknown for Pension Plans
• Moore Nukes for Greenpeace?
• Morgan Stanley India Viewpoint
• Mr Bush : leading or following?
• Mr Bush, smart move at last
• NASDAQ-OMX - A look at global consolidation of Securities Markets - Where are we heading?
• Needed: More Accountants Serving as “Financial Experts” on Audit Committees
• New Acquisition Accounting Standard – Let’s Hope for Improved Fair Value Measurements
• New Era Aviation
• New IRS Form Mandates Governance Disclosures for Non Profits - What About Pensions?
• Newmont charges point to problematic accounting for the Mining Industry
• No Harman Trying
• Nokia's offering is unique but may not be enough to topple Apple/iTunes
• Non Performing Banking Assets and Banking Sector Decline - Possible Taiwanese Corrective Steps
• Non-Reliance typically Implies Negative Future Returns
• Northern Rock - Control - Subprime - Taking the Clock Backwards - Pointers to Difficult Times for the Banking and Securities Industry
• Not entirely clear what the evidence suggests regarding insiders' Rule 10b5-1 use
• Nutmeg State Seeks Pension Disclosure from Hedge Funds
• Oh! Those Confusing Derivatives - A Brief Look At The FASB Exposure Draft
• Old Electrons in New Bottles
• Opening up Retail Sector In India
• Option Abuse: What to Do?
• Options Backdating - The Nemesis Phase
• Options on Exchange Rate
• Options Volatility - Indices, Accounting Conundrums and Effects on Markets
• Options, Pensions and the SEC
• Orlando Real Estate- Have we hit bottom?
• Outsourcing - The Down Side - The Failures - Will they not stop the growing phenomenon?
• Outsourcing - What keeps it going - The pro's, con's and future
• Outsourcing is an American management cop-out
• Ox in the Box
• PE Firms Unfair Tax Treatment
• Pending Change in Lease Accounting – Certain Financial Metrics Could Look Much Different
• Pension Funds - No Place for Excessive Risks
• Pension funds, property derivatives, and risk
• Pension Investment Risk Disclosure - What Don't You Know?
• Pension Pressure Reduced - Good News For Corporate Valuation
• Pension Risk and Hedge Fund Cherry Picking
• Pension Risk Management: The Tipping Point
• Pensions - Management is responding to economic realities
• Pensions and Hedge Funds and Private Equity - Assessing Risks
• Pensions and OPEB - Make Sure You Know "All" The Risks
• Pensions and Risk Management - An Underlying Cause of Neglect
• Pensions, Risk, and Reality
• Petrodollar Recycling: A Marriage of Economic Convenience
• Physician use of Computers
• Please Re-Lease Me
• Popular “Cash-Settled” Convertibles to Become Extinct?
• Post Election Trauma
• Potential forward-looking insight from insiders' equity transactions
• Predicting Option Abuse
• Private Equity - Capital Markets - Hedge Funds - How far will financial disintermediation Go?
• Private Equity - Hedge Funds - London - Amsterdam - New York - Will Europe steal a march in the capital markets field?
• Private Equity Firms Create More Market Risk
• Prospects of the Radio industry in 2008
• PWC, scapecoat of Russia political agenda.
• Quants and LBO down, who first and who later.
• Questionable Benefits of Yamaha, Meridian and Northern Orion Resources merger
• Receivable Securitization and Factoring Programs – A Common Cash Flow Manipulation Technique
• Reducing Complexity in Financial Reporting – Moving One Step Forward and Two Steps Back?
• Repayments to Medicare May Be Too Much to Ask
• Replacing GAAP with IFRS is a plus for the Global business
• Restatements are absolutely relevant and essential, without question
• Retirement plans and the IRS
• Revised IAS 1 - Where are Accounting Standards Heading - Is there a confusion?
• Risk Lessons from the Financial Services Industry
• RISK MANAGEMENT: ANOTHER VIEW
• Risk Mitigation Strategy and Hedge Funds
• Risk, Fair Value and Asset Valuations in a Accounting Context
• Rolls Royce India
• Russian auditing priciples, where to next?
• Salaries and Bonuses for Investment Risk Professionals
• Samsung, Micron and Sandisk stand to benefit big-time with SSD technology
• Sarbox - The Creator, The Offspring, Internal Controls and Corporate Investment
• Scorecards Represent a Simple and Inexpensive Tool in Hospital Turnarounds
• SEC charge the real culprits, the former CFO and ex-CEO of Quovadx
• SEC Schedule II - Visibility into the Integrity of Reported Results
• Securities Markets - Convergence of Derivatives Markets and Lurking Dangers to Global Derivative Values
• Securities Markets - Roller Coaster Competitivenes - Regulatory Changes in the Offing?
• Selling Active Asset Management to the Skeptics
• Separate controllable from uncontrollable producer cost pressures during price upswings in mineral commodities
• SFAS 154 - IAS 8 - Accounting Restatements Conundrum - Convergence of Accounting Standards - Implications for Analysts
• SFAS 159 - IAS 39 - FAIR VALUE DISCLOSURE - CONVERGENCE USGAAP/IFRS - FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
• SFAS 159 – New Standard Can Lead to “Counterintuitive” Impacts on P&L and Comparability Problems
• Should Sovereign-wealth funds be regulated?
• Singapore did it again
• Singapore Eye On Latin America
• SingTel Faces Fierce Challenge Over Takeover Target
• Sinosteel Raises Stake In Midwest Corporation Just To Scare Off Competitors
• Smooth Pensions - Accounting Valuation and Issues - Subprime Crisis - An overview
• SocGen - The Fraud - Subprime - Controls - Effect on Banking and Controls and the Coming Recession
• Some of the Red Flags to look out for
• Sovereign-Wealth Funds Reposition Themselves
• Speculation and commissions in crude oil trading could be influencing OPEC to lie
• SPRINGTIME FOR ETHANOL? NOT SO FAST
• Sprint and how they should play WiMAX
• Sprint’s WiMax vision is a dangerous diversion to its future growth
• Standards Convergence - Divergences of Opinion - Where do we go further
• Stock Options - Will SEC enforcement effectively combat the disease and malady
• Subprime - Hedge Funds - Markets - Changing Equations
• Subprime Insurance - Credit Default Swaps - The Unknown Paradigm
• Subprime Crisis - Changing Equations - Effects on Global Banking
• Subprime Crisis - Valution and Risk Conundrums - Accounting Perspective
• Subprime Insurance - Credit Default Swaps - The Whirlpool
• Subprime mortgages - A indicator for global securities volatility?
• Subprime Mortgages - The Effect That Will Stay
• Support for Fed Policy - Why I Disagree - How overall economic costs will increase
• Swing Bed Strategy
• Tata Motors - Nano - Indian and International Auto Market - Cost Paramenters and Emission changes
• Tata Steel-Corus - Financing Plans - Credit Derivatives - Effect on Markets and Merger Financing
• Tax & Regulatory - India
• tax deferred retirement plan vs. life insurance
• Telefónica – the most aggressive European telco?
• Temasek Shown Its Teeth
• Tension in Darfur and it relevance to oil supply security by Simplification Made Simple Ltd
• That’s no shadow – it’s sunlight on pension problems
• The Balance Sheet - The Age Old Conundrum
• The CDO and Credit Derivative Market in Shambles - Humpty Dumpty Falls - Will the Industry be resurrected?
• The CDO and Mortgage Crises - Bernanke and The Fed - Confusion Compounded !
• The Collapsing Hedge Funds - Hedge Funds come closer to regulation
• The Effects on Business Profitability - The G8 summit - The Decision to move forward on Global Warming
• The Endeavour to Make Eminent Sense of Financial Statements
• The Mortgage Crises - Effects on Financial Markets - The imploding CDO segment - Effects on hedge fund portfolios
• The Relevance of Actvity Based Costing in Evaluating Corporate Performance
• The Subprime Crises - Will we see a end to the credit denial cycle
• The Subprime Crisis - The Long Term Effects
• The Subprime Crisis and the Mitigation of Risk
• The Abracadabra of Valuation - Pension Fiduciaries Beware
• The Auto Industry - It's Simple Risk and Return Regarding Health Care Issues
• The balance sheet has its flaws – but it’s critical to “dig deep” into this statement
• The Battle for the Mexican Telecom Market
• The Changing Cost of Carbon on Corporate Profits and Accounting
• The Changing World of Investments - Changing Perceptions and Challenges
• The Dow Jones Sale - Shifting Power Centers?
• The DRAM market is at its bottom now and is poised to recover over the next 8-12 months
• The Fair Value Challenge: The Real Challenge for the PCAOB, Auditors, and Financial Analysts
• The Fed Acts to Control the Subprime Crises - Will the Markets Remain Confused ?- Will the Subprime Crises Roll Over?
• The Force Behind Bank Mergers: Don't Forget Basel II
• The Great Game - Gaming & Potential New Markets
• The Impact of New Derivative Products in India
• The Importance of Zero Base Budgeting for Corporate Performance , Appraisal and Outsourcing
• The Indian Budget - Some Implications for Non Indian Investors
• The many mistakes startup companies make
• The Murdoch Dow Jones Bid - A new era in information control
• The Need to Balance Return and Risk: Wake Up Call for Pension Funds
• The New Banking System - Shadow Banking - The Collapse - When Will the Ineffective Central Bankers Gain Control
• The PCAOB misses the main point – by a mile
• The Pension and Old Age Conundrum - A look at the measurement and funding of liabilities
• THE PROPRIETY OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS
• The Real Cure for SARBOX or the Iatrogenic Illness
• The reflection of the Harry Potter magic world
• The rise of agricultural banks in China, how real is that?
• The Shape Of The Converging Global Capital Marketplace
• The Story Behind : China Agrees To Open Up Financial Services Industry
• The sub prime lending debacle - It's all in the mind
• The subprime crisis - The Confusion goes further - Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
• The sub-prime meltdown has far reaching accounting effects
• The traps of Tax-Efficient Cross-Border M&A
• The Value of E-Trade
• The Vodafone Hutch Deal - Hiccups and Stumbling Blocks to Smooth Working
• The world of Voldemart and its relationship to CDO valuation and accounting fraud
• This seems like a minor issue but may signal a deeper problem
• Thomson-Reuters and the Control of Financial Information. How far will the business information war spread?
• Thoughts on the impact on third quarter earnings from the crisis in subprime mortgages
• T-Mobile and Huawei: Will create positive synergies for both companies.
• Trade the Sensex in US
• Transmission? Bet the Line!
• Two Hedge Funds Report Assets Are Nearly Gone
• U.S. GAAP vs. IFRS – Like It or Not – It’s Probably Time for a Better Understanding
• UBS - DRCM - Hedge Funds - Sub prime mortgages - The impact on financial institutions, markets and managers
• Understanding the Pros and Cons of Pension Fund Investing - the Issue Applied to Asian Investments
• US Banking System Needs Restructuring
• US Can't Isolate Themself Anymore
• US capital markets, rules and competitiveness - Are we set for a sea-change and major overhaul?
• US GAAP: A Foreseeable Death
• US loss the attrativenss
• Valuation Problems Are Going To Cost Plan Sponsors Big Time
• Value High Yield Shares As Hybrids
• Value in Citi?
• Vatican leads environment awareness
• VeriFone Holdings (PAY) – Hindsight is “20-20” – But Some Potential Red Flags Existed
• Verizon believes in open networks and plans to benefit from it
• Verizon's Voyager is not a threat to either the iPhone or the Blackberry
• Vietnam, Target Of Run Away Industries From China
• Vodafone India Tax Dispute
• Vodafone Q3 2006 results
• Vodafone strategy. What strategy?
• Wait and see
• Walk in Clinic business may not be as easy as it appears.
• Wall Street May Be in for a Rude Awakening
• Walmart at it's highest
• Wal-Mart Banking on the Unbanked
• Wal-Mart’s “Ominous” Invisible Banking-Hand
• What can be done to improve ER collections?
• What is the 2008 outlook for homebuilding?
• What Microsoft Next Move Over Yahoo?
• What will be the resultant effects of Universal Health Coverage?
• When Liquidity Dries Up
• When making investment decisions, the more information you have, the better...
• WHEN WILL HOUSING RECOVER?
• Where Do The SEC's Interest Lie?
• which one more benefit to US, outsourcing or globalisation?
• Why Open Office Will Not be able to Replace Microsoft Excel
• Why should investors care about earnings quality?
• Will ESOARs Soar?
• Will IFRS be required soon?
• Will Legg Mason Continue its Winning Streak
• Win-Win Logistics Move - FEDEX - Wincor Nixdorf
• World biggest company, in China?
• Writedowns of Retained Interests Could be Next Shoe to Drop for Subprime Lenders
• WSJ - The battle for control - News Corp. - Rhodes - Beyond the Core
• WSJ - The Fountainhead and the Gail Wynand Effect - What is the future of Business News?
• XBRL-good to data end user but bad to data producer.
• Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
• ZBB or Fuzzy Budgeting