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Study Group: Academic Pension Accounting Specialists(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 17

This study group may include chief financial officers, chartered public accountants, controllers, and consultants knowledgeable on topics such as finance, taxation, auditing, forensic accounting and fraud, financial accounting and reporting, bankruptcy, pension benefits, cash flow, company valuation, working capital, hedge accounting, and mergers and acquisition, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Thomas Klein, CPA, Managing Member, KleinCPA PLLCThomas Klein, CPA
Managing Member
KleinCPA PLLC

Thomas Klein is a Faculty Member in the University of Arizona's Eller College of Business. Mr. Klein teaches Taxation and Financial Accounting courses, both at the undergraduate and graduate (MBA, Masters of Accounting) level. He is also the Managing Member of Klein CPA, a former Deloitte & Touche National...

Dan Gode, Co-Founder, Almaris E-Learning SystemsDan Gode
Co-Founder
Almaris E-Learning Systems

Dan Gode is a Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting, Taxation, and Business Law at New York University Stern School of Business. He is also the Co-Founder of Almaris E-Learning Systems. Professor Gode teaches courses in corporate financial accounting and modeling and projecting financial statements....

Robert Kemp, CPA, Professor, University of Virginia - CCRobert Kemp, CPA
Professor
University of Virginia - CC

Robert Kemp, DBA, CPA, is the Ramon W. Breeden, Senior Research Professor at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. His expertise is accounting and finance, with interest in pensions, corporate strategy, and financial institutions. Professor Kemp’ has knowledge regarding pension...

Paul Miller, CPA, Professor, The Regents of The University of ColoradoPaul Miller, CPA
Professor
The Regents of The University of Colorado

Paul Miller, PhD, is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Dr. Miller has over 35 years of teaching, professional, and regulatory experience in financial reporting, GAAP, with service on the staffs of both FASB and the SEC. He holds a PhD degree from the University...

David Young, Professor, INSEADDavid Young
Professor
INSEAD

David Young, PhD, is a Professor at INSEAD, France. He has experience in corporate financial reporting and value-based management. Dr Young is also the Managing Director of two advisory firms, Value Based Consultants and Goldiner Consulting. Dr. Young has experience in executive education and has conducted...

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Valuation - The Trick Is In The Fundamentals | 08-25-2008
Author: Robert Kemp, CPA, Professor, University of Virginia - CC

To accept or reject an offer to sell all or part of a company is a challenge.  There are two issues.  First is the maximization of shareholder value.  The second is understanding the basis of conflicting valuations. 

Is it bad reporting or does naivete reign at the highest levels? | 08-07-2008
Author: Paul Miller, CPA, Professor, The Regents of The University of Colorado

Maybe it's just me, but these quotes from Herz and Pozen are off-base. When they suggest there could be a pure historical cost system, they are talking about something that doesn't exist and hasn't existed in a 100 years, if even then. I have to believe that Herz was misquoted or misinterpreted; I can...

Securty Writedowns Today May Lead to Massive P&L Charges Later for C, MER and Others | 04-21-2008
Analysis of: A Way Charges Stay Off Bottom Line | online.wsj.com
Author: Thomas Klein, CPA, Managing Member, KleinCPA PLLC

Depending upon management's classification of a security (i.e., either "trading" or "available for sale"), a charge may or may not appear on the income statement in the same period as the write-down on the balance sheet. If the security is classified as a trading security, the charge on the income...

Accounting for subprime investments: Denial is not a river in Egypt | 04-07-2008
Author: Paul Miller, CPA, Professor, The Regents of The University of Colorado

This article reveals the bizarre mindset of managers who (a) want to take huge risks for a shot at high returns, (b) don’t mind reporting results when they succeed, but (c) don’t want to report their losses. To put it another way, they want to invest in risky securities but report income from their...

Value Creation in Banking: The Key Is Information | 04-01-2008
Author: Robert Kemp, CPA, Professor, University of Virginia - CC

1.   Banks create value for shareholders by creating value for customers.  Much of that value to customers is embedded in information systems. 2.   The business of banking evolves quickly, forcing banks to evolve their competitive strategy and resulting advantage.  Information...

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