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Study Group: Sarbanes-Oxley Accounting Experts(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 19

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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Ronald Kiima, CPA, President , Kiima IncorporatedRonald Kiima, CPA
President
Kiima Incorporated

Ronald A. Kiima is a former SEC Assistant Chief Accountant. Mr. Kiima is currently the President of Kiima Incorporated, a private consulting firm specializing in SEC accounting and disclosure issues, SEC registration statements and periodic reports, SEC investigations and enforcement proceedings, corporate...

Arthur Montilla
Managing Partner
Neil Montilla, Inc.

Neil Montilla is an independent consultant supporting primarely off shore financial institutions in strengthening their payment systems strategies, risk management and internal controls. He has provided consulting services to several banks in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and Europe as well as discussing...

Dwight Crawley, Chief Financial Officer, Natura WaterDwight Crawley
Chief Financial Officer
Natura Water

Dwight Crawley is an Chief Financial Officer at Coverall Concepts, a commercial cleaning company, where he has worked since October 2007. Mr. Crawley is an experience financial executive with experience in several companies as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, he was a Chief Financial Officer at...

Peter Culpepper, CPA, MBA, Chief Financial Officer, Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Peter Culpepper, CPA, MBA
Chief Financial Officer
Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Peter Culpepper is the Chief Financial Officer at Provectus Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Culpepper has experience in prescription (therapeutic), biotech, healthcare OTC, specialty pharma, and medical device products. Previous to that, Mr. Culpepper served as the Chief Financial Officer at Felix Culpepper International,...

Bradley Townsend
Chief Financial Officer
Advanced Interactive Systems, Inc.

Bradley Townsend is the CFO of Advanced Interactive Systems, a defense simulated training company. Prior to joining AIS, he was Vice President of Finance at SafeNet, a network security software company, where he was lead in taking the company private. As Corporate Controller for VectroSGI from 2003...

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Bush Nominates Two Democrats to SEC: More of the Same is Likely | 03-31-2008
Analysis of: White House to Tap Two Dems to SEC | www.cfo.com
Author: Ronald Kiima, CPA, President , Kiima Incorporated

Will President Bush's recent nomination of two Democrats to the SEC make it more investor friendly?  Not likely!

2007 Accounting Error of the Year: Depreciation and Amortization | 01-02-2008
Analysis of: Securities Suits Spike in 2007 | www.cfo.com
Author: Ronald Kiima, CPA, President , Kiima Incorporated

The subject article provides some interesting insights into the upward reversal in the number of securities class-action lawsuits filed during 2007.  Given such, I thought it might be fitting to offer my personal insights into what I continue to believe is the most common, yet rarely noticed, accounting...

SEC Schedule II - Visibility into the Integrity of Reported Results | 09-11-2007
Author: Ronald Kiima, CPA, President , Kiima Incorporated

Few other disclosures give as much visibility into the integrity of a company’s reported results like the SEC’s Schedule II – Valuation and Qualifying Accounts. Unfortunately, despite such schedule being required of most public companies, few companies seemingly fully comply. The absence of otherwise...

US GAAP: A Foreseeable Death | 03-08-2007
Analysis of: One Accounting Standard for All? | www.cfo.com
Author: Ronald Kiima, CPA, President , Kiima Incorporated

This article raises the question as to whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) will ultimately mandate that domestic public companies report their financial results pursuant to International Financial Reporting Standards (“IFRS”).  I believe, as a former SEC Assistant Chief...

Don’t Hold your Breath for a Significant Up-tick in IPO Traffic | 02-21-2007
Analysis of: An IPO Resurgence? | www.cfo.com
Author: Bradley Townsend, Chief Financial Officer, Advanced Interactive Systems, Inc.

This is the first article I’ve read in almost a year that actually mentions a positive outlook for US based IPO traffic. Besides using a limited number of references, where does this article fall short defending this idea?

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