Study Group: Telecommunication Service Industry Financial Statement Analysis Experts(?)

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...

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...

You can never judge a book by its cover or a seminar by its flier, but Harris Solutions is on to something here.  If you have accepted the SCF as pure and not manipulable, you may very well want to attend to find out more about the sly maneuvers on the fringes of GAAP that pump up the operating...

Restatements are not triggered by Sarbanes-Oxley but are caused by management’s financial statement errors, either deliberate or inadvertent.  Thus, any arguments that restatements are unimportant are fatuous.  These opponents are asserting that it’s suitable public policy to allow managers...

The silver lining in the so-called Subprime Crisis is that it is yet another event that illustrates the need for greater quantities of more useful information in financial statements and financial reports.  As long as management chooses to comply only with the most minimum of standards, they are...