GLG Topic: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is a U.S. government agency whose mission is to protect investors; maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets; and facilitate capital formation. The SEC regulates the stock market and prevents corporate abuses relating to the offering and sale of securities and corporate reporting. Recent issues of interest include Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD), stock options backdating prosecutions, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
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Ronald Kiima, CPAPresident
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...
Robert HeimPartner
MEYERS & HEIM LLP
Robert G. Heim is Partner at the law firm of Meyers & Heim in New York City, where he specializes in corporate and securities law, including corporate formation and capital raising, securities regulatory work, securities litigation, white collar criminal defense and NASD arbitrations. Previously, Mr....
Robert McCabe, Ph.D., CPA, CFEManaging Partner
McCabe & Associates, PhDs
Robert K McCabe, PhD, is the Managing Partner of McCabe & Associates PhDs, a Colorado based forensic accounting firm that specializes in litigation support and financial statement analysis. Dr. McCabe specializes in SEC accounting and disclosure issues as well as SEC investigations and enforecement....
FormerSenior Partner
HOLLAND & KNIGHT LLP
Mark Saunders was until recently a Senior Partner at Holland & Knight in New York. He specializes in the international, securities and corporate finance, joint ventures, and mergers and acquisitions areas. Mr. Saunders has negotiated transactions in over 20 countries around the world over the course...
Marcel KahanGeorge T. Lowy Professor of Law
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Marcel Kahan is the George T. Lowy Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. His main areas of teaching and research are mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate governance, hedge funds, and bondholder rights. He has acted as consultant and expert witness on issues of corporate law,...
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Will President Bush's recent nomination of two Democrats to the SEC make it more investor friendly? Not likely!
Investors and traders need "buy," "hold" and "sell: signals based on intrinsic value models, e.g., bond, stock, futures, options, swap, real estate, etc. models, but there is no consensus, even among expert economists, what are "fair" intrinsic value models, although a minority consensus is emerging,...
How can an SEC Commissioner who is obviously not familiar with Fair Value estimates call for changing the existing guidance? The value of something is zero if that is what you can buy and sell it for.
The title of the article is a misnomer - it is the FASB not GAAP that is being replaced. With little debate or scrutiny, and no cost/benefit analysis of which I'm aware, the SEC has decided to replace United States GAAP with that of an international body over which it has no control. Accounting...
The article on Florida Property Insurance is somewhat on target. Where it goes aray is injecting government assistance. Politicians never solve anything. The property indemnity marketplace will find viable solutions. The MASH unit approach to property insurance is at best myopic. Insurance companies...
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