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Man Sets Hotel Fire To Avoid His Wedding: A Japanese man tried to get out of his wedding by setting fire to the hotel where the ceremony was supposed to take place. [more]
Birth Order May Affect Career Choices: According to a recent survey by CareerBuilder.com, birth order seems to affect people's career choices. [more]
CNN Beams Up Correspondent: CNN used its new 3-D hologram technology to "beam" correspondent Jessica Yellin from Chicago to Wolf Blitzer's studio in New York during election coverage. [more]
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Insider Trading "Safe Harbor" Under Scrutiny: The SEC is stepping up its investigation of insider trading, and an important focus is 10b5-1 stock selling plans. [more]
PCAOB Approves New Auditing Standard No. 6: The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has ratified Auditing Standard No 6, Evaluating Consistency of Financial Statements, which should pair well with SFAS No 154. [more]
IRS Audits on the Rise: The Internal Revenue Service reports that it has upped its enforcement efforts, auditing 14 percent more business returns in fiscal year 2007 than in fiscal year 2006. [more]
Former Brocade CEO Will Serve Time for Backdating: Gregory Reyes broke down in tears while addressing the judge before sentencing, but the former chief executive of Brocade Communications Inc.will still face 21 months in prison and a $15 million fine. [more]
Board Directors Reap Big Rewards for Their Work: Board directors take home big bucks, according to this analysis by The Corporate Library. [more]
Accountant Convicted of Embezzling $1.8 Million: An Austrian court found an accountant guilty of channeling money from a respected human rights group to his own bank account, in part to finance his friend's gambling habit. [more]
Most Companies Lack Basics of Tax Risk Management: FIN 48 and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 have thrown a spotlight on tax issues, but most companies still lack a formal, documented tax management strategy. [more]
Cox Yields on SOX Delay for Small Biz: Bowing to pressure from the House Committee on Small Business, SEC chairman Christopher Cox has announced that he will propose yet another delay in the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404(b) for smaller public companies. [more]
Squelching Fraud: A Practical Guide: Here's a key resource for companies looking to create a best-in-class risk management strategy for fraud exposures. [more]
EU May Accept U.S. GAAP in 2008: Now that the SEC has dropped its requirement that foreign filers using IFRS reconcile to GAAP, the European Union should return the compliment, says EU commissioner Charlie McCreevy. [more]
A Gift of SOX: Better Boards: Corporate boards have changed markedly for the better in the five years since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed. [more]
Reconciliation Needed Through Convergence: Although it supports the convergence of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and US GAAP, the CFA Institute Centre for Financial Market Integrity warns that the 20F reconciliation requirement cannot be eliminated yet. [more]
Tax Reforms: A Win-Win: Companies can pay taxes with ease and governments can gain revenues with a broader tax base through tax reforms, according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers. [more]
IFRS: What You Need To Know: Now that the SEC has eliminated the requirement for foreign private issuers that use International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) to reconcile to GAAP, can an IFRS option for US corporations be far behind? [more]
Top 10 Strategic Risks for 2008: The biggest threat to global business next year? [more]
DOJ Easing Up On Corporate Fraud?: In July 2002, soon after the fall of Enron and Arthur Andersen LLP, President Bush created the Department of Justice's Corporate Fraud Task Force to combat wrongdoing in America's boardrooms. [more]
SOX Overhaul: A Dead Issue?: While most corporate finance executives have acclimated to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, hopes for a reform of the law's more draconian provisions have never quite faded. [more]
CFOs Speak Up for Roles and Revisions: The roles of CEO and chairman should be held by different individuals, according to 79 percent of CFOs and senior comptrollers who participated in a national survey by Grant Thornton LLP. [more]
CFOs at Odds with SEC on IFRS: More than 75 percent of CFOs and senior comptrollers believe today's accounting standards are too complicated, according to a national survey conducted by Grant Thornton LLP. [more]
Greener Regulation Expected: Senior executives expect to see more government regulation in the next five years, and 72 percent think environmental regulation should be mandated, according to a national survey by accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP. [more]