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• Duff & Phelps Risk Premium Report Facilitates Risk Assessment, Cost of Capital Estimates.

NEW YORK -- Duff & Phelps Corporation (NYSE: DUF), a leading independent financial advisory and investment banking firm, has published the Duff & Phel...

• Business Wire
• April 06, 2010

• The Effect of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 On the Cost of Equity Capital

This study examines how the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) affects financial information quality, as reflected in firms' cost of equity capital. We argue that the passage of PSLRA influences the incentives of those involved in the financial reporting process which in turn affects the firms' financial reporting quality. PSLRA replaced joint and several liability with proportionate liability, providing auditing firms with significant relief from litigation. We contend that the reduction in litigation risk for auditors decreased audit quality. PSLRA also made it more difficult for investors to sue firms for fraud which we argue reduces incentives of managers to report information truthfully. Using the cost of equity capital to proxy for financial information quality, we f...

• Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting; QJFA
• Vol. 48 Nbr. 2, April 2009

• Fitch Report: EEI 2008 Wrap-Up: Cost of Capital Rising.

NEW YORK -- Today Fitch Ratings issued a special report summarizing themes that emerged from the assembly of investor-owned electric utilities, power ...

• Business Wire
• November 17, 2008

• Verizon Communications Inc. v. FCC, 535 U.S. 467 (2002)

... rates" must, inter alia, be "based on the cost (determined without reference to a rate-of-return ...Regulations appended to the FCC's First Report and Order under the Act provide, among other thing...-service method did not stand for all past capital expenditures, but at most for those that were prud...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Big Blue On Target to Fulfill Promises

IBM's report to state of Iowa - Total project cost: $93.2 million - Capital investment (taken from total project cost): $6.5 million - Local government funding spent as of June 30: $26.1 million - IDED amount spent as of June 30: $11.7 million - Private amount spent as of June 30: $41.6 million Iowa Department of Economic Development The Dubuque community has already felt the impact of IBM employment as the company moves toward its promised goal of 1,300 jobs. A state employment report released Thursday shows the city saw an increase of 1,800 jobs from January 2010 to January this year. IBM's global delivery services center had a good deal to do with that jump.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• March 14, 2011

• Medicare Program:

... payment systems (IPPS) for operating and capital-related costs of acute care hospitals to implement..., (410) 786-2261, Inpatient Quality Reporting--Program. Administration, Validation, and Reconsid...

• FR, August 18, 2011
• Rules
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

• Keep Door Open

The cost of moving up is going up, rapidly. A report released this week by the College Board showed the cost of obtaining a college education had jumped more than the inflation rate for the second year in a row.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• October 31, 2007

• Briefly

Local: Academic report could cost KU scholarships Kansas is one of eight schools nationally that will appeal its Academic Progress Report, which the NCAA is releasing on Wednesday. None of KU's numbers will be made public, though athletic officials acknowledged Monday that football and baseball are in jeopardy of losing scholarships based on unsatisfactory rates.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• March 17, 2006

• Environmental disclosure, firm performance, and firm characteristics: an analysis of S&P 100 firms.

... Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report in 2004 which point out that Securities and Exchan...Environmental disclosure comes with a cost. It requires both financial and human resources to... public image in order to secure more capital from the market. However, in the meantime, large, ...

• Journal of Academy of Business and Economics
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 4, June 2010

• Consolidation and Competition in Public Accounting

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOA) charged the General Accounting Office (GAO, which changed its name to the Government Accountability Office in 2004) with examining the factors underlying audit mergers in the 1980s and 1990s, and the effects of such consolidation on competition, cost, quality, and independence in auditing, as well as on capital formation and the obstacles facing smaller audit firms in attempting to compete with the Big Four (Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche, KPMG, and PricewaterhouseCoopers). The GAO released its report, "Public Accounting Firms: Mandated Study on Consolidation and Competition,"July 2003, on the first anniversary of the SOA. The GAO did not perceive a problem with today's marketplace, where only four major accounting firms remain worldwide. f...

• CPA Journal, The
• Vol. 75 Nbr. 6, June 2005