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1. INTRODUCTION
In recent years, several high-profile financial scandals involving Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom and other major U.S. corporation...
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Note: All clarified Statements on Auditing Standards (SASs) will have the same effective date. Upon the issuance of all clarified SASs, one SAS will b...
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Operating profit of SEK 111.9 m
HUDDINGE, Sweden -- Regulatory News:
Today, Medivir AB (OMX: MVIR), a research-based specialty pharmaceutical compan...
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Pending litigation can be a significant source of potential liability for public companies. The lack of adequate disclosure of this potential liability has caused confusion for investors, lenders, and other financial statement users. Auditors are required to assess the appropriateness of financial statement disclosures regarding pending litigation. However, the auditor's ability to do so depends upon receiving information from the company's attorneys. As independent auditors, Certified Public Accountants express their opinion regarding the reliability and integrity of a publicly traded company's financial statements based upon their examination and testing of the company's books and records. The authors' recommendation is that the auditor should consider limiting the scope of the audit ...
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(Supersedes Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 1 section 543, Part of Audit Performed by Other Independent Auditors [AICPA, Professional Standa...
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WEDEMARK, Germany, June 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG published its financial statement for the business year 2010, reporting an increased turnover of 468.2 million Euros, compared to 389.9 million Euros last year. This corresponds to an increase of 20.1 percent and is the largest turnover in the company's history. Profit increased from 3.8 million Euros (in 2009) to 22.6 million Euros.
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There is much discussion in the accounting profession regarding the complexity of current accounting rules. The SEC just established an advisory committee to reduce unnecessary complexity (Release 33-8817, Jun 27, 2007). There are several reasons why the profession should be worried about excessively long financial statement disclosures: 1. the length of the reports turns off reasonable readers, 2. important information is hidden, and 3. the expense is excessive for the result. Today there is no constituency for reducing disclosure. The solutions, first, accounting professionals need to readdress the concept of materiality. Next, they need "sunset" rules on disclosures. Interestingly enough, published reports that are "homegrown" and not simply a mechanical copy of the required 10-K do ...