Triangulating Law, Data & Ethics
The securities law blogosphere has been bubbling with speculation — since the April 15 oral arguments in Free Enterprise Fund, et al. v. PCAOB — over how the D.C. Circuit Court might rule in the case. It is possible that the PCAOB and SOX could disappear in a cloud of appellate ink before summer’s end. […]
The Bear Stearns collapse, like Enron and Worldcom before it, has prompted loud cries for more and better market regulation: Higher quality accounting standards! Better internal controls! More rigorous enforcement! But haven’t we been getting all this in an ever-rising spiral since 1934? The headline below captures the spirit of the times — New York […]
They say once you’ve seen sausage made, you’ll never eat it again. In this sense, sausage and accounting principles may have something in common. Since 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) have been jointly engaged in an effort to create an accounting version of what physicists might call […]
