Board Pay: Five Hot Trends
Rhoda Edelman, of Pearl Meyer and Partners, a New York-based consultancy specializing in board pay, identifies five hot trends in director compensation ba... Read story
Financial Accounting Standards Board
Special "gaap" For Small Business
Small businesses have complained for years that the financial reporting standards used in this country, which were developed and refined with large, publi... Read story
Accounting Standards, Financial Accounting Standards Board. Fasb/ Mcgraw-hill, 1221 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, Ny10020; Two Paperback Volumes: 2,048 Pp. And 1,936 Pp., $22.50 And $24.50.
Volume I, Original Pronouncements, contains all FASB rules re garding audited financial reports, whether superseded or not, and the reasoning behind the r... Read story
Cash Flow Statement
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Financial Statements
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Out Of Stock
Three years ago, top executives at cash-hungry West Coast companies thought they had found the perfect device for luring and locking up key employees with... Read story
Banking;
If the local economy is depressed and you're struggling to meet your loan payments, take heart. A little-known accounting standard called FASB 15 may be ... Read story
Stock Option Expensing Sparks National Debate
May 2004 --A proposal introduced by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) on March 31 has met with a great deal of opposition, p... Read story
House Votes to Limit Option Expensing
July 22, 2004 -- In a victory for start-ups that offer employee stock options in lieu of pay, the House of Representatives overwhelming v... Read story
FASB Limits Stock Options
What new stock option rules mean for you. Read story
Cash Flow Statement
A breakdown of the cash flow statement, and methods for simplifying the procedure. Read story
The Wrong Remedy
Perloff Bros. Inc., a Philadelphia-based wholesaler of Tartan Foods, wanted to expand and had found just the way to do it. A small wholesale grocer in ups... Read story
Dwindling Options;
IN APRIL, VICOM SYSTEMS INC. extended its stock option plan to include about half of its 75 employees. The company never dreamed that a change in account... Read story
Taking Stock
A new rule is forcing business owners to think twice about stock options. Read story
Accounting
Related Terms: Certified Public... Read story
Coming To Terms With Accountants
Like most specialists, accountants have their own set of acronyms and terms. Here is a glossary of the accounting profession's most common ones. Big... Read story
The Accounting Profession Vs. The Sec: When Is A Loan Not A Loan?
The proposed public offering of Hadron Inc. (see story) is not the only research and development limited partnership awaiting a decision from the Securiti... Read story
New Ways to Retain and Reward Employees (Hint: We're Not Talking Stock Options)
In the wake of media reports about abuse of stock options, some technology firms are rethinking the incentives they use to compensate valuable employees. Mea... Read story
Income Statements
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Auditing The Accounting Article
I question the extraordinary emphasis given to a remark attributed to Richard Thalheimer, president of the Sharper Image. " 'I walked into Price Waterhous... Read story
The Art of Unhatched-Chicken Accounting
The top four banks have taken significant charges for impairment of their mortgage-servicing rights. The bottom three have not. Countrywide ... Read story
It May Pay to Lease Your Desktops
A look at long-term computer leasing deals offered by six mail-order houses. Read story
Small Businesses Looking for Bigger Say with FASB
May 27, 2004 --Since the collapses of the likes of Enron and WorldCom and the introduction of the Sarbanes-Oxley governance laws in 2002, ... Read story
Motherhood, Apple Pie
Although stock options are widely used to attract quality employees, they can have negative effects on your company if employees misunderstand them of if the... Read story
SEC Head Nominee Would Back Options Expensing
Aug. 1, 2005 --As the Senate prepares to vote on the approval of Christopher Cox as the new chief of the Securities and Exchange Commissio... Read story
SEC Head Nominee Would Back Options Expensing
Aug. 1, 2005 --As the Senate prepares to vote on the approval of Christopher Cox as the new chief of the Securities and Exchange Commissio... Read story
SEC Acts to Curb Cash Flow Shenanigans
Once thought to be rock-solid, cash flow statements deserve a second look, a new study finds. Read story
Pro Forma Statements
Pro forma , a Latin term meaning "as a matter of form," is applied to the process of presenting financial projections for a specific time period i... Read story
Depreciation
"Depreciation" literally means the lowering of the value of something—and specifically of fixed or capital assets. In accounting terminology the word re... Read story
Beyond The Paycheck: Compensating For Growth
All but three of America's 100 fastest-growing public companies offer long-term incentive compensation to executives. Stock options are the norm, with a few ... Read story
Money in, Money Out
How to time cash flow to make the most of the cash in your company - both your own and other people's. Read story
Economic Forecaster Stanley Salvigsen
Interview with economic forecaster who advises on reducing debt to prepare for hard times ahead. Read story
Can I Have a Raise?
From profit sharing to "phantom" stock plans, innovative CEOs and managers are experimenting with new compensation techniques. Read story
This month's feedback. Read story
Zero Zero Hour
The year 2000 bug will affect your computers no matter how small your business is. A look at some methods for testing your systems and the costs you can expe... Read story
Audits, Internal
Related Terms: Accounting Methods Intern... Read story
The Boom in Employee Ownership
Inc. gets the scoop on the effects of stock options from Corey Rosen, cofounder of the National Center for Employee Ownership. Read story
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