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1/23/13 – Thomson Reuters News & Insight: Private Sector Gets Credit for Helping to Curb Options Backdating
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1/3/13 – Accounting Today: Study Finds Bias in Stock Analysts’ Rounded Forecasts
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12/28/12 – Wall Street Journal: How Investors Should Play Analysts' 2013 Stock Picks
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12/26/12 – Wall Street Journal: Analysts' Rounding Doesn't Always Square
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12/17/12 – CFO Magazine: All Eyes on Foreign Earnings
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11/30/12 – Harvard Business Review: Why Firms with Female Directors Make Fewer Financial Mistakes
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11/28/12 – Wall Street Journal: Maybe Math Isn't So Hard
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11/27/12 – Australian Financial Review: Diversity Works but Quotas Don’t
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11/15/12 – Accounting Web: Accounting Tool Keeps Billions in Profits Overseas
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11/14/12 – Accounting Today: Women on Corporate Boards Encourage Better Financial Reporting
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11/12/12 – CFO.com: Tax Incentive Helps Multinationals Pay 20% Less, Study Finds
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11/6/12 – Compliance Week: When Permanent Reinvestment Assertions Just Don't Hold Up
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11/5/12 – JDsupra.com: Study Shows IRS Audits Increase Business Compliance
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10/25/12 – Forbes.com:  Foreign Tax Reserves Are `Crack Cocaine' For Earnings Manipulation, Study Says
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10/12/12 – Accounting Today: Accounting Option Facilitates Multinational Earnings Manipulation
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10/10/12 – AllGov.com: Surprise! More IRS Auditing of Large Companies Results in More Taxes Paid
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9/27/12 – Reuters:  Corporate tax avoidance subsides when IRS audit threat increases, study finds
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9/21/12 – Thomson Reuter WG&L: IRS Audits May Boost Shareholder Returns
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9/12/12 – Accounting Today: IRS Audits Keep Companies Honest, Study Says
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8/28/12 – Compliance Week: SEC Director Blasts Those 'Perpetuating Revolving Door Myth'
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8/7/12 – Compliance Week: No Harm in SEC Lawyers Going to the Private Sector
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8/6/12 – Thomson Reuters News & Insight: New study says SEC revolving door not important. Don't believe it
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8/6/12 – New York Times: Study Questions Risk of S.E.C. Revolving Door
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8/1/12 – CPA Success: The Future of Accounting Education in 7 Easy Steps
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7/31/12 – Inside Higher Ed: Accounting for Innovation
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7/24/12 – Connecticut Post: UConn professor: high school accounting classes don't add up
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7/18/12 – Compliance Week: Study Puts Down Revolving Door Worry at SEC
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7/17/12 – Accounting Today: SEC Revolving Door Not a Problem, Study Finds
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7/9/12 – WashingtonPost.com: Study finds companies with Republican-leaning leaders pay more in taxes
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7/9/12 – Reuters: Study: Companies of Republican CEOs pay more tax than Democrats
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6/8/12 – Accountancy Age: Panned M&A deals causing restatements, study finds
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6/7/12 – Reuters: Bungled mergers could lead to restatements: study
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6/6/12 – Accounting Web: M&A: Restatements Likely with Mergers and Acquisitions<
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5/24/12   Reuters: Accounting Research Needs a Jolt – Waymire

5/24/12 – Accounting Today: Stock Declines after M&A Foreshadow Restatements
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4/29/12 – United Press International: Can we keep the Social Security and Medicare trust funds from going bust?
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4/25/12 – Accounting Today: Taxpayers May Accept Some Social Security Reforms
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4/16/12 – CFO.com: Apologizing for Bad News? Be Careful with the Video
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4/3/12 – Accounting Today: Study Questions Accounting for Asset Securitization
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3/21/12 – Harvard Business Review: The Daily Stat:If Your Company Goofs, Don't Make a Video About It
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3/5/12 – Accounting Today: Study Examines Use of Video for Financial Restatements
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3/4/12 – PCWorld: YouTube No Substitute to Press Release to Restate Earnings
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3/2/12 – CFO World: Need to Restate Earnings? Don’t Use YouTube
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2/16/12 – WebCPA: Study Backs Shareholder Ratification of Audit Firms
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2/16/12 – Accounting Web: Study Shows Benefits of Shareholder Involvement in Auditor Selection
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2/15/12 – IDG News Service: If Investors Vote on Auditors, Financials Are Higher Quality
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2/15/12 – CFOWorld: If Investors Vote on Auditors, Financials Are Higher Quality
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2/10/12 – Reuters: How to avoid a securities class action
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1/30/12 – CFO.com: Upbeat Words in Earnings Statements Can Get You Sued, Research Shows
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1/18/12 – Accounting Web: AAA Warns: Watch Your Language on Earnings Reports
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1/11/12 – CFOWorld: The Painful Price of Puffy CFO Projections
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1/10/12 – Accounting Today: Rosy Earnings Reports Spur Lawsuits
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12/15/11 – Huffington Post: Repatriation Tax Holiday: Companies Holding Nearly Half Of Untaxed Profits In The U.S.
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12/15/11 – AFL-CIO Now Blog: Past Tax Holiday Created Corporate Profits, Not Jobs
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12/13/11– WebCPA: Study Debunks Tax Repatriation Holiday Claims
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11/16/11 – CFOWorld: Using Bloated Stock for M&A Is Costly
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11/11/11 – WebCPA: Acquisitions Fuel Sharp Declines in Stock Prices
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11/4/11 – Reuters: Short wars and rain days
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10/20/11 – USA Today: Is Your Company in Trouble? Audit Fees Can be an Early Clue
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10/9/11 – Reuters: Corporate Audit Fees Up? Beware of Trouble Ahead
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10/6/11 – CFO.com: Can Audit Fees Reveal Share-Price Movements?
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10/1/11 – The Economist: The Trouble with Superheroes
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9/26/11 – WebCPA: High Audit Fees Precede Poor Company Performance
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8/6/11 – The Economist: Not so Fast: The risks posed by high-frequency trading
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8/8/11 – The Times-Picayune: Uptick in interest rates forecast; Local experts size up

7/27/11 – WebCPA: High Trading Volume Connected to Share Price Volatility
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6/29/11 – Forbes: Cash Doesn’t Lie
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6/6/11 – Financial Times: Academics need to get ‘down and dirty’
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6/3/11 – The Globe and Mail: How Was That Again? 
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6/3/11 – Reuters: Gobbledygook stumps financial professionals too
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6/2/11 – SimonCaulkin.com: Fog clouds corporate disclosure
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5/31/11 – WebCPA: Many SEC Filings are Hard for Even Stock Analysts to Decipher
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4/13/11 – Wall Street Journal Professional Edition: CFO Journal: In Defense of Buybacks
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4/12/11 – Stock Buybacks Benefit Both Investors and CEOs
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2/18/11 – USA Today: Pit stock analysts vs. short sellers for rich clues
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2/10/11 – Reuters: In placing stock bets, listen to the shorts: study
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2/9/11 – Reuters: Noncash Earnings Seen as Key to Stock Performance
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2/8/11 – Accounting Today: Accounting Student Improves Investment Strategy
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1/4/11 – Accounting Today: Investors Trust Dubious Sources for Stock News
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1/3/11 – Forbes.com: Investing Intelligently without Indulging your Impulses
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12/8/10 – Reuters: Small Banks' Accounting More Likely Suspect
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12/6/10 – Financial Times: Cheques and Balances
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12/1/10 – Fortune.com: It's Time to Reboot the Way We Do Business
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11/16/10 – Bureau of National Affairs: Corporate Accountability SOX 404 Compliance Is Proving BeneficialTo Small Cap Companies, Research Suggests
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11/15/10 – Accounting Today: Independent Boards Not All They're Cracked Up To Be
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10/28/10 – TheEconomist.com: Corporate Constitutions
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10/26/10 – Forbes.com: Why Negative Earnings Revisions Are More Suspicious Than Positive Ones
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10/23/10 – BoardMember.com: Do More Independent Board Hurt Stock Prices?
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10/22/2010 – WebCPA.com:  SOX 404 Reduces Financial Misstatements
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10/22/10 – CFO.com: Is Independence the Bane of Boards?
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10/2010 –Kiplinger.com Bad News on Earnings? Be More Skeptical
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10/13/2010 – WebCPA.com Independent Board Members Played Role in Financial Woes
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10/12/2010 – Pension & Benefits Daily (Bureau of National Affairs) Shareholders Are Prudent and Effective In Voting on Excess CEO Pay, Study Finds
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9/27/10 –Accounting Today: Pessimistic Forecasts Leave Bad Taste
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9/26/10 – Investment News: Is bad news bad or good?
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8/18/10 – WebCPA: Study Finds Investors Distrust Negative Forecasts
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8/9/10 – Agenda: Whistleblower Incentives Prompt Greater Board Diligence
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8/5/10 – Silicon India: Shareholder campaigns are limiting CEO pay
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5/7/10 – CFOZone.com: Girls, Girls, Girls!
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5/6/10 – Management Today UK: Women CFOs More Reliable?
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4/30/10 – The Economist Intelligence Unit: Now You Don’t See It
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4/22/10 – WebCPA: Managers Who Mislead Auditors Usually Succeed
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4/14/10 – CFO.com: Something to Like About Sarbox
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3/1/10 - CFO Magazine: Now You Don't See It
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3/2/10 – CFO.com: Founder CEO, Fired CFO?
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2/5/10 – CFOzone.com: Work for a founder? Watch your back
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1/6/10 – Investor's Business Daily: Cash Flow Has Won Admirers, But Forecasting It A Challenge

12/01/09
Bureau of National Affairs: "SERP Benefits Can Be Manipulated To Increase CEO Retirement, Study Finds"

10/21/09
Forbes.com: "Investors Beware: Retiring CEOs Hurt Share Prices"

10/21/09
Reuters: "CEO retirements can hurt stock prices – study"

10/22/09
The Globe and Mail: "Better profits, bigger pensions"

10/06/09
MANAGEMENT TODAY (UK): "Honesty is the worst policy for financial results"

09/24/09
No Plain Vanilla Please
Source: WebCPA — Tools and Resources for the Tax and Accounting Professional

9/27/09
AAA President Nancy Bagranoff offers her insights on a “Q&A: Expect International Accounting Standards by 2016” to The Virginian-Pilot. Click here to read to full story.

08/04/09
Accounting Education Appears to be Thriving
Source: WebCPA — Tools and Resources for the Tax and Accounting Professional

08/04/09
Tweedie Warns of 2011 Deadline for IFRS Choice
Source: WebCPA — Tools and Resources for the Tax and Accounting Professional

08/03/09
Barney Frank: "We Will Never Legislate Accounting"
Source: WebCPA — Tools and Resources for the Tax and Accounting Professional

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