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• MARKET CHEERLEADERS LIVING IN FAIRYTOPIA

  
  THE MARK MARTINEZ SHOW: Talk Radio for Liberals and Real Conservatives — Authority: 126
  Back in March I got into a rather interesting e-mail discussion with one of the economists at Merrill Lynch (in New York). It came after I read one of their monthly newsletters, where the authors presented the world with what they thought was sound market analysis. It was garbage, and I let them know .   Well, hang ...
  6 days ago

• CPBs turnaround expert

  
  Biz Bites| Biz Bites blog, honoluluadvertiser.com | Honolulu, Hawaii — Authority: 120
  Central Pacific Bank has a lot riding on an independent appraisal by a New York turnaround expert. The states third largest financial institution, reeling from problem commercial loans in California, recently hired Alvarez & Marsal to conducted an outside review of its loan portfolio. The review comes as the ...
  6 days ago

• FASB Chairman: Fair Value Not Cause of Crisis; Separate Banking Regulation from Accounting

  
  Accounting Principles — Authority: 111
  Journal of Accountancy is monitoring the AICPA SEC PCAOB conference this week. They report here on a speech by FASB Chairman Robert Herz on Tuesday that addressed head on criticism of the role of accounting standards in the financial crisis and called for GAAP to be “decoupled” from bank regulation. Herz, ...
  1 week ago

• Two Sets of Books Require Two Sets of Accounting Standards

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 434
  What was at the core of the current economic crisis? The financial transactions embedded in the SIVs (structured investment vehicles) located off-balance sheet within our major financial institutions brought our country to its knees. As the securities housed in these SIVs plunged in value, Uncle Sam was forced to ...
  1 week ago

• Alternative to fair value: Pure comedy?

  
  CPA Success — Authority: 490
  I just couldnt resist this one. Courtesy of Robert Jensen on the CPAs-L Listserve (and if youre not subscribing to that list yet, you should be , in my humble opinion), heres "Mark to Market," a YouTube song / video from Merle Hazard , a satirical country singer whos been known to croon about the credit crisis. ...
  1 week ago

• Accounting Bonanza

  
  de minimis — Authority: 416
  The next 3 years will be a bonanza for the accounting fraternity. First, the fair value accounting regime under FRS 139 will come into force on 1st January 2010. Lots of additional compliance work there. Second, in the next following year GST is expected to come onstream. So, 2010 will be a frenetic year with ...
  2 weeks ago

• What do the world’s largest lending institutions and six TM Forum Members have in common?

  
  TM Forum Online Community — Authority: 126
  The abfjournal recently listed the top 50 equipment leasing & financing companies by both portfolio size and by volume.  I must admit I was a bit surprised to see that alongside the names of GE Capital, Banc of America, and Royal Bank of Scotland, were the names of six (6) of the TM Forum’s 700+ members.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Former FDIC Chairman Slams Handling of Financial Crisis (And Predictably Blames the Accounting)

  
  Jr Deputy Accountant — Authority: 143
  Weve seen Bill Isaac before. Hes the former FDIC chair who taught me that the "fund" is little more than a Treasury cookie jar for things like tanks and big shiny guns. See also my December 12, 2008 The Fictional Accounting of the FDIC for more on that particular point. Anyway. Greenspan has thrown a few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bankrupt Banks Bite Balls

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 165
  bankrupt banks bite balls- full of air- gnawing, repeatedly deflating bubbles- leaving marks marking to market to make profits appear from nowhere- broke down, in the red- financial read more
  3 weeks ago

• Guest Post: Americas Stealth Stimulus Plan: Allowing its Home "Owners" to be Deadbeats

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 742
  Submitted by TraderMark of Fund My Mutual Fund I was looking through the avalanche of economic data today, and it struck me how once again Americans are spending well over their income growth. I thought to myself, well part of this are all the programs where the American government is subsidizing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Paul Volcker on the FASB Override Button... And Who Needs a Button When You Have a Baseball Bat?

  
  Jr Deputy Accountant — Authority: 143
  pic credit: to dry for (um yeah) I guess Paul Volcker isnt that evil after all. Well sort of. NYT : A proposal to give banking regulators authority to block accounting standards is “a terrible idea,” Paul A. Volcker, a former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, said Monday. Mr. Volcker has been an ...
  4 weeks ago

• Politics and Accounting: EU Delays Adoption of Fair Value Accounting Rule Changes

  
  Accounting Principles — Authority: 111
  Politicians in the European Union have held up a radical overhaul of accounting rules for banks and insurers which came into force yesterday across most of the non-U.S. accounting world. Politics comes to the fore in this as the rules have been postponed at a time when the commission itself is a lame duck because ...
  4 weeks ago

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