#770: Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter

 

#646: GE Stock Rebounds as Investors Push Back

A whistleblower has accused GE of substantial irregularities, but many investors (including the GE CEO) are sticking by the stock and increasing their holdings. This Washington Post article may require you to register for free access to a limited number of articles each month. Here is the article.

#643: Cheesecake Factory and Others Warn of New Risk

Click to read how corporations are now addressing the risk of mass shooting incidents to their SEC regulatory risk disclosure filing.

#387: A Must See for Students Who Will Take Finance In the Future - Is the Stock Market Rigged?

#377: Tootsie Roll Guards Corporate Information

Many publicly traded companies court industry analysts and the public through disclosure over and above the minimum required by the SEC and GAAP. If Nancy Giles' reporting is accurate, that's not the case with Tootsie Roll. More importantly, I always thought they were chocolate!

#365: Twitter IPO

Link to this NPR story and audio to learn more about how Twitter's IPO will be a more traditional first day than the one Facebook experienced and how that isn't necessarily a good thing.

#360: New IRS Rule on Gratuities Will Change Withholding for Wait Staff

Should be interesting to see how this will play out in terms of automatic gratuitites. Click here to read the WSJ article.

#352: Accounting Standards for Small and Medium Sized Entities (SMEs)

This article from Bloomberg Business Week provides a good overview of the AICPA's proposal for SMEs.

#332: Facebook Paid No Taxes in 2012

So, how did that happen? It's an excellent example of how legal tax avoidance can minimize corporate income taxes, showing how employee stock options can be deductible to the corporation. Read the Huffington Post article here.

#279 Facebook IPO Falls Short

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Proving that not everything they do is golden, this video sums up how revisions on revenue estimates were only shared with Morgan Stanley's premiere clients and smacks of an unfair playing field.

#276: Apple Circumvents Taxes Legally

An interesting article from the New York Times via msnbc describes how Apple and other tech companies exploit our current tax code. Of particular note is how they avoid state income taxes. Someone (likely several someones) is very good at tax strategy for this company!

#247 So What Happened to That $1.2 Billion That's Missing From MF Global?

Click on the segment title to read the transcript or listen to the audio discussion of how forensic accounting can be used to detect whatever fraud may be involved in the $1.2 billion missing from Global Financial. Did I say there might be fraud involved? Ha!

#245 Prosecuting Wall Street

These two segments from 60 Minutes highlight the internal control requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act and management's responsibility for certifying that such controls are adequate. While that sounds good on paper, evidently it's not happening in actual practice as highlighted in the two segments which feature internal control failures at Countrywide and Citicorp with regard to the collapse of mortgage backed securities.

#234 - Jeffrey Immelt, Jobs Czar

#233 - Understanding Occupy Wall Street

Whether for or against, a good overview of this movement. Judge for yourself!

#192 New Tax Havens Allow Tax Avoidance

Tax avoidance, unlike tax evasion, isn't illegal. But, it's not good for the American tax base.

#187: Sir David Tweedie Talks U.S. Reluctance to Commit to IFRS

Short summary at http://goingconcern.com/2011/03/sir-david-tweedies-patience-is-wearing-thin/. More at http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/14562111.

#186 The Death of The Magnetic Stripe Credit Card

Interesting article about the next generation of electronic transaction processing.
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2011/03/the-death-of-the-credit-card-mag-stripe.html

#173 Ernst & Young Sued for Lehman Bros. Failure

The most recent "big" example of auditor responsibility for audit quality:

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#152 Court ruling will influence consumer goods pricing

From USA Today - "How you pay for stuff could soon determine how much you pay"
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/columnist/block/2010-10-12-yourmoney12_ST_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip