#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!

#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.

#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.

#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.

#137 GM: The IPO

Nothing new after the 4 minute mark in this 5 minute video, but it does cover the essential details. Give some thought to how GM plans to raise $14-18 billion dollars by offering $200 million worth of stock. How does that happen?

#129 Whistleblowers Get a Raise

From the 8/2/10 issue of Business week, the SEC will now be eligible to make offers of up to 30% of fines to whistleblowers, as opposed to the previous limit of 10%.
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Re: #109 Is Goldman Sachs Being Scapegoated?

Now that the initial hoopla has started to settle, here's a more objective report:

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#110 Katie's Optimism

Katie's view that fraud by Goldman Sachs and others will be punished may be on the naive side - we'll see!
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