Congress became involved in accounting issues again during the savings-and-loan crisis of the late 1980s.
When a company without accounting issues lists, there is pent-up demand and people will buy it.
Some were self-induced, like accounting issues that attracted the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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There are plenty of other cases where politicians have dabbled in accounting issues.
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Finally, Einhorn picks up on some of the accounting issues that the Musketeers discussed earlier this year.
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Note that that statement is made without even the slightest hint that there are the above accounting issues.
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Huabao was one of several Chinese companies singled out by short sellers over the past year for accounting issues.
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Audit Committee members also enjoy ongoing, free, customized training from their auditor on technical accounting issues relevant to their company.
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His supposed offenses related to arcane accounting issues involving sums of money that, in a giant AIG's size, were comparatively small.
For one thing, the fact that the value of CVRs is largely dependent on future events presents challenging taxation and accounting issues.
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He downgraded Elan on Jan. 30 because of concerns about the fundamentals of the business and the increased awareness of accounting issues.
Mr. Schultz, H-P's general counsel, said H-P was shown "significant documentation from former Autonomy executives refuting the allegations" of any accounting issues.
Kellogg bought the business, after a previous deal with Diamond Foods collapsed in the midst of accounting issues at that company.
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The Policy and Resources Committee said the bus inquiry will delve into legal and accounting issues, and both will be expensive to investigate.
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Those challenges include paying employees, paying back bank loans, meeting deadlines, and making sure that all the legal and accounting issues are taken care of.
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But other analysts were wary because the draft lacked detailed instructions on bank reform, tax and accounting issues, and on how bad loans would be reduced.
The numbers in the information given out about the NCAA report are a bit sketchy, and no doubt there are accounting issues in assessing revenues and expenditures.
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Tuzman, who stepped down as CEO of the company earlier this year, asserts in his own announcement that KIT Digital is basically scapegoating him for the accounting issues.
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At the time, one of these people said, H-P was looking for a way to unwind the deal before it closed, but couldn't find any material accounting issues.
That's because the accounting issues are so inherently technical.
The deal will lift GMAC's ratings above parent GM's, which have been sinking deeper into junk territory in light of ongoing accounting issues and the possible hit from labor unrest at Delphi.
Revenue recognition fraud has been called one of the major accounting issues in the U.S. The SEC has filed recent civil actions alleging it against ex-officials of publicly traded Qwest Communications and Homestore.
The short sellers moved in and with their success in uncovering a number of transparency and accounting issues at these reverse mergers, were able to drive down the prices of quite good companies with no problems, reasoned Williams.
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"Despite the substantive accounting issues as to whether companies end up paying twice, we believe that in today's market climate, it is in the best interest of our shareholders to expense the options AIG grants going forward, " Greenberg said in a prepared statement.
Time after time in my discussions with European Union officials on accounting issues relating to country by country reporting and the need for multinational corporations to be accountable to people in all the states in which they operate, these officials, whose support for IFRS brought this whole edifice to worldwide prominence, indicate that their support for it is wearing thin.
Speaking on CNN Friday morning, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao said the president had appointed a separate task force to review the accounting standards issues.
The basic questions Muddy Waters raises will be answered when Deloitte (a top tier accounting firm) issues its audit results.
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"Despite action by the department to improve its asset management and accounting, the issues I have identified are systemic and deep-rooted, " Mr Morse said.
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Getting institutional investors to come to the roadshows of Chinese companies looking to list in the U.S. is just one of the problems in the wake of the scandals over accounting and transparency issues highlighted by Longtop and Muddy Water.
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which issues fatwas concerning accounting rules for corporations, has formally recommended that stock options be expensed as soon as they are granted.
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