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While some of these firms are effective, by our definition of thought leadership, which includes monetization, the vast majority of accountants and accounting firms are not thought leaders.
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In 2010, a U.S. executive for Autonomy pointed out what he thought were problematic accounting practices to his superiors, say people briefed on the matter.
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Novy-Marx concludes with a thought experiment where he substitutes GASB accounting with an identical system where future liabilities are discounted at the muni rate (after all, the risk of non-payment to pensioners is no different, or in most case lower, than the risk to bondholders).
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Switching to business because of my early entrepreneurial success, I thought I would enjoy learning the skills of accounting, marketing, strategy and operations.
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Many accounting firms, of all sizes, try valiantly to become thought leaders.
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By becoming a thought leader, which for the greater majority of accounting firms is the optimal business development methodology, you can seriously super-charge your practice.
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Earlier this week there was some chatter about how the Energy Information Agency had discovered a flaw in its accounting of natural gas in the ground, and that potentially there could be a lot less than thought.
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However, that may not be the case if 200 or 2, 000 banks fail because most held mortgage-backed-securities they thought were safe because of their AAA ratings and because the strict application of mark to market accounting for those securities in a frozen market wiped out their capital on a massive scale.
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Unfortunately, the accounting problems were much worse (at least in complexity, and possibly in magnitude) than the board initially thought.
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The General Accounting Office said in a 2000 report that the result is that many investors don't give fees much thought and overpay, while funds don't compete much on fees.
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