On his Jan. 9 OTC Insight hotline, Jim Collins observes that the three major indices and their exchange traded funds--Spiders, Diamonds and " the Qs " --have all gained as much in the first five trading days of 2006 as they did during all of last year.
Both Citi and Merrill have to file their quarterly reports, known as 10-Qs, with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the next week or so.
Warped or otherwise, I decided to give QS a three-month test drive, downloading Android apps and outfitting myself with devices to track my mood, sleep cycles, calories, location, spending and productivity.
Deloitte US could also, under this theory, presumably be held liable for false or misleading statements made in ChinaCast 10-Qs, even though typically there is no statement actually signed by an auditor for a 10Q.
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This period included two more 10-Qs.
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In spite of no legal requirement, EY and the other audit firms consented to inclusion of signed reports of their quarterly reviews (as opposed to an opinion which has a very strict definition in the standards and the law) in the 10-Qs of some other financial services firms.
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The China side of my brain was intrigued by a different dimension of the education issue when I picked up the Indian Express on September 10 and read a large article expressing concern over the just-released QS World University Rankings.
The Qs are trading near their ten-year high and looking good still.
Matt Symonds is co-founder and former director of the QS World MBA Tour and is author of ABC of Getting the MBA Admissions Edge.
Politicians in the Senedd generally mind their Ps and Qs during FMQs rather more so than those in Westminster during PMQs - if you get my drift.
Ben Sowter, from QS, says there is a "reasonably strong trend" of technology-based institutions moving up the world rankings.
The company has a longer reach than most QS device makers, having started in 1999 developing armbands for use in out-of-lab health studies.
Universities UK, which represents all UK universities, said it was difficult to compare international education systems - but other more established compilers of world rankings such as Times Higher, QS and Shanghai Jiaotong consistently rated the UK as second behind the United States.
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