Your five-year return-on-equity figure for HSBC is based on U.K. accounting standards, which are not comparable to the U.S. accounting standards used by Citigroup.
Mexico is the third largest trade partner of the U.S., accounting for 12.9% of the total U.S. trade in 2012.
McDonough, a former executive of First Chicago, did a 10-year stint as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before becoming the first chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a U.S. regulatory entity overseeing the accounting profession, in 2003.
McDonough, a former executive of First Chicago, did a 10-year stint as head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (nyse: BK - news - people ) before becoming the first chairman of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a U.S. regulatory entity overseeing the accounting profession, in 2003.
The PCAOB, the regulator for the U.S. accounting industry, has taken note of this anomaly.
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Regulators have said that they want to eliminate by 2009 the need for foreign firms to reconcile their accounting with U.S. policies.
Regulators want to eliminate the costly requirement that foreign companies listing their shares on American markets reconcile their financial statements with U.S. accounting guidelines.
In the 1990s they expanded by doing larger software projects and by taking over whole IT systems and back-office functions such as accounting for U.S. and European corporations.
Sageworks asked U.S. accounting firms to assess the hiring outlook based on their conversations with business clients and found that more accountants expect hiring than firing in the year ahead.
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It is only one of nine accounting firms in the U.S. that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires to be inspected annually by the PCAOB (Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) because the firm audits over 100 companies that are traded on stock exchanges here in the United States (18 of them Chinese).
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First, the U.S. General Accounting Office is reviewing the legal authority underlying the establishment of ICANN by the Clinton administration.
In 2009, Scott Sullivan, former CFO of WorldCom and maestro of the largest accounting fraud in U.S. history, was released.
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That's when the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is expected to let companies that acquire others expense the goodwill, rather than amortize it.
The financial services sector is huge in the U.K., accounting for roughly one in 30 jobs and around 10.1% of gross domestic product in 2007.
U.S. cities lose one-fifth of their water to leaks and suffer 1.2 trillion gallons of wastewater spills each year, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office.
At least one year before the H-P acquisition, an Autonomy executive brought concerns about the company's accounting practices to U.S. regulators including the SEC, according to people familiar with the matter.
In India, Ward particularly likes software firms, which are globally competitive and typically use U.S. GAAP accounting, and consumer-goods distribution companies, many of which are locally listed subsidiaries of shareholder-friendly multinationals.
On Tuesday, the SEC hosts a long-planned forum to discuss its "road map" for the convergence of U.S. and international accounting standards.
At stake are trades in eurodollar futures--bets on short-term interest rates affecting American dollar deposits outside the U.S.--accounting for 53% of the Merc's overall volume.
She called for a convergence of U.S. and international accounting standards.
There have been recent news reports of a number of China-based companies that have not been able to IPO in the U.S. due to accounting problems.
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And in the U.S. the Financial Accounting Standards Board is working on rules that would require companies to disclose information that could be helpful in appraising a range of intangibles.
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.
Andrew Smithers, a London-based economist, put out a report late last year indicating that if Japanese life insurers were held to U.S. or British accounting standards, their collective liabilities would exceed their assets.
Benn Steil, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, notes companies that list in New York, in aggregate, pay millions of dollars a year to meet U.S. legal and accounting rules and exchange fees.
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The prospects and desirability of convergence between U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) have been much debated, but the SEC has not yet decided whether and how to proceed.
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In recent years, there has been concern that foreign investment in the United States is waning, partially from protectionist sentiment and partially from changes in U.S. regulations and accounting procedures that might induce foreign firms to set up operations in other countries.
The following tables include information about non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP net income, and non-GAAP earnings per share (collectively, the "non-GAAP financial measures"), which are not measurements of financial performance prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
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