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Features : IAS 39 Raises Accounting Row
Its a little bundle of letters and numbers, but its creating an awfully big stink. Those who set accounting standards...
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Features : Mergers Make Slow Comeback
Caution is the watchword in a sluggish market for corporate takeovers. Throughout last year, observers of international M&A; predicted a...
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Features : The Man Who Wired Russia
A Russian programmer spotted a gaping hole in the market. First, lets get the clichs out of the way. Anatoly...
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Milestones : Accounting Board Puts Options Expensing On Front Burner
UNITED STATES Mandatory expensingusing flawed valuation modelswill lead to inaccurate and misleading information for investors. Ken Wasch, SIIA The norwalk,...
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Milestones : Dubai Drags
DUBAI Which are braverbankers or rugby players? The planners behind the Dubai International Financial Center (DIFC) must hope the former....
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Milestones : Nasdaq’s Cold Welcome
GERMANY Almost all stock exchanges are currently listless, but few are listingless. On March 21, however, Nasdaq Deutschland was launched...
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Milestones : Rich Pickings
UNITED KINGDOM Troubled UK telecoms group Marconi had its long-term credit rating cut to D in March, warned that its...
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Newsmakers : Bad Timing
TURKEY Whos afraid of war? Certainly not the 200 brave souls who packed into the Hilton Hotel in Istanbul to...
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Newsmakers : Norwegian Cuckoo
NORWAY The sizes of our stakes in global companies have increased, and so we will gain from being more active....
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Newsmakers : Oxley Back In The News
UNITED STATES No one can accuse Representative Michael Oxley, the Ohio Republican of Sarbanes- Oxley fame, of shunning the media...
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Newsmakers : Singapore Sling
SINGAPORE Whether theyre jumping or being pushed, a steady stream of executives are leaving their posts at Singapore Inc. Most...
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Cover Story : Accounting Giants Recover Poise After Regulatory Onslaught
A multi-billion-dollar industry faces evolution, not revolution, after 18 months of turmoil. For a whilejust a whileback then, it looked...