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Antipathy Towards Mark-to-Market Accounting is Misguided

Raymond Niles | 6 November 2008
The antipathy towards mark-to-market accounting is misguided.

The Government's Accounting Shell Game

Edwin Feulner | 31 January 2004
When the executives at Enron did something shady, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley bill. Today, a senior partner at an accounting firm would be arrested if he tried to boost stock prices with bookkeeping tricks. Yet, Congress itself is playing accounting games, pretending the money they are spending has appeared out of nowhere.

The Real Accounting Problem in America

Edwin Feulner | 11 October 2002
While the politicians are on their soapboxes calling for "corporate accountability," how about some real "government accountability"?

Stupid Accounting Tricks: Pro Forma Accounting, Part 3

Alan Luber | 18 December 2001
In my opinion, the single biggest folly in pro forma accounting is that of ignoring restructuring charges

Stupid Accounting Tricks: Managing Earnings, Part 2

Alan Luber | 17 December 2001
I received so much feedback on my column (Stupid Accounting Tricks) that I thought I would respond en masse today and elaborate a bit on the subjects of pro forma accounting and managing earnings.

Stupid Accounting Tricks: Extreme and Foundry By the Real Numbers

Alan Luber | 15 December 2001
Remember back in high school algebra when you were first introduced to the concept of imaginary numbers? That's a good way to describe quarterly earnings reports these days -- as imaginary numbers.

Fun with Accounting: How the IMF avoids admitting that it regularly makes bad loans financed by US taxpayers

Andrew West | 12 November 1998
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), while criticizing the accounting methods of various organizations around the world (e.g. Russian and Indonesian banks), has been having a bit of fun with its own creative accounting recently.
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