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Today in Finance November 21, 2008

Accounting for Concern

Can auditors be sure a firm will survive the next 12 months?

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Find Out What You Missed

Didn't make it to CFO Rising West last month? Fortunately, our editors were there to ask speakers, top CFOs, and other experts how they are managing through the financial crisis, how they train their staffs, what their plans are for IFRS, and other questions you would have asked.

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CFOs React

Finance chiefs tell CFO.com what impact the financial crisis is having on their companies, their access to credit, and their cash management strategies.

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Features

  • Is the SEC Soft-Pedaling IFRS?

    Lame-duck Cox leaves FEI conference attendees wanting more guidance on conversion just days after the commission quietly published its roadmap for mandatory adoption. November 19, 2008

  • IFRS Requires a Soft Touch

    If American companies plan on moving to IFRS, their financial statement preparers will require less technical training and more instruction on "soft skills." November 17, 2008

  • G-20 Verdict on Fair Value: Innocent

    The world's top finance ministers say that excessive risk-taking and sloppy judgments caused the crisis. November 17, 2008

  • Wrinkles in the IFRS Roadmap

    The SEC wants some of the largest U.S. companies to adopt international rules early, but limitations and uncertainty in its plan could diminish those hopes. November 17, 2008

  • SEC: Early IFRS Adoption Will Cost Firms $32M

    The regulator releases its roadmap for transitioning U.S. companies to international accounting rules, and estimates the costs. November 17, 2008

  • S&P: Mortgage Securities Are Safer than Collateral

    The rating agency mounts a defense of the securitization of residential mortgage-backed securities. November 14, 2008

  • Seeking TARP Money, GMAC Aims to Be a Bank

    That would enable the company to apply for funds under the December 8 deadline for privately held banks. November 20, 2008

  • Does It Matter Which Company Is the "Acquirer"?

    Yes, for accounting purposes. But as illustrated in the CenturyTel – Embarq deal, the designation may be management's choice. November 18, 2008

  • Revised Fair-Value Rule Is Weaker: Moody's

    It's harder for investors to compare banks' financial statements now that IAS 39 lets them decide whether to reclassify "held for sale" assets as "held to maturity," the rating agency says. November 14, 2008

  • Cash Management: Banks Have Offer CFOs Can't Refuse

    Bankers are becoming a lot tougher with their clients about bundling transaction services with their loans, a financial-industry expert says. November 13, 2008

  • CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 21

    Virgin Mobile USA, VeraSun Energy, BRE Properties, American Media, Blue Spark Technologies, Strategic Oil & Gas, Frontier Oil, Becton Dickinson, Sunoco, Coop Sverige, Complinet, Beazley, Poyry, Oerlikon, Vernalis, Collins Stewart. November 20, 2008

  • Deals: Financials Get Serviced

    In our M&A Roundup for the week ended Nov. 16, six of ten deals involved banks or insurers — including a big Treasury infusion to AIG, and a small one to UCBH. "Regular" deals include Exelon's $12.6b purchase of NRG. November 17, 2008

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