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Zynga’s IPO hiccup: why they got it right in the end

We tend to assume the worst when we hear the words “material weakness,” and for public companies required to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, it’s certainly not good news. But in terms of Zynga’s hiccup last week, in which the social media company restated revenues during its IPO filing process, it’s not as bad as […]

A mismatched set of semi-global accounting standards—was that our goal?

Conceptually, a single set of high-quality global accounting standards sounds great: every company in every country follows the same rules and reports financial information in the same light. And with a growing number of countries adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), it’s no wonder that IFRS is touted as “the” set of standards that can […]