Fair value will be full implemented at the end of this year, impacting fully the first quarter next year.  Fair value is part of the change of financial reporting from ...

Changing accounting standards requiring corporate reporting on “assets and liabilities with uncertainties” – such as lawsuits – clearly is a concern of many of the nati ...

A case from federal court in Wisconsin, involving starkly different approaches to valuing damages in a contract dispute, stresses the importance of independent verific ...

Financial and corporate crises bring regulation; the bigger the crisis, the more the regulation.   A few years ago, major corporations, particularly Enron and Worl ...

It seems as if banks cannot get out of the news.  First, there is the ongoing financial meltdown, which involves banks and bank groups as culprits in packaging and selling asset-backed securities and otherwise making imprudent credit decisions.&nb ...

As someone who has built a successful law blog and who has been blogging daily for more than two years, I’ve been asked to write a series of posts talking about how to blog, what to do and what not t ...