Why Every Auditor Should Study Shenanigans
An Interview with Howard Schilit Howard Schilit is America’s foremost scholar of the accounting tricks that public companies use to make their financial performance appear more enticing...
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Jim Chanos Isn’t Short on Ideas: How a Famed Investor Sniffs Out Financial Fraud
More than eight years into the current stock market rally, professional equity bears have become an endangered species on Wall Street. And yet when I had the chance to sit down with famed...
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Reading Tea Among the China Watchers
Following the Party Congress, Is China on Path to Global Ascendancy or a Nasty Bust?
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How to Fail at Business Development
And Drive Any Professional Services Firm Into the Ground
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How to Deal with an Accounting Crisis
Over the past twelve months, accounting scandals have tarnished some of the most illustrious corporate names and embarrassed some of the putatively smartest investors on Wall Street.
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New SEC Rule Allows All Companies to File Confidentially for IPOs
Effective July 10, 2017, the Securities & Exchange Commission ("SEC") began allowing all companies to submit non-public, draft registration statements for initial public offerings ("IPOs")....
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SEC Steps Up Cooperation with HK SFC — Hong Kong in the Sights of U.S. Short-Selling Funds
Back in January of 2017, the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) announceda significant expansion of its cooperation frameworkwith Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC),...
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Looming Demographic Crisis Will Fuel Boom in China Healthcare M&A
By Drew Bernstein In 2016 China emerged as the world’s most active player in cross-border M&A, with $225.4 billion of outbound deals, more than doubling the prior record of $102 billion in...
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Five Keys to Attracting Chinese Financing
By Drew Bernstein As China steps up as a major deal player, companies and advisers need to be able to view the world through Chinese eyes In just the past few years China has gone from the...
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