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1. Principles vs rules: true and fair view and IFRSS

Author

Dean, Graeme and Clarke, Frank

Subjects
International finance -- Laws, regulations and rules, Financial analysis -- Standards, Government regulation, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business
Published
2004

3. On economic reality, representational faithfulness and the 'true and fair override'

Author

Alexander, David and Archer, Simon

Subjects
Financial analysis -- Standards, Financial analysis -- Research, Accounting -- Standards, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business
Abstract

The authors argue that the concept of 'representational faithfulness' with regards to financial reporting must rely upon standards.

Published
2003

4. Financial websites as financial advisors: comparing returns on equity found on the Internet

Author

Hammen, Jack, Beneda, Nancy, and Wilde, Harold

Subjects
Financial analysis -- Standards, Financial statements -- Usage -- Evaluation, Web sites -- Evaluation, Valuation -- Methods, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Web site/Web page development, Company Web site/Web page, Standards, Evaluation, Usage, Methods
Abstract

Return on equity (ROE) provides a useful indication of how well managers are employing the funds invested by the firm's shareholders to generate returns. Recent research suggests that in the [...]

Published
2004

6. Multi-ties courting IFAs with cash deals

Subjects
United Kingdom. Financial Services Authority -- Management, Financial analysis -- Standards, Accounting firms -- Laws, regulations and rules, Accounting firms -- Human resource management, Accountants -- Recruiting, Company personnel management, Industry hiring, Company business management, Government regulation, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Business, international
Abstract

MULTI-TIES IFAs are being offered cash as a lure to operate from a multi-tied panel. These golden handshake offers can result in advisers receiving up to AGBP25,000 to join a [...]

Published
2007

7. THE MYTH OF INDEPENDENCE; Unbiased research? It's more elusive than you think

Author

Vickers, Marcia

Subjects
Company financing, American Eagle Outfitters Inc. -- Finance, Center for Financial Research and Analysis Inc. -- Services, Center for Financial Research and Analysis Inc. -- Standards, Clothing stores -- Finance, Financial analysis -- Standards, Financial analysts -- Services, Financial analysts -- Standards
Published
2003

8. A LONG CLIMB OUT OF A DEEP RUT

Subjects
CA Inc. -- Finance, Computer software industry -- Finance, Financial analysis -- Standards
Published
2002

9. Behind the Velvet Rope

Author

Schoenberger, Chana R.

Subjects
Periodical publishing -- Standards, Publishing industry -- Standards, Periodicals -- Standards, Financial analysis -- Standards, Stock price indexes, Standard & Poor's Corp. -- Management
Published
2001

10. ON THE FIRING LINE AT QWEST

Subjects
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. -- Standards, Qwest Communications International Inc. -- Accounting and auditing, Financial analysis -- Standards, Accounting -- Standards, Securities industry -- Standards, Telecommunications services industry -- Accounting and auditing, Securities dealers -- Standards
Published
2001

11. Interaction Between Value Line's Timeliness and Safety Ranks

Author

WAGGLE, DOUG, AGRRAWAL, PANKAJ, and Johnson, Don, American actor

Subjects
Value Line Inc. -- Management, Securities industry -- Management, Risk assessment -- Research, Securities -- Evaluation, Investment companies -- Management, Econometrics -- Research, Portfolio management -- Research, Investment advisers -- Management, Periodical publishing -- Management, Commercial statistics -- Research, Financial analysis -- Standards, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Economics
Abstract

The Value Line Investment Survey is one of the most well-known and most widely used sources of financial information and investment advice for individual investors. Value Line has managed to [...]

Published
2001

12. Morningstar's Classification of Large-Cap Mutual Funds

Author

HASLEM, JOHN A. and SCHERAGA, CARL A.

Subjects
Morningstar Inc. -- Standards, Securities industry -- Management, Risk assessment -- Usage, Securities -- Evaluation, Econometrics -- Research, Portfolio management -- Research, Investment advisers -- Management, Mutual funds -- Evaluation, Mutual fund industry -- Analysis, Financial analysis -- Standards, Periodical publishing -- Standards, Financial services industry -- Terminology, Publishing industry -- Standards, Statistics -- Research, Commercial statistics -- Measurement, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Economics
Abstract

Morningstar is an important source of mutual fund information, data, and evaluation for the investment community. We would like to be sure its approach to such issues as a fund's [...]

Published
2001

13. S.&P. Bond Deals Are on the Rise Since It Relaxed Rating Criteria

Author

Popper, Nathaniel

Subjects
Standard & Poor's Corp. -- Standards -- Services, Financial analysis -- Standards, Computer services industry -- Standards -- Services, Bonds -- Evaluation, Credit ratings -- Standards, Computer services industry, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

During a meeting at Standard & Poor's New York offices in the summer of 2012, analysts responsible for rating bonds tied to home loans were informed that their unit had [...]

Published
2013

14. A model of consistency: CESR-Fin is responsible for trying to make sure that similar techniques are being used when applying financial reporting standards in the European Union. John Tiner, chair of CESR-Fin and chief executive of the UK financial regulator, the Financial Services Authority, tells Marc Barber why failure is not an option

Author

Barber, Marc

Subjects
Financial analysis -- Standards, Financial analysis -- Accounting and auditing, Financial analysis -- Laws, regulations and rules, Accounting -- Technique, Accounting -- Standards, Accounting -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business
Published
2006

15. At Moody's, Some Debt Was Rated Incorrectly

Author

Bajaj, Vikas

Subjects
Company securities, Moody's Corp. -- Services -- Securities, Financial analysis -- Standards, Holding companies -- Services -- Securities
Abstract

Already under intense scrutiny for its role in the credit crisis, the Moody's Corporation said Tuesday that some employees had violated its code of conduct in rating complex European securities. […]

Published
2008

16. Equal stars

Subjects
Financial analysis -- Standards, Rating agencies (Securities) -- Standards, Hotels and motels -- Evaluation -- United Kingdom -- Standards, Business, Human resources and labor relations, Travel industry
Abstract

In a move meant to clarify the often-touted but seldom-understood business of hotel ratings, tourism boards across Great Britain have agreed to a new set of standards. On Jan. 1, [...]

Published
2006

17. Firms welcome broad definition of research

Subjects
United Kingdom. Financial Services Authority -- Laws, regulations and rules, Financial analysis -- Standards, Government regulation, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business
Abstract

Firms have welcomed the U.K. Financial Services Authority's definition of soft commissions research, which they say is broad enough to include non-written research such as conversations with analysts. Many fund [...]

Published
2004

18. Credit where credit's due

Author

Beasley-Murray, Benjamin

Subjects
Financial analysts -- Standards, Financial analysts -- Evaluation, Financial analysts -- Forecasts and trends, Financial analysis -- Forecasts and trends, Financial analysis -- Standards, Credit market -- Analysis, Market trend/market analysis, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business
Abstract

Credit analysis by independent researchers has a cutting edge over the recommendations by banks. The growth of credit markets has increased the demand for independent research houses for their holistic analysis of the market trends.

Published
2003

19. Tainted goods: Wall Street's $1.4 billion settlement promises 'independent' research. Is it any good?

Author

Alpert, Bill

Subjects
Securities fraud -- Cases, Securities industry -- Cases, Securities industry -- Discipline, Financial analysis -- Standards, Securities industry, Company legal issue, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business
Abstract

The securities fraud settlement between 10 brokerages and New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer calls for the companies to insure research and analysis independent of their investment banking operations. The settlement does not stand up to scrutiny, however.

Published
2003

20. Security in numbers

Author

McTague, Jim

Subjects
Herz, Robert -- International relations, Herz, Robert -- Economic policy, Herz, Robert -- Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Financial analysis -- International aspects, Financial analysis -- Standards, Financial analysis -- Laws, regulations and rules, Accounting firms -- International aspects, Accounting firms -- Standards, Accounting firms -- Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business, Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Financial Accounting Standards Board -- Laws, regulations and rules, Financial Accounting Standards Board -- International relations, Financial Accounting Standards Board -- Influence, Financial Accounting Standards Board -- Standards, Financial Accounting Standards Board -- Officials and employees
Abstract

Financial Accounting Standards Board chairman Robert Herz has spent the first six months of his chairmanship rallying the unwieldly accounting governing structure to the task of implementing the Sarbanes-Oxley federal reforms of 2002. Some reforms, he adds, are better left to marketplace pressures.

Published
2002

21. Nothing material: S and P revises Williams view

Author

Doherty, Jacqueline

Subjects
The Williams Companies Inc. -- Finance, Standard & Poor's Corp. -- Services, Gas utilities -- Finance, Periodical publishing -- Services, Financial analysis -- Standards, Banking, finance and accounting industries, Business
Abstract

Utility Williams Companies welcomed revision by Standard and Poor's of analysis behind the latter's decision to place Williams on Credit Watch. S and P did not revise it's rating, however, a decision buttressed by Williams' additional 20% share decline.

Published
2002

22. Stock-research reform to die? Independent analysis was key to 2003 settlement; few investors sought it

Author

Kim, Jane J.

Subjects
Financial analysis -- Laws, regulations and rules, Financial analysis -- Standards, Financial services industry -- Services, Financial services industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Investment companies -- Laws, regulations and rules, Investment companies -- Services, Investors -- Behavior, Securities industry -- Laws, regulations and rules, Securities industry -- Services, Stocks -- Analysis, Stocks -- Research, Wall Street -- Research, Wall Street -- Laws, regulations and rules, Financial services industry, Securities industry, Government regulation, News, opinion and commentary
Published
2009

23. Moody's to delay rating plan; municipal bonds to be comparable with corporates

Author

Lucchetti, Aaron

Subjects
Moody's Investors Service Inc. -- Reports, Corporate bonds -- Rankings, Financial services industry -- Reports, Municipal bonds -- Rankings, Municipal bonds -- Evaluation, Rating agencies (Securities) -- Reports, Financial analysis -- Standards, Financial analysis -- Reports, Financial services industry, News, opinion and commentary
Published
2008

24. CDO ratings are whacked by Moody's; AAA to junk in a day raises more questions about arbiters

Author

Saha-Bubna, Aparajita and Mollenkamp, Carrick

Subjects
Moody's Investors Service Inc. -- Reports, Collateralized debt obligations -- Rankings, Credit market -- Forecasts and trends, Credit ratings -- Evaluation, Financial analysis -- Standards, Financial analysis -- Evaluation, Financial services industry -- Reports, Junk bonds -- Rankings, Rating agencies (Securities) -- Reports, Rating agencies (Securities) -- Evaluation, Subprime loans -- Forecasts and trends, Financial services industry, Market trend/market analysis, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

More concerns are raised about the effect ratings agencies have on financial markets as Moody's Investor Service downgrades dozens of collateralized debt obligations from AAA to junk-bond status.

Published
2007

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