fair value

Jeremy Newman BDO: we suspended belief

April 17, 2009 General

When Jeremy Newman was blogging as BDO’s UK CEO, I always admired the refreshing way he tackled subjects. I’m glad to see that in his role as global CEO, Jeremy has lost none of that spark. Thank goodness he has not been infected with the acquired need to talk double speak or legally sanitzed PR [...]

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Fair value causing problems in the US

July 17, 2008 General

CFO.com has come out with an article that makes a lot of sense to me. It will take more than a change in rules to make companies comfortable with the move to fair value accounting. It will take a change in “mindset,” predicts Gary Kabureck, the chief accountant and corporate vice president at Xerox Corp. [...]

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