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What Enron meant to me

July 21st, 2006 · 2 Comments

Enron burst into flames around January 2002. I was just starting my second semester at Brock University in the esteemed Bachelor of Accounting program when the Houston-based company went down. What did this mean to a 19-year-old Canadian accounting student with no share holdings and no knowledge of the energy trading giant from Texas? Actually, a […]

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Category: Auditing
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More discussion of rules versus principles

June 5th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Dennis over at AccMan Pro has commented on the difference between rules-based US GAAP and inter­na­tional principles-based IFRS, and his thoughts echo mine: Recent commentary has suggested the idea of conver­gence between US GAAP and IFRS won’t happen until hell freezes over. I’ve long held the view that the rules based US GAAP system is […]

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Category: Accounting Standards
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