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Mining Wikipedia for accounting topics

Wikipedia is a good source of infor­mation about a variety of topics. I’m pleased to find that it’s generally pretty good about accounting too. The article on the Balance Sheet contains “case studies” showing the effect of some trans­ac­tions on … Continue reading

09. October 2006 by Neil
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Pension brouhaha south of the border

FASB is coming out with some tough new standards relating to defined benefit pensions that is expected to result in signif­icant new liabil­ities (or increases to existing ones) for companies that had been accounting for their pensions under the more … Continue reading

05. October 2006 by Neil
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