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<description>Highlights from SEC, PCAOB, FASB and IASB News, including Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404.</description>
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<title>G-20 Recommends Specific Actions</title>
<description><![CDATA[  The   Declaration   issued at the conclusion of yesterday&rsquo;s G-20 Summit on Financial Markets and the Economy laid out specific actions to be taken by accounting standard&ndash;setters, regulators, finance ministers and others, some of which are to  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:28:14 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=611</link>
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<title>SEC Releases Proposed IFRS Roadmap; Important News for Subscribers</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Props to   Securities Mosaic&rsquo;s   subscription service which emailed an SEC Regulation Alert at 6:53 pm EST tonight that the SEC has posted (under proposed rules): &ldquo;  Roadmap for the Potential Use of Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:16:36 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=610</link>
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<title>SEC Releases Proposed IFRS Roadmap; Important News for Subscribers</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Props to   Securities Mosaic&rsquo;s   subscription service which emailed an SEC Regulation Alert at 6:53 pm EST tonight that the SEC has posted (under proposed rules): &ldquo;  Roadmap for the Potential Use of Financial Statements Prepared in Accordance ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:16:36 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=610</link>
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<title>FAF Writes President Bush, G20; Treasury Refocuses TARP, More</title>
<description><![CDATA[   In a letter posted on the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) website today, Robert Denham, President of the board of Trustees of the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF) (which oversees the FASB), sent a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:42:55 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=609</link>
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<title>COSO´s New Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control: What You Need To Know</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Final guidance is expected to be published by       COSO       before year-end on Monitoring Internal Control Systems. Companies that reference COSO&rsquo;s internal control framework (first set forth in COSO&rsquo;s landmark 1992 Internal control-Inte ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:13:46 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=608</link>
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<title>COSO´s New Guidance on Monitoring Internal Control: What You Need To Know</title>
<description><![CDATA[    Final guidance is expected to be published by       COSO       before year-end on Monitoring Internal Control Systems. Companies that reference COSO&rsquo;s internal control framework (first set forth in COSO&rsquo;s landmark 1992 Internal control-Inte ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:13:46 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=608</link>
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<title>FASB Votes To Make New Securitization Disclosures Effective This Year</title>
<description><![CDATA[  At its board meeting earlier today, FASB redeliberated Proposed FSP FAS 140-e and FIN 46(R)-e, Disclosures about Transfers of Financial Assets and Interests in Variable Interest Entities, and voted to make the new disclosure requirements   effective for  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:10:28 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=607</link>
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<title>IASCF Trustees Send A Message To Pres. Bush, G20</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Earlier today, the Trustees of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASCF) &ndash;overseer of the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) - issued a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush, asking him to share the letter w ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:27:30 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=606</link>
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<title>One, Singular Regulation</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Members of Congress and others are increasingly talking about forming a single, systemic risk regulator for the financial markets, in hopes that it will be   one singular sensation   by viewing systemic risk holistically instead of under the current, lar ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:17:07 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=605</link>
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<title>Obama To Appoint Team With All Deliberate Haste, Emphasizing Deliberate</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Following a meeting with his Transition Economic Advisory Board (TEAB) on Friday, President-Elect Barack Obama told a   press conference   that as far as announcing senior level appointments in his administration, &ldquo;There is no doubt that I think pe ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:55:51 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=604</link>
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<title>Obama To Appoint Team With All Deliberate Haste, Emphasizing Deliberate</title>
<description><![CDATA[  Following a meeting with his Transition Economic Advisory Board (TEAB) on Friday, President-Elect Barack Obama told a   press conference   that as far as announcing senior level appointments in his administration, &ldquo;There is no doubt that I think pe ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:55:51 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=604</link>
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<title>Abundance Of Caution Being Applied To Securitizations, Auditor Tells FASB Roundtable</title>
<description><![CDATA[   A Big 4 auditor told a FASB roundtable yesterday that his firm is&nbsp;applying &lsquo;an abundance of caution&rsquo; in determining the impact of any implicit obligations of banks or other issuers in connection with off-balance sheet vehicles. The roun ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:41:17 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=603</link>
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<title>Of Landslides and Watersheds</title>
<description><![CDATA[   The results of yesterday&rsquo;s&nbsp;presidential election, in which&nbsp;Barack Obama was  reported by the Associated Press  to have experienced a 'resounding' win if not a 'landslide,'&nbsp;is a watershed moment in our history, a history in which   t ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:44:41 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=602</link>
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<title>Of Landslides and Watersheds</title>
<description><![CDATA[   The results of yesterday&rsquo;s&nbsp;presidential election, in which&nbsp;Barack Obama was  reported by the Associated Press  to have experienced a 'resounding' win if not a 'landslide,'&nbsp;is a watershed moment in our history, a history in which   t ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:44:41 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=602</link>
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<title>FASB Posts Proposal To Defer FIN 48, Uncertain Income Taxes, For Private Cos.</title>
<description><![CDATA[   Earlier today, FASB posted   Proposed FASB Staff Position (FSP) No. FIN 48-c, Effective Date of FASB Interpretation No. 48 for Certain Nonpublic Enterprises   .    The proposed FSP   would amend FASB Interpretation No. 48, Accounting for Uncertainty in  ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:17:46 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=601</link>
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<title>Today´s Reading List</title>
<description><![CDATA[   Interested in the likelihood of final rules coming from the SEC during the remainder of this year? Take a look at: &ldquo;    Dissecting the SEC's Ability to Rulemake During a Moratorium,&rdquo;      by   Broc Romanek in The CorporateCounsel.net blog.   ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 10:08:40 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=600</link>
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<title>FASB To Hold Roundtable Nov. 6 On Proposed Securitization Changes</title>
<description><![CDATA[   Today&rsquo;s   FASB Action Alert   announced that FASB will hold a roundtable on  Thurs. Nov. 6  on its proposed changes to securitization and related consolidation rules. Specifically, the roundtable will feature respondents to FASB&rsquo;s Exposure D ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:19:56 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=599</link>
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<title>FASB Votes On Pension Disclosures, Bus Comb; SEC Roundtable</title>
<description><![CDATA[   At yesterday&rsquo;s FASB board meeting, the board reaffirmed the effective date for its upcoming FSP on   Employers&rsquo; Disclosures about Postretirement Benefit Plan Assets     will be  f  iscal years ending after December 15, 2009, with early appli ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:11:32 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=598</link>
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<title>SEC To Examine: How Is Fair Value Faring?</title>
<description><![CDATA[   The SEC is slated to hear from investors, auditors, issuers and others on the impact of mark-to-market accounting (MTM), when they convene a roundtable on this subject (also called fair value (FV) accounting) on Oct. 29.&nbsp;Although there are technica ]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:57:10 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=597</link>
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<title>Fair Value Concept Release Coming By Year-End, Practice Alert on Current Environment Likely Too, PCAOB Tells SAG</title>
<description><![CDATA[    The      Public Company Accounting Oversight Board      intends to publish&nbsp;a Concept Release on fair value and use of specialists by the end of 2008, PCAOB staff told an advisory group yesterday.    
   Deputy Chief Auditor  Jennifer Rand , prese ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:45:31 EST</pubDate>
<link>http://www.financialexecutives.org/blog/permanent.cfm?post_id=596</link>
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