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    Gender diversity on boards correlates with high credit quality: Moody’s

    Investors seek greater gender and racial diversity on corporate boards, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

    By March 5, 2024
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    Tech startup Slice raises $7M for equity compensation platform

    The funding will help the startup to further develop the platform while expanding its geographic reach, according to CEO Maor Levran.

    By March 5, 2024
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    Financial reporting enters a new age

    Finance leaders are increasingly relying on metrics including churn, net promoter score and customer growth to reveal company performance in a way traditional GAAP measures cannot.

    By CFO Dive staff
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    93% of firms use a mix of ESG standards, thwarting uniformity efforts: IFAC

    The spotlight on confusion from a jumble of ESG frameworks comes just days before a vote on an SEC rule aimed at ensuring uniformity in climate disclosure.

    By March 4, 2024
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    Ex-Trump CFO Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury

    The ex-CFO will be sentenced to five months in jail after pleading guilty to two counts of perjury, according to reports, his second felony conviction in two years.

    By March 4, 2024
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    SEC charges Lordstown Motors with misleading investors on sales outlook

    Lordstown’s auditor and adviser also faces SEC sanctions for allegedly violating independence standards.

    By March 1, 2024
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    Clearing the tax ‘data swamp’: Thomson Reuters

    To keep pace with emerging tax requirements, organizations need to change their processes as well as their technologies, Thomson Reuters’ Ray Grove said.  

    By Feb. 29, 2024
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    Few link 150 credit hours to more prepared accounting graduates

    Less than 10% of NJCPA members surveyed reported seeing accounting graduates with an extra 30 hours of college credit as “noticeably” better prepared.

    By Feb. 28, 2024
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    Judge denies former View CFO motion to dismiss SEC complaint

    The SEC had “adequately alleged facts” which allowed the court to reasonably infer negligence on the part of the ex-CFO, the judge said.

    By Feb. 28, 2024
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    CFOs take backseat to CISOs on SEC cyber rules

    Less than half of finance chiefs are involved in the SEC's cybersecurity breach disclosure process, AuditBoard found.

    By Feb. 27, 2024
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    MGM Resorts’ cyberattack headache continues as regulators launch investigations

    The company said it could face fines in connection with regulatory inquiries stemming from the social engineering attack.

    By David Jones • Feb. 26, 2024
  • SEC charges husband for insider trading on wife’s deal-making for BP

    A Houston resident overheard merger negotiations by his wife, a former BP employee, and engaged in insider trading, the SEC alleged.

    By Feb. 23, 2024
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    IRS targets ‘under the radar’ misuse of corporate jets: Werfel

    The IRS has stepped up tax enforcement since Congress approved a $80 billion funding boost in 2022.

    By Feb. 22, 2024
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    Judge orders Trump Organization to pay $364M in long-awaited civil fraud ruling

    Judge Engoron also permanently banned the organization’s ex-CFO and ex-controller from serving in the financial control function of any New York corporation.

    By Feb. 16, 2024
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    Former NJ law firm CFO charged in $1.5M embezzlement scheme

    The ex-finance chief had his law firm pay $355,256 in credit card ex-expenses for himself and his family, the New Jersey Attorney General alleges.

    By Feb. 16, 2024
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    Imminent Trump civil fraud ruling could spur due diligence reckoning

    The anticipated ruling could serve as warning to executives at companies run by dominant personalities to do their own due diligence on financial matters, Hofstra's Jack Castonguay said.

    By Feb. 16, 2024
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    Werfel defends IRS against Republican efforts to slash funding

    Before the approval of $80 billion in extra funding in 2022, the Internal Revenue Services fielded just one examiner for every 150 of the largest tax filers, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel said.

    By Feb. 15, 2024
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    Auditors should follow tougher standards for identifying fraud: IAASB

    A proposal for stricter rules by the global standard setter for corporate audits follows what it says is a rash in fraud cases in recent years.

    By Feb. 12, 2024
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    HPE seeks to recoup $4B in long-running fraud case

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise attorneys want the founder and ex-CFO of Autonomy to pay for the steep losses HPE faced after acquiring their firm.

    By Feb. 12, 2024
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    R&D tax rollback proposal leaves CFOs ‘on edge’

    Many businesses applauded when a tax package with the key R&D provision sailed through the U.S. House. Now they’re waiting for the Senate to act.

    By Feb. 8, 2024
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    Yellen backs legislation to avert AI threat to financial stability

    Testimony by the Treasury Secretary follows a pledge by the Biden administration to seize on the benefits of artificial intelligence while containing its risks.

    By Feb. 8, 2024
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    Ex-CFO’s alleged perjury should not impact Trump civil fraud decision, lawyers say

    Reports of potential perjury raise questions about the credibility of the former finance chief’s testimony during the Trump Organization’s civil fraud trial.

    By Feb. 8, 2024
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    IRS to collect $561B more in tax revenue with new enforcement funds

    The Treasury highlighted the payoff from stepped up funding for IRS enforcement as Republicans seek to cut the agency budget.

    By Feb. 7, 2024
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    CEO, CFO compensation clawback helps tech firm skirt SEC fine

    Cloopen Group avoided civil penalties after cooperating with the agency and taking remedial steps, despite an accounting fraud scandal that triggered SEC charges.

    By Feb. 7, 2024
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    Ex-Trump CFO could face prison again, experts say

    Judge Arthur Engoron shone a spotlight on the ex-CFO’s credibility in a Tuesday email, asking attorneys in the Trump civil fraud case for clarity on the potential plea.

    By Feb. 6, 2024
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    Yellen says commercial real estate losses may leave banks ‘quite stressed’

    Bank regulators aim to avert turmoil caused by a slump in the value of commercial real estate, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in testimony to a House committee.

    By Feb. 6, 2024