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  • SEC charges former CFO of cash advance company with fraud

    Alan Heide allegedly signed investors' monthly account statements despite knowing they overstated the company's value and falsely represented the financials. 

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 16, 2019

  • SEC easing public companies' business disclosures

    Public companies have more flexibility in describing their business and the risks they face in proposed changes to SEC rules.

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 13, 2019
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    Trendline

    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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    IRS aims to curb ID theft with truncated Social Security numbers on W-2s

    Starting with returns filed after Dec. 31, 2020, executives can replace the first five digits of employees' Social Security numbers with Xs or asterisks.

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 7, 2019
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    $650 million Equifax settlement a wake-up call for CFOs, security expert says

    CFOs are advised to devote the resources to put verification systems in place to avoid the kind of consumer data breach that hit Equifax.

    By Jane Thier • Aug. 2, 2019
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    Opinion

    As simple as it sounds, just identifying your leases is the highest hurdle to new FASB standards

    CFOs of private companies don't have much time to comply with new lease accounting standards even if FASB extends the start date a year, as it has proposed.

    By Marc Betesh • Aug. 2, 2019
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    SEC hits Brixmor CFO, former REIT execs with $7M fraud fine

    Executives improperly manipulated same-property NOI reporting, subjecting their company to the SEC fine.

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 2, 2019
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    FASB to delay lease accounting rules until 2021

    New lease accounting standards won't go into effect until 2021 for private companies in a FASB proposal that's expected to be adopted soon. 

    By Robert Freedman • Aug. 1, 2019

  • What Facebook's $5B FTC settlement means for Zuckerberg, third parties and corporate structure

    The social network essentially had its data privacy standards set by "their most click-happy friend," said Gustav Eyler, director at the Department of Justice.

    By Samantha Schwartz • July 25, 2019