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...Brian Wieser, an advertising analyst and principal at Madison and Wall, said seeking new revenue streams through the introduction of a paywall for access to its application programming interface, or API,...
...Buffett has long characterised the swings in its investment portfolio — which it must recognise in its profit and loss statements due to accounting rules — as “meaningless”....
...Tougher capital rules for banks after 2008 opened up one of Wall Street’s more exclusive markets to other computer-orientated dealers, known as principal trading firms....
...In the seven years since Toshiba was first caught in an accounting scandal, the company has lurched from financial crisis to conflict with its shareholders....
...“It has definitely opened people’s minds in terms of the art of the possible,” said Na Wei, a managing director at Barclays, which led the transaction....
...The principal-agent conundrum has always been at the centre of corporate governance....
...The company, which by 2017 had spent more than $40bn on global acquisitions, was apologising to its investors for suddenly announcing a delay by a year for both principal and interest payments for a bond...
...A version of this article was first published on May 20 by the Nikkei Asian Review. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...“The principal reason for the delay is that recently identified material weaknesses in internal controls over the company’s revenue recording processes and the procedures for measuring fair value of assets...
...UBS and StanChart sponsored the IPO of China Forestry in 2009, a timber company that has since been delisted for fraudulent accounting activities and put into liquidation....
...Debra Aho Williamson, principal analyst at research firm eMarketer, said that when Snap fully rolls out its Android app, “it could move the company back into growth territory”....
...Francisco Partners, founded by former TPG principal Dipanjan Deb, raised more than $3bn for its latest fund in 2017....
...While the principals and those on the monetary side emphasised this as key, another dismissed the idea completely....
...A study by Brandon Emmerich, principal at Granite Peak Advisory, shows levels of indebtedness among A-shares is extremely high....
...The shift is due to changes to the “principal versus agent” rules that determine when a company is acting as a principal and when it is acting as an agent....
...This is a reflection of a serious principal-agent problem....
...One service in high demand is so-called compression, an accounting technique designed to lower the gross value of derivatives positions by cancelling offsetting trades....
...That structure is breaking down, spurred in part by a rise in prominence of high frequency, principal trading groups that have muscled their way on to interbank trading venues as some established dealers...
...Since becoming Thomson Reuters chief executive in 2011, Mr Smith prioritised the group’s three principal divisions, which provide information and data to the financial and risk, legal and accounting industries...
...Mr Greenberg said through his attorneys at Boies, Schiller & Flexner in New York that he “respectfully disagrees with the court’s decision, which inexplicably fails to address at all the principal argument...
...“Our prior policy tracked actual monthly cashflows and principal outstanding which we felt was the most transparent and straightforward accounting....
...And the biggest factor, he suggests, accounting for about half of the slowdown, is a deterioration in the wider economy....
...Bridging a financing gap JBIC is the principal government entity providing support for overseas investments by Japanese corporations, funding projects that would be too large or risky for private-sector...
...Under accounting rules, the reserves are deducted from the bank’s profit-and-loss statement....
...That is when hackers began serious attacks on mobile phones, says David Emm, principal security researcher, at Kaspersky Lab, a cyber security company....
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