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Britain to urge green accounting at Rio+20 summit
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will urge businesses and governments to start accounting for natural capital as an additional way of measuring economic activity at a U.N. sustainability summit in June, its environment minister said on Thursday. This could mean moving towards a concept of GDP+, or measuring the use or loss of natural resources like water, agriculture and forests to gauge economic ...

Detecting Accounting Manipulation
"One-time charges" and "investment gains" are two strategies companies can use to distort their numbers.

Spectrum Brands Reduces Operational Risk with Hedge Accounting Insight
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb.� 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Spectrum Brands, the multi-billion dollar company behind leading brands Rayovac and Remington, has selected Hedge Accounting Insight as its hedge ...

Canadian Small Businesses: Kashoo and PaymentEvolution Are Partnering Up to Soothe Your Accounting & Payroll Headaches
TORONTO, ONTARIO-- - For Canadian small businesses, accounting and payroll are massive headaches. Recognizing this, and in the spirit of giving Canadian small businesses a break, Kashoo , a Vancouver-based ...

The Public Accounting Program at Rasmussen College Now Available at all Minnesota Campus Locations
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Rasmussen College announced today it has expanded availability of its Public Accounting degree program, launching the Bachelor's degree program at all Minnesota ...

Red Mountain Resources Appoints Hilda D. Kouvelis Chief Accounting Officer
Red Mountain Resources, Inc. , a growth-oriented energy company engaged in the acquisition, development and exploration of oil and natural gas properties, today announced the appointment of Hilda D.

UPDATE 1-Global accounting reform ups pressure on U.S. to sign up
(Adds comment) LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Plans by the accounting bodyresponsible for global standards to make itself more answerableto the public will put pressure on the United States to sign upor risk ...

Accounting industry watchdog's biggest fine yet: Ernst & Young to pay $2M for audit lapses
WASHINGTON - The watchdog agency for the accounting industry says it has fined big firm Ernst & Young $2 million for alleged lapses in three audits of a pharmaceutical company.

Global accounting reform ups pressure on U.S. to sign up
LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Plans by the accounting bodyresponsible for global standards to make itself more answerableto the public will put pressure on the United States to sign upor risk losing influence. ...

Stanford used fake accounting to back bank: witness
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Allen Stanford used fake accounting to prop up his offshore bank in its waning days, as withdrawal requests from investors poured in, Stanford's former top deputy said on Monday. Faced with a worrying number of withdrawals in 2008, Stanford came up with a plan to make a $600 million capital infusion into the bank, said James Davis, Stanford's former chief financial officer ...