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FAIR VALUE, IFRS, AND LITIGATION CAPS HANG IN THE BALANCE AS A NEW ADMINISTRATION LOOMS FOR AMERICA
BY JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
THE ACCOUNTANCY profession in the United States might think its day of reckoning came and went in 2002. But those who thought that the Sarbanes Oxley Act was the final word in regulation for the accounting profession may be in for a rude surprise.…
US OIL REFINERY INDUSTRY LEARNS TO DEAL WITH HURRICANES, AND IS STAYING PUT FOR NOW
BY LUCY JONES
ALMOST 20% of the United States’ oil refining capacity was shut after Hurricane Ike slammed into the Gulf Coast in September.
The effects were felt immediately. In Texas, petrol prices spiked around
US$5 a gallon and that is assuming you could find any fuel.…
OBAMA FAVOURS BALANCE; MCCAIN DEREGULATION - THE BIG US IFRS/FAIR VALUE DEBATE
BY ROEL CAMPOS
ONE can expect that the next United States administration, whether McCain or Obama, will address as a high priority the overall US financial regulatory structure. Two specific issues that will require immediate attention are fair value accounting and whether to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).…
SEQUENCING OF COCOA GENOME COULD IMPROVE RELIABILITY AND QUALITY OF THIS KEY INGREDIENT
BY MARK ROWE
THE CHOCOLATE giant Mars has begun work on sequencing the cocoa genome, a move that it says could dramatically improve the health and yields of cocoa growers around the world, guaranteeing food manufacturers with more reliable and high quality supplies.…
Local politics trump global free trade – even for India’s great liberaliser
By Raghavendra Verma, in New Delhi
The Indian parliament is full of socialists, communists, nationalists and most of all, opportunists who would jump on any issue that could be portrayed as anti-poor or anti-farmer. So onlookers might think it easy for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to play safe and let the WTO talks falter.…
Working out the World Trade Organisation: its rules count, everywhere
By Keith Nuthall The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is the globe’s deal making forum. When conspiracy theorists claim the there is a plot to create a world government, they often accuse the WTO as being a nascent international authority. And guess what? They have a point. WTO agreements are global in scope, and enforceable within the organisation’s disputes settlement procedures.
And so member governments have to obey. If a dispute settlement body panel rules that a government is breaking a WTO rule, then they must change a policy or even a law, if it is at fault. And this would apply even if that law itself was based on rules laid down by a regional international grouping such as the European Union (EU) or the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).…
EU ROUND UP - EUROPEAN ENERGY NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA FROZEN OVER GEORGIA CONFLICT
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has frozen its partnership and cooperation negotiations with Russia over the Georgia conflict, just three months after the talks were launched following long delays. An emergency meeting of the EU Council of Ministers has ordered no meetings will take place with Moscow on the agreement until its "troops have withdrawn to the positions held prior to 7 August", prior to its short war with Georgia.…
ZIMBABWE'S NURSES COPE WITH EQUIPMENT AND FINDING SHORTAGES, WHILE MANY ABANDON THE COUNTRY
BY CLEMENCE MANYUKWE
SHYLETTE Chifamba, 38, works for 12 hours each day at Harare’s Baines Avenues Clinic, one of the country’s elite private hospitals. Mrs Chifamba has worked for 13 years as an operating theatre nurse, five of which were at the government-run Harare Central Hospital, where she was also trained.…
PROHIBITION LAW COMES IN HANDY IN CANADA
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN winery owners in British Columbia have been warned by provincial alcohol monopolies in Ontario and Manitoba to stop direct sales to their residents, citing a law from the prohibition era.
To date, the Mission Hill Family Estate Winery and the Red Rooster winery have been officially informed that they are breaking the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act of 1928 that faces up to a year in prison after a second offence.…
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE CONTROLS REFORMS APPROVED FOR EU
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has approved the writing into European Union (EU) law of the UN’s ‘globally harmonised system on classification, labelling and packaging of hazardous substances’ – which includes paint, dyes, coating and adhesives chemicals. Although the United Nations’ (UN) rules are similar to existing EU legislation, a series of technical changes will now have to be implemented by all chemical-based goods packagers by 2015.…