China Gradually opens Financial Sectors to Foreign Entities
Up to APRIL 2018, foreign entities cannot own a majority or control joint venture securities firms in China. The industry is considered by the government as one of the ‘protected sectors’. Over the last 2 years the Chinese government have been studying to open up the capital markets to foreign investors as part of its…
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Paul Wan, FCA
Failed Corporate Governance: Handmaiden of Financial Fraud
Financial reporting frauds (also called management frauds) have become endemic, with huge losses being inflicted upon shareholders, creditors and others. Some of the most infamous frauds of the past two decades – Enron, WorldCom, Satyam, Olympus, Toshiba, and Parmalat being a small sample – have implicated the same key concerns. These include: the deviant “dark…
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Barry Jay Epstein, Ph.D., CPA
IFRS for Small and Medium-Sized Entities
On July 9, 2009, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for Small and Medium-Sized Entities (SME). The stated goal of the standard is to provide a simplified, self-contained set of accounting principles derived from the full IFRS to be used by smaller, non-listed companies. The perceived need for a…
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