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Current Differences Between FASB And The IASB: What Is The Future Of Fair Value Accounting And More

Editor: David, you have been involved extensively with the fair value accounting issue. Can you tell us in which groups you participate? Larsen: Yes, I serve on the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB's) Valuation Resource Group. FASB is the private sector organization in the United...

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Mission Matters In Information Management Programs

A corporate mission serves as a foundation for successful corporate strategies.It can do the same for the information management strategy of your business. In the traditional information management model, a business determines whether it will keep information only long enough to meet its...

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The New Business Of Managing Information - A Process-Centric Approach

Process-centric information management ensures that critical business information is readily available, appropriately stored and easily located when needed. The most successful businesses are process-centric - meaning they organize the achievement of strategic and tactical goals around standard...

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Developing Effective Regional Compliance Programs At Multinational Organizations

Financial institutions and heavily regulated industries have undergone increased regulatory activity in recent years that has led to substantial changes in their compliance functions. Diversified products, complex regulations, multiple regulators and profit driven incentives are a few elements...

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Troubled Assets, Troubled Times: The Future Of Fair Value

The following are excerpts from a discussion hosted on March 18, 2009, by Duff & Phelps.The panelists were Warren Hirschhorn, Managing Director in Duff & Phelps' New York Office and global head of the firm's Portfolio Valuation practice, and David Larsen, Managing Director in Duff &...

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"GPS" For Your Organization: The Art And Science Of The Enterprise Information Map

The Global Positioning System ("GPS") is a network of two dozen satellites orbiting at 12,000 miles above the earth. The network is capable of pinpointing precise locations anywhere on the planet.1 Now, while an Enterprise Information Map (EIM) cannot claim to locate information from 12,000 miles...

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Records And Information Management: Essential To Organizational Compliance And Litigation Risks

Editor: Would each of you tell our readers something about your professional experience? Dunn: I have more than 20 years of experience in records and information management, consulting with corporations, law firms and government agencies. I am a certified records manager and hold a Master's degree...

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