Hiring activity among Canada’s accounting and finance professionals is expected to remain steady during the fourth quarter, according to the quarterly Robert Half Financial Hiring Index.

Videotaped remarks from Christopher Cox, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), will open the annual Government-Business Forum on Small Business Capital Formation. The Forum will be held on Friday, September 29, beginning at 9:00 a.m. (Eastern Daylight Time) at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the SEC.

The Office of the Chief Accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday issued a public letter to the accounting industry summarizing the staff’s views regarding the accounting for stock options in the historical financial statements of public companies.Advertisement

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 157, Fair Value Measurements, providing enhanced guidance for using fair value to measure assets and liabilities. More than 40 current accounting standards within generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) require or permit entities to measure assets and liabilities at fair value.

Maybe Patricia Dunn, the chairwoman of Hewlett Packard (HP), just wanted to know who was talking to reporters so she could be sure they had the most accurate information. It is more likely, however, that she wanted to find out who had loose lips so she could have them removed or at least silenced.

Great Florida Bank accomplishes what few de novo banks do while experiencing tremendous growth in its first year in existence. By partnering with Solutions@MBA, an affiliate of Morrison, Brown, Argiz, and Farra, they were able to identify regulatory issues and take swift and effective corrective action and thus the bank was very pleased with the results of its first IT regulatory exam. Organization OverviewIn June 2004, Great Florida Bank launched in the South Florida region with the establishment of its corporate headquarters located in Miami Lakes, FL.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is granting farmers affected by exceptional, extreme or severe drought conditions additional time to purchase replacement property for livestock they were forced to sell.

September 11, 2001, has had a far-reaching impact on the wages and earnings of individuals affected by the events of that day. Wages and weekly earnings for Arab and Muslim men living in the U.S. declined 10 percent following the attacks.

Some mortgage industry experts estimate that as much as one-half trillion dollars’ worth of adjustable rate mortgage loans (ARMs) are scheduled to reset this year, the Washington Post reports. Many will be the nontraditional Option ARMs which allow borrowers to choose to make minimum payments, less than the actual interest on the mortgage, for up to 60 months. The portion of the interest not paid in the Option ARM is added to the principal of the mortgage, and the borrower’s total debt just gets bigger each month, a negative amortization.