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<title><![CDATA[IFRS and Privately Held Companies (Dec. 2008)]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:00:26 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Although privately held companies are not subject to the SEC requirements, they face the choice not only between IFRS and U.S. GAAP, but between full IFRS and IFRS for Private Entities. This white paper, developed in partnership with the Financial Executives Research Foundation, outlines how both sets of standards can affect privately held companies, as well as the benefits and barriers to conversion.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Universal language: IFRS and XBRL]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:57:38 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[With estimates that International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) could become more pervasive or even required as early as 2011, boards need to know where their organizations stand. Another &quot;universal language,&quot; eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), is supported by the SEC and is gaining greater currency. Boards will need to ensure proper IT controls are operating when their companies transition to XBRL. This issue of Grant Thronton LLP's CorporateGovernor also includes and article on enterprise risk management.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mara Der Hovanesian]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:47:35 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Mara Der Hovanesian is the Finance and Banking Dept. editor at BusinessWeek. Before joining BusinessWeek in May, 2000, she covered mutual funds and personal finance for Dow Jones and for Knight-Ridder newspapers. Der Hovanesian received her master’s in economics from California State University in San Francisco in 1990. She won a first-place award from the Associated Press for business writing in 1996 and a scholarship to the Institute for Political Journalism at Georgetown University in 1986.]]></description>
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