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BCSB: Getting Operating Cash Right
Posted on August 29th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
A couple days ago, it was noted in this space that Vail Resorts had some large changes in its cash from operations after putting its cash flows ...

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Dell: It’s All Over But The Shoutin’
Posted on August 17th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
And the shoutin’ will be heard for quite a while. (Sorry. Can’t shake the country jag that got started yesterday. Post title above is from the 2004 masterpiece by Southern ...

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A Deeper Dig At AES
Posted on August 7th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
Back in March, AES Corporation put a hold on their previously issued financials for a whole host of “remediation” issues - remediation in th...

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A Shorter Shortcut?
Posted on July 30th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
Failed shortcut accounting (in testing for “effectiveness” of hedge relationships) has provided frequent fodder for this blog. Last week, the FASB issued a proposal that might get financial statement preparers on the righ...

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Feet Of KLA(-Tencor)
Posted on July 26th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
The discovery period of the backdating drama is largely behind us - it seems like all the special committees that were formed last year to ex...

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Cadence Financial’s 159 Recall
Posted on July 25th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
Early this year, many companies took advantage of their options - their fair value options, that is - and adopted Statement 159 as of the beginning of the year. That r...

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For A Few Dollars More: IBM’s Leasing Adventure
Posted on June 27th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
Yesterday, the SEC settled charges with International Business Machines for a sham transaction conducted with Dollar General in 1999 and 2000....

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A Deeper Shade Of Green For Bluegreen
Posted on June 26th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
Community and resort builder Bluegreen filed a non-reliance 8-K last week on its 2006 10-K and first quarter 2007 10-Q. Reason? It needs to rework its cash flow sta...

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Power Technology’s Derivative Do-Over
Posted on June 25th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
It’s not often that firms with a market cap of less than $2 million get mentioned in this space. Today’s an exception: a little ou...

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Community Banks: First Quarter Recall
Posted on June 18th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
Community Banks of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, issued a product recall of sorts on its first quarter financial statements via the filing of a non...

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Aspen Revisits 2005 & 2006
Posted on June 13th, 2007 on The AAO Weblog
A little time traveling today. Aspen Technology announced on Monday that its financial statements for the years ending June 30, 2005 and 2006 along with quarterly fil...

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