Top 10 FEI blog posts in 2009, by number of pageviews (from #1 to #10):
- FASB Issues FAS 166, 167 Amending FAS 140, FIN 46R on Securitizations, SPEs
- FASB Releases FAS 165, Subsequent Events
- Testimony Posted for Mark-to-Market Hearing; Sen. Dodd Considers 'Breakers,' Niederauer Sees MTM as 'Gas on a Fire'
- IASB Releases IFRS 9 - Financial Instruments (Completes 1st Phase of Project: Classification & Measurement)
- FAS 166, 167 Putting the Kibosh on Q's Expected This Week; SEC Forms Investor Advisory Committee
- SEC's 'Dear CFO' Letter on MD&A Disclosure of Loan Loss Provisions, ALLL
- Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act (FERA) Picks Up Speed; Madoff Update
- FASB Releases 'Plain English' Statement on Fair Value Actions
- FASB Issues FSP EITF 99-20-1 on Impairment of Financial Instruments (OTTI)
- FASB Stakes Claim on Disclosure of Litigation Contingencies
Note: I found it difficult to narrow down my 'favorites' to just 10 posts, so I narrowed it down to 10 categories, some with multiple posts. The listings within each category generally represent my favorite posts on that topic in 2009 (with a few non-favorites thrown in to provide historical/chronological context within some of the more detailed categories); however the lists below are not a comprehensive list of all posts we made on any particular topic. (Note: I have excluded from the list a few posts that are among my personal favorites, but relate to holidays or other particular events.) Categories are listed in alphabetical order; posts within categories are generally listed chronologically.
1. Credit Crisis, Financial Regulatory Reform; Related SEC Actions
- SEC's Schapiro Announces Enforcement, Investor Initiatives; Becker Returns to SEC
- Unstuck From The Moment: Financial Stability Plan to be Unveiled by Geithner Today
- Fact Sheet, Geithner Speech Posted: Treasury's Financial Stability Plan
- Under Pressure
- Obama on Regulation
- Treasury Releases Reg Reform Paper in Advance of Press Conference
- Say, Say, Say-on-Pay
- H.R. 4173, Wall St. Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Passes House; Summary of Accounting, Audit Related Provisions
- Proxy Disclosure of Stock-Based Comp to Change Under SEC Final Rule Approved Today; Other Disclosures Relate to Governance, Risk and Compensation
- User Views on Fair Value, More
- Suspend Disbelief: How Fair Value Accounting Could Be Modified For Geithner's Plan
- FASB, SEC Commit to Provide Fair Value (Mark-to-Market) Guidance by April 2
- FASB Releases 'Plain English' Statement On Fair Value Actions
- Herz Tells FCAG, 'Rethinks' Exit Value in Certain Circumstances
- SEC's 'Dear CFO' Letter on MD&A Disclosure of Loan Loss Provisions, ALLL
- No IFRS, Ands Or Buts Until Convergence, NASBA Tells SEC
- Map Quest: Comments Roll In On SEC IFRS Roadmap
- G-20 Calls for Convergence By June, 2011
- FASB, IASB To 'Retriple' Efforts to Meet 2011 Convergence Deadline; FASB, IASB Reaffirm Convergence by June, 2011
- May be a Silver Lining to Current Non-endorsement of IFRS 9 by European Commission, IASB Board Member Says
- IFRS Roadmap Action Expected in Early 2010; Says SEC's Walter
5. Legal:
- Disclosure Is Not a Place to Try A Lawsuit, ABA Tells FASB
- SEC's Khuzami 'Skeptical' of Auditors' Claims on Privilege
- Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Is Over, Dodd Tells Madoff Hearing; Schapiro, Geithner Sworn In
- Madoff Sentenced to 150 Years
- SEC OIG Report on Madoff Affair: A Tale of Redemption
- IASB Publishes IFRS for SMEs
- FASB Advisory Committee Calls For FAF To Consider Separate Private Co. GAAP
- FEI Applauds Formation of Blue Ribbon Panel on Private Co. Accounting
- SEC Extends Sarbanes-Oxley 404(b) Deadline For Small Co's [See also Sarbanes-Oxley related provisions in H.R. 4173 listed under Credit Crisis, Financial Regulatory Reform category above.]
- PCAOB, Awaiting Supreme Court, Approves Budget; PCAOB Approves AS7, Engagement Quality Review; PCAOB Reproposes Risk Assessment Standards; PCAOB Announces Ambitious Agenda; May Be Time To 'Dial Up' on Fraud, Silvers Says
- COSO Updated Fraud Study Coming; Garrett Proposes Sarbox Exemption; COSO Releases Thought Paper on ERM; COSO To Release Monitoring Guidance Feb. 4; Seeks New Chair
- Social Media, YouTube and Us
- Get a (Second) Life
- Accounting Gets Its Own Tabloid; SEC Offers Email News
- FASB and Due Process
- FASB Adds Project on Disclosure Framework; Will Not Be 'Additive,' Says Herz
- Yin-Yang Time for Regulators, Standard-Setters
- Why Accounting Matters
We thank one of our blog readers, Prof. David Albrecht, author of The Summa, for his suggestion (received via Twitter) to provide a Top 10 list of our 2009 posts; see his own top 10 list for his blog, in Best of The Summa 2009.
Separately, CFO.com published a number of "Best of..." lists of their 2009 coverage of various topics; see e.g. CFO.com's Best of 2009: Accounting.
[UPDATE: Another great list, which I found when catching up on year-end emails, was the one posted by Bill Sheridan on Dec. 31 in the Maryland Association of CPAs (MACPA) blog, CPA Success, entitled, The Mother of All Year-End Lists.]
Looking ahead, (as we noted in our post on Dec. 21), see also FEI President & CEO's List of Top Challenges for Financial Executives in 2010.
It would be intriguing to see other bloggers and writers post top 10 lists of their most popular and/or favorite posts from 2009, and/or their lists of what they anticipate the top challenges for 2010 to be. I encourage other bloggers and writers who publish such lists to post a comment below, linking to their list. We also welcome general feedback from readers; you can post a comment anonymously, or with your name.
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5 comments:
Is that a hint? I have been quite lazy this holiday period, but plan to come out of the gate running with some things I've been working on quietly, stealthily. Is that a word? Thanks so much for all of your support and encouragement throughout the year, Edith. You are near the top of my Top Ten amazing, smart and wonderfully kind and generous people.
Edith, you cheat! 10 categories?
Best of The Summa (2009)
http://profalbrecht.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/best-of-the-summa-2009/
Dave Albrecht
Francine, thanks very much for your comment and being a great colleague (what do we call ourselves, 'fellow' bloggers?)
Dave, would it help if I said my method of narrowing down to a 'top 10' was principles-based? I can already see you shaking your head 'no' across the miles ... :) Thanks for the challenge, though, and I hope others follow your lead.
Edith,
Thanks for the invitation to link to our 2009 top ten accounting/finance blog posts.
Here's mine: http://saramcintosh.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/sex-and-rock-n-roll-in-the-world-of-finance/
Thanks Dave for coming up with the challenge in the first place.
Happy New Year!
Sara McIntosh
particularly liked the article on leadership.
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