Articles in category: Featured

• September Gray Swan Portfolio
• Executives Dumping Stock is a Bad Leading Indicator
• Restating the (Financial) Facts: A Review of the Academic Literature on Restatements
• Cyber Incidents Continue to Rise
• Concern is Warranted: Warrants as Liabilities vs. Equities
• Why Are Companies Using 10-K/As to Disclose Bad News in 2021?
• Unsafe to Mislead
• Slouching in SPAC-land: Poor Returns
• Matchmaker, Matchmaker--Sponsor Advantage
• Sizzle and PIPE Dreams in SPAC-land
• Analyzing Securities Class Actions by Size
• Mergers Plant the Seeds For Litigation
• Watch Out for Audit Fee Jumps
• Do Not Ignore Spikes in Non-Audit Fees
• Auditors Can Help Prevent Costly Litigation
• The 5 Worst Industries for CFO Turnover
• CFO Turnover Falls (a little) in 2020
• On Trial: Personal Experience versus Hard Data
• Small Companies 5X More Likely Than Large Companies to Report a Control Deficiency
• Foreign Restatements and Securities Class Action Suits
• The Impact of Securities Lawsuits
• Restatements More Disruptive to Foreign Companies than U.S. Companies
• 2020: U.S. Restatements Fall to 10-Year Low
• Biotech and Pharmaceutical Litigation in 2020
• Review of 2020's High-Risk Companies
• FINRA May Change Rules of the Game for Online Brokers
• 2020: Short Reports Fuel Lawsuits Against Chinese Companies
• ETF Growth Continues in 2020
• Are We Making the Same Mistakes with ETFs that We Made with CDOs?
• Online Brokers are ... Not Brokers?
• Who is Auditing SPACs?
• SPACs in the Cayman Islands
• Money to Burn?
• The Impact of CEO Changes
• Material Weaknesses Worsen
• Red Flag CEO Changes
• Why Has CEO Turnover Remained High for the Last Three Years?
• Divided Loyalty: Something is Rotten in Beijing
• The Post-Cyan Paradigm: Part II
• The Post-Cyan Paradigm
• Finding Fraud: Chinese Delistings Part II
• Only the Good Die Young? Chinese Delistings: Part I
• The Impact of Restatements: The Bigger They Are…
• Restatements Are Rare, But Can Pack a Punch
• Marcum in the Middle: China, the U.S., and the PCAOB
• SEC Comment Letters Shed More Light on Reverse Factoring
• Cybersecurity Litigation Review
• Impact of Cyan: Comparing the Market Today to the Pharmaceuticals of Yesteryear
• The Five Riskiest Industries for Securities Class Action Litigation
• Six Leading Indicators of Securities Litigation
• Chinese Companies: Listed vs. Delisted in the Past Decade
• UPDATE: Where in the World is Marcum Bernstein Pinchuk?
• WEX Exemplifies Accounting Challenges that Accompany Mergers
• SEC Comment Letters and Accounting Problems Plague Contura Energy, Inc. “CTRA”
• The Party is Over at “CRON”
• Slacker Standards: SEC Exempts Even More Companies From 404(b)
• Watchdog Spotlight on HF Food Group “HFFG”
• America Runs From Luckin: Underwriting Shmunderwriting
• America Runs From Luckin: Insider Trading and Stock Pledging
• America Runs From Luckin: Corporate Governance Failures
• America Runs From Luckin: Fraud Enabled by Slack Standards
• America Runs From Luckin: Clash Over the PCAOB
• Symantec Complaint Cites Watchdog Research’s Analysis
• Symantec FLASHBACK “What happened?”
• Under Armor Goodwill Impairment Due to Coronavirus or Preexisting Conditions?
• Kraft Heinz: Complaint Alleges Fundamental Corporate Governance Problems, Accounting Shenanigans, and Insider Trading
• New Research: Gray Swan Event Factor is Predictive of Stock Return
• America Runs from Luckin: The Fraud
• We Few, We Happy Few, We Late Filers
• What Can We Learn From Late Quarterly Filings During the Coronavirus?
• Featuring a New “SEC Oversight” Flag in our Watchdog Reports
• Is it Safer to Invest in China or the U.S.?
• BorgWarner Wants to Dump Delphi. Will Delphi’s Resistance be Futile?
• Birds of A Feather: How to Tell a “Gray Swan” from a “Black Swan.”
• Under Armour III: Major CFO Change Was a Warning Sign of Litigation
• Under Armour II: CAM Raises the Specter of “Channel Stuffing”
• Under Armour I: Troubling Spike in Non-Audit Fees Went Ignored
• The Practice of Reverse Factoring Raises Transparency Concerns
• Early Retirement for Target's CFO
• Hunter Biden: Was He Paid Appropriately as an Independent Director?
• Tesla Part VI: Is Musk Truskworthy? Or Will Investors be Gored in the Latest Running of the Bulls?
• Tesla Part V: Is Tesla’s Financial Reporting Reliable?
• Tesla Part IV: SolarCity—The Zombie That Musk Can’t Get Away From
• Tesla Part III: The Smart Money Is Getting Out of Tesla
• Tesla Part II: Just How Unusual Is It For Four Directors To Decline Reelection In The Same Year?
• Tesla Part I: Another CFO Change Increases the Probability of More Problems at Tesla
• Bristol Myers Squibb/Celgene Merger: Goodwill, Opioids, and Transparency
• PayPal: Obscuring Problems from New Acquisitions
• Kraft Heinz: Warren Buffet's Dunkirk
• Marriott: 500 Million Customers Might Not Be Wrong, But They Might Be Upset
• Watchdog Concerns: ELP
• Watchdog Concerns: Crypto Corp.
• Alteryx's Late Game Auditor Change
• Halliburton's Short-Tenured CFOs
• Watchdog Concerns: Agilent
• How Much Did Honeywell's Restatement Cost Investors?
• J. Alexander’s: Steak or Fishy?
• Did GE Goose Accounting Estimates to Lay Golden Eggs?
• Tesla’s Unusual Red Flag
• Finding Red Flags in Earnings Reports after the Trump Tax Cut
• GE Insurance Charge is $6.2 Billion, Twice What the Market Expected
• Trends in Financial Restatements and Error Corrections

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