... on auditors and changes the structure of the development of accounting standards Ironically, the U.S SecuritiesandExchangeCommission (SEC) andthe accounting profession debated many of the same ... accounting profession andthe SEC sought to work together to resolve the growing independence issue For instance, the joint development by the SEC andthe AICPA of the Independence Standards Board (ISB) ... design of accounting standards and monitoring of adherence tothe standards The designation “certified public accountant” (CPA) gives the holder the legal right to attest tothe conformity of a...
... Established in 1934 to enforce thesecurities laws and protect investors, theSecuritiesandExchangeCommission (SEC) plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of the U.S securities markets ... of GAO-09-173, a report to Chairman, United States SecuritiesandExchangeCommissionSecuritiesandExchangeCommission' s Financial Statements for Fiscal Years 2008 and 2007 Why GAO Did This ... 2002, SEC is required to prepare and submit to Congress andthe Office of Management and Budget audited financial statements GAO agreed, under its audit authority, to perform the audit of SEC’s...
... Washington, DC 20548 Tothe Chairman of the United States SecuritiesandExchangeCommission In our audits of the United States SecuritiesandExchangeCommission (SEC) for fiscal years 2010 and ... Pursuant tothe Accountability of Tax Dollars Act of 2002, the United States SecuritiesandExchangeCommission (SEC) is required to prepare and submit to Congress andthe Office of Management and ... Years 2010 and 2009 Committee on Oversight and Government Reform We are also sending copies tothe Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and other interested...
... provisions of the following laws and regulations: theSecuritiesExchange Act of 1934, as amended; theSecurities Act of 1933, as amended; the Antideficiency Act; laws governing the pay and allowance ... pursuant totheSecuritiesExchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) It is headed by a bipartisan five-member Commission, comprised of the Chairman and four Commissioners, who are appointed by the President ... functions to assure that investors have access to materially complete and accurate information, andto deter fraud and misrepresentation in the public offering, trading, voting, and tendering of securities...
... component The agencies also must work together to define other key terms They are writing rules that address, among other issues, mandatory clearing, the end-user exception to mandatory clearing and ... retail customers (and other customers as determined by the SEC) The Act requires that this standard be “no less stringent” than the standard applicable to investment advisers and further gives the ... in order to enhance investor understanding of a fund’s asset mix and how the mix is expected to change as the investor’s retirement approaches and thereafter • Asset-Backed SecuritiesThe SEC...
... addition tothe financial reports used to monitor and control budgetary resources, which are prepared from the same books and records The statements should be read with the understanding that they ... 2.3: The SEC adopts and administers rules and regulations that enable market participants to understand clearly their obligations under thesecurities laws MEASURE 7: Length of time to respond to ... million The SEC fosters compliance with the federal securities laws The SEC promptly detects violations of the federal securities laws The SEC prosecutes violations of federal securities laws and...
... related to risk assessment and monitoring andthe SEC’s FBWT The agency’s efforts to remediate these two areas is described further below Risk Assessment and Monitoring Process As mentioned above, the ... the Treasury Financial Manual, developed new standard operating procedures, and automated the reconciliations to reduce input errors and streamline the effort The agency also fully resolved the ... Control Board on the basis of cost, benefits, and risk tothe agency Future system upgrades will be documented to show both the impact on security and evidence of approval by the Board The agency also...
... established the need for two new additional TAFS in the SEC fund accounting structure: theSecuritiesandExchangeCommission Investor Protection Fund (Investor Protection Fund) andtheSecuritiesandExchange ... penalties, and pre-judgment and post-judgment interest Orders can identify whether the resulting proceeds are to be held on behalf of harmed investors or whether they are to be remitted tothe Treasury ... facility provided by the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), pending their distribution to investors The SEC adds interest earned tothe funds, and these funds are subject to taxation under Treasury...
... public integrity: the Office of Inspector General The OIG reports directly tothe Chairman, and it hires interns each semester TheCommission encourages applications because the OIG serves an ... exposure tothe various divisions and offices of theCommission Students interning in the Office of Inspector General may be assigned to assist both the audit and investigations units of the Office ... various divisions and offices Interns are assigned to a specific division or office and not rotate The start dates and application dates at the top of this page are for the Washington, DC program...
... 19(h), and 21 of [the Exchange Act], the term ‘member’ when used with respect to a national securitiesexchange also means, tothe extent of the rules of theexchange specified by the Commission, ... transmitted tothe central repository, the repository must be able to efficiently and accurately link together all lifecycle events for the same order, and make available to regulators this linked ... been modified to include a mandate that in determining whether to approve the NMS plan and whether the NMS plan is in the public interest, theCommission must consider the impact of the NMS plan...
... title tothe product has passed tothe buyer: The buyer has the right to return the product and: (a) the buyer does not pay the seller at the time of sale, andthe buyer is not obligated to pay the ... purposes.23 In these arrangements, the seller delivers a product to a customer, andthe customer agrees to receive the product, solely to give the customer the ability to evaluate the delivered ... enters into an arrangement with Customer A to deliver Company Z's products to Customer A on a consignment basis Pursuant tothe terms of the arrangement, Customer A is a consignee, and title to the...
... serve to further the agency’s mission and allow for accurate and reliable information to be made available to investors In FY 2013, theCommission will work to strengthen the administration of the ... 2013, theCommission aims to continue to strengthen the administration of the federal securities laws, implement the new regulatory structure set forth under the Dodd-Frank Act, and review other ... Funds: TheCommission is considering structural reforms to money market funds to lessen their susceptibility to runs, andto enhance the protections afforded to money market fund investors These...
... France andthe UK exhibiting a mixed picture of a few strengths and a few weaknesses The fact that the smaller economies such as Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden appear to be the most ... form, sector or location, are to have the potential to grow and develop so as to contribute tothe overall goal To survive in the new competitive environment, no enterprise can afford to stand still ... Member States andtheCommission Since then, the trend towards globalisation andthe knowledge-driven economy, exemplified by the rise of the Internet, has accelerated As recognised by the Lisbon...
... tests, the b-test reportsthe significance of either the money-center variable or the post-October 1979 variable The a-test reportsthe F-value for the joint test that the coefficients of both the ... insignificant in both the unexpected and actual value estimations This is due tothe diffusion of the market factor by the interest andexchange rate risk factors within the context of a multifactor model ... vector of expected stock returns at time t, F is a vector of risk factors with mean zero and unitary variance, S is a matrix of the sensitivity coefficients tothe risk factors, and z is a vector...