<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Accounting</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/specials/accounting?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><description>Accounting</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[BearingPoint Raises $200 Million in Debt Offering]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10773-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10773-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ BearingPoint Inc. raised $200 million yesterday by selling debt convertible into its stock, easing a potential cash crunch at the McLean consulting firm.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contractor, Army Office Fell Short, Audit Finds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10772-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10772-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A controversial British firm responsible for a $293 million U.S. Army security contract in Iraq could not prove that its armed employees received proper weapons training or that it had vetted Iraqi employees to ensure they did not pose a threat, according to a government audit released yesterday.]]></description><author> Griff Witte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[BearingPoint Stock Falls by More Than 30 Percent]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7983-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7983-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Shares of BearingPoint Inc. plummeted more than 30 percent yesterday as investors reacted to news that the Securities and Exchange Commission had begun an informal investigation of the consulting firm's accounting procedures and the company's warning that it may run short of cash.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[BearingPoint Cites SEC Inquiry, Warns Investors]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6305-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid 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laws over a four-year period.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Court Affirms Fraud Standard]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3113-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3113-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Investors who bring corporate-fraud lawsuits must show a link between alleged illegal activity and a drop in stock prices, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday.]]></description><author> Hope Yen</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fannie Mae's Top Lawyer To Quit, Join Old Firm]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57900-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57900-2005Apr15.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fannie Mae's top legal officer is leaving the company to rejoin his former law firm, the latest in a string of executive departures as the Washington mortgage finance company undergoes sweeping changes.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bankrupt and Swamped With Credit Offers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54745-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54745-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Chapter 7 filers wipe out their debts,  card firms jump to offer them new credit cards. Under a new bankruptcy law these offers are likely to increase.]]></description><author> Caroline E. Mayer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SEC Enforcement Chief Plans to Leave Position]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55129-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55129-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The top enforcement official at the Securities and Exchange Commission said yesterday that he would resign after four tumultuous years investigating fraud at the nation's biggest companies and Wall Street investment banks.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SEC Orders GM to Provide Documents From Delphi Transactions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51780-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51780-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed General Motors Corp. to produce documents related to two transactions with auto parts supplier Delphi Corp., a former GM subsidiary whose accounting practices are under investigation, GM officials said yesterday.]]></description><author> Greg Schneider</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accountability Burden May Be Eased]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51777-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51777-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Regulators vowed to move swiftly to help ease burdens on public companies after hearing a litany of complaints yesterday about the cost of new corporate accountability rules.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nuclear Plants Not Keeping Track of Waste]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44916-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44916-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pervasive problems plague the control of radioactive waste at U.S. nuclear plants, in part because the government has been sluggish in instituting and enforcing safeguards, according to a new federal report.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies Complain to SEC About Audit Costs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38809-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38809-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Securities and Exchange Commission will hold a public meeting Wednesday to talk about ways to streamline controversial reforms that corporate executives and trade groups view as costly and unnecessarily detailed.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buffett Testimony To Clarify Gen Re Deal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38808-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38808-2005Apr8.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Around 10 o'clock Monday morning, legendary investor Warren E. Buffett will find himself in an unusual position, sitting down for an interview at the Securities and Exchange Commission's New York offices to answer questions from the SEC, federal prosecutors from the Eastern District of Virginia and investigators from New York state Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer's office.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawmakers Criticize Accounting Tactic]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35366-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35366-2005Apr7.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This year, as it has done for many years past, California officials will use an accounting strategy that will yield nearly $2 billion more in federal Medicaid payments than the state might otherwise be entitled to.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falcon Testifies on False Fannie Mae Accounting]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32845-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32845-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fannie Mae employees falsified signatures on accounting transactions that helped the company meet earnings targets for 1998, a "manipulation" that triggered multimillion-dollar bonuses for top executives, a federal regulator said Wednesday.]]></description><author> Kathleen Day  and Terence O'Hara</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Legislators to Take Up Replacing OFHEO]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28498-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28498-2005Apr5.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Congressional efforts to toughen government oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac resume Wednesday, with the mortgage finance companies politically weakened by financial scandal and their chief government nemesis leaving the stage.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara and Kathleen Day</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beyond Washington]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23909-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23909-2005Apr3.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Reid H. Weingarten and his District-based law firm, Steptoe and Johnson LLP, has opened a New York office in an effort to cement Weingarten's and the firm's reputation as forces to be reckoned with in white-collar defense and complex business litigation.]]></description><author> Brooke A. Masters</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[AIG Probes Renew Debate On Regulation]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20163-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20163-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Multiple investigations of accounting practices and questionable deals at American International Group Inc. and New York state Attorney General Eliot L. Spitzer's ongoing investigation of insurance industry practices are rekindling a long-running debate about who should police insurance companies.]]></description><author> Carrie Johnson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freddie's Profit Drops, but Share Of Market Rises]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17516-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17516-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_business/specials/accounting</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:05 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Freddie Mac issued its 2004 results yesterday, bringing its financial reporting current two years after an accounting scandal caused a massive review of its finances and the ouster of top officers.]]></description><author> Terence O'Hara</author></item></channel></rss>