Turns out, under GAAP merger accounting, CBI didn't have to record the new lower profitability estimate as a charge against profits. Instead, ...

News Stroock's Merger Talks Face Pension and Accounting System Hurdles The New York law firm has been in talks with Squire, McGuireWoods and Steptoe.

Accounting firm M&A specialist Allan Koltin predicts a mega-merger will take place within the profession before the end of the year. Speaking at the 2009 Forum on Recruiting and Retention in Chicago ...

LONDON -- The group responsible for setting international accounting standards is unveiling proposals for merger accounting that in some ways are tougher than the existing U.S. approach. The move ...

The standards body that sets U.S. accounting rules last week reaffirmed an earlier decision to eliminate the “pooling of interests” method of accounting favored by merger artists within the ...

In the past three years, Russell Shapiro, a partner at law firm Levenfeld Pearlstein in Chicago, has structured and negotiated more than half the mergers among the 200 largest accounting firms.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) has voted unanimously to approve an accounting rule change that could deliver a blow to corporations that pursue acquisitions of technology firms ...