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Financial gatekeepers : can they protect investors? /

"Looks at the effectiveness and discusses the appropriateness for further refinement of frameworks designed by policymakers to strengthen investor confidence in corporate financial reporting, especially in the United States and Japan"--Provided by publisher

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fuchita, Yasuyuki, 1958-, Litan, Robert E., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Washington, D.C. : Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research ; Brookings Institution Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Financial statements > United States.
Financial statements > Japan.
Corporations > United States > Accounting.
Corporations > Japan > Accounting.
Disclosure of information > United States.
Disclosure of information > Japan.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0815729820
9780815729822
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Yasuyuki Fuchita and Robert E. Litan
  • Financial gatekeepers in Japan / Yasuyuki Fuchita ; comment by Paul Stevens
  • How and why credit rating agencies are not like other gatekeepers / Frank Portnoy ; comment by Justin Pettit
  • Maintaining the value and viability of auditors as gatekeepers under SOX : an auditing master proposal / Zoe-Vonna Palmrose ; comment by Peter Wallison
  • Analyzing the analysts after the global settlement / Lesli Boni ; comment by George Perry
  • Conclusion / John Coffee.

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