President Roosevelt allegedly issued this quip after having engaged in a lengthy exchange with a visiting business delegation. While the story (true or not) may be apocryphal, it illuminates a fundamental confusion that surrounds lobbying: What is it? How does it work? When is it used? And why...

The ultimate objective of financial reporting is to provide transparent financial statements and disclosures that meet the informational needs of investors and other users of financial statements. One of the primary goals of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (USHR 2002) is to provide more reliable...

This paper examines the role and function of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) noting whether or not it is a constitutional entity as well as how it's over zealous regulations cause the creation of Auditing Standard No. 5 (AS 5) an Audit Internal Control over Financial...