Word: boards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Speaking in front of large signs that read, "Don't close down" and "No Columbia here," MacDonnell said the committee included members from the executive board of the Young Democrats and other organizations not specifically on the right wing...
Thursday, the Executive Board of the Student Association had a special closed meeting and resolved by a 11-2 vote that Pusey's decision to call in police was justified...
Twice, the accounting board has retreated from attempts to require more conservative bookkeeping treatment of the 7% tax credit to which companies are entitled on purchases of machinery. The board wanted to force businessmen to spread that credit over the life of the machinery instead of taking it entirely in the year of purchase. About 80% of U.S. companies use the latter method; for some, it provides the difference between profit and loss...
After a protracted wrangle with bankers, the board last month demanded that banks include in their reported profits the losses on collectible loans as well as the gains or losses on securities transactions. Until now, banks have excluded both categories from "net operating earnings." As a consequence, says Leonard M. Savoie, executive vice president of the accountants' institute, "the operating results of an entire industry are overstated. When is a loss not a loss? When it happens to a bank...
...Share Perplexity. The board's most complex decision came as it struggled to divulge what Savoie calls "ersatz earnings"-per-share profits derived from fancy financial footwork. This is a sensitive matter because many investors mistakenly believe that they can gauge a stock's merit simply by checking per-share earnings. The board ruled that companies with a complicated mix of securities may no longer merely divide their net profits by the number of shares outstanding to arrive at per-share earnings. Instead, companies must reduce the net to allow for future conversion of all warrants and some...