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While the Act requires a $726 million budget to implement changes, President Bush has decided instead to recommend a funding increase of just 21 percent, to $568 million. This amount is simply not sufficient for the new U.S. accounting regulatory board to operate. Even SEC Chair Harvey Pitt says that the administration’s level of financing will not allow the agency to take on key initiatives. It seems unreasonable that Bush is more than willing to invest tens of billions of dollars to fund a questionable war with Iraq when he cannot seem to scrounge up another...
...strike halted $1 billion in revenues per day, hitting Asian Pacific economies especially hard as companies like Toyota and Nissan were forced to stop production or find other ways to ship products to North America. Foes Fall Into Tough Love U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt reached a truce with New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer in their battle to look toughest on corporate misdeeds. The two will jointly focus on separating research from investment banking The Best-Laid Plans A survey by the Business Council shows that 50% of the largest U.S. companies have changed their business...
...billion in stocks and strain under $355 billion in bad loans. This may be an attempt to halt deflation, but critics dismissed it as market manipulation. A Good Man Is Hard To Find The U.S. accounting industry is now in safe regulatory hands. Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Harvey Pitt named Scott Taub to oversee the sector as deputy chief accountant. Taub had experience on the Professional Standards Group at his last firm - Enron's accountant Andersen. BOTTOM LINES "One thing I learned during my years as CEO is that perception matters." Jack Welch, former chief executive of General Electric...
...elsewhere mandating employee representation on boards The issue risks becoming a new flashpoint in trade relations between the U.S. and the European Union, already strained by disputes over steel tariffs and tax breaks for American exporters. E.U. Commissioner Frits Bolkestein complained in a letter to sec chairman Harvey L. Pitt on Aug. 29 that "the implementation of some of the provisions of the Act might have undesirable extraterritorial consequences or they might create unnecessary difficulties for European companies." Among his concerns: a new U.S. body that will oversee auditing firms will regulate non-U.S. auditors and have access...
...outgrown the place, yet her eyes well up when she talks about selling it. "I'm having moving-on anxiety," she says. "But it will be on the market when we get closer to moving into our damn home." That home is a stately mansion she and Pitt purchased in Beverly Hills for a reported $14 million. True or false? "That's something else," she says. "How expensive this mansion is. I'm not going to tell you how much it cost, but it's not..." She stops herself, feeling silly for complaining. "It's funny to me," she says...