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		<title>Sander Abernathy Contact Information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contact Sander Abernathy at sander@sanderabernathy.com or 404 229 4045]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2010/10/03/sander-abernathy-contact-information/</link>
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		<title>Three Reasons for Concern About Housing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The US housing market continues its inexorable crawl back from the bottom of the pit.  The best news of late is that California experienced a double digit percentage increase in home prices recently.  However, there are at least three reasons for concern in my view: The homebuyer tax credit expires April 30th if a buyer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2010/03/20/three-reasons-for-concern-about-housing/</link>
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		<title>What is Quadrophobia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was an article I found interesting in the WSJ yesterday.  It details a study by Stanford law professor Joseph Grundfest, who was previously a board member of the SEC, and Nadya Malenko, a doctoral candidate at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  The study looked at reported EPS in nearly a half-million earnings reports over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2010/02/13/what-is-quadrophobia/</link>
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		<title>Trouble in the second tier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The linked article by Barrons and Propublica.org details the allegations facing two of the largest second tier firms, McGladrey &#38; Pullen (No. 5) and BDO Seidman (No. 7).  BDO Seidman already had a $522 million judgment levied against it for its audit of ES Bankest LLC; a Florida factoring firm that was looted by management.  Now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2009/08/31/trouble-in-the-second-tier/</link>
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		<title>What Happened to Archway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting NY Times article about accounting fraud at Archway which was owned by a private equity firm. It just goes to show that public companies aren&#8217;t the only ones that run into accounting problems.]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2009/06/13/what-happened-to-archway/</link>
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		<title>ED on Valuing Investments in Investment Companies with Stated NAV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FASB issued an Exposure Draft of FSP-FAS 157-G today that addresses fair value determination of an investment in an investment company when the investment has a stated NAV.  The Exposure Draft was prepared in response to comments regarding the ACSEC and Alternative Investment Task Force Issues Paper &#8220;FASB Statement No. 157 Valuation Considerations for Interests in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2009/06/08/ed-on-valuing-investments-in-investment-companies-with-stated-nav/</link>
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		<title>FASB Approves the Codification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FASB Codification Will Become Effective in Q4 2009.]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2009/06/03/fasb-approves-and-postpones-the-codification/</link>
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		<title>Prudential and FAS 157</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prudential got a half-billion dollar lift from changes to FAS 157.]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2009/06/03/prudential-and-fas-157/</link>
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		<title>Not-for-Profit Business Combinations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FASB has issued FAS 164 Not-for-Profit Entities: Mergers and Acquisitions. Business combinations in the Non-Profit sector are accounted for differently than those of for profit enterprises. As a follow on to FAS 141(R) the FASB is updating the guidance for not-for-profit entities. I&#8217;ll publish a summary of the new pronouncement shortly.]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2009/06/03/not-for-profit-business-combinations/</link>
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		<title>FIN 46(R) to be Revised Again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The FASB will be issuing new guidance this month on accounting for Variable Interest Entities.   The accounting question with respect to a VIE is whether it should be consolidated or not.  FIN 46(R) has addressed that question and the forthcoming guidance is a revision to FIN 46(R). FIN 46(R) previously required that a company perform a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sanderabernathy.com/2009/06/03/8/</link>
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