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Peoplesoft Gives Ford the Ability to Operate Globally as One Company, With Accounting, Analysis, GAAP Reporting, and Statutory Reporting on One System
White Papers Ford Motor Company was running a disparate combination of local and regional accounting systems that created architectural and administrative barriers to the smooth operation of Ford's global finances.
[March 4, 2005, 23:00]
AcQuest HQ Depreciation
Downloads HQ Depreciation will simultaneously calculate and keep records of federal and GAAP depreciation. Prints separate reports for federal and GAAP depreciation. Supports most deprecation methods, including MACRS, 150% MACRS, MACRS straight line, ACRS...
[May 1, 2008, 8:00]
Strong quarter for Oracle as it nears Sun buy
News On a non-GAAP basis, Oracle said on Thursday it had earnings of 39 cents a share, 3 cents better than Wall Street estimates. It projected GAAP earnings of 36 to 38 cents a share, or 30 to 33 cents a share in constant currency.
[December 18, 2009, 16:58]
Industry maps out security blueprint for business
News The Generally Accepted Information Security Principles (GAISP), launched at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, are intended as a set of guidelines like the Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) that US corporations follow when they...
[April 17, 2003, 9:54]
Apple explains its accounting conundrum
News Further, GAAP does not tell companies how to run their business," he wrote in an email. To be certain, GAAP does not require companies to charge customers," said Gerard Carney, a spokesman for the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which...
[January 22, 2007, 8:40]
Adobe sees increase in customer demand
News Non-Gaap earnings were $206.8m, or 39 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting non-Gaap earnings of 37 cents a share. Adobe said on Tuesday it saw an "improvement in customer demand" in the fourth quarter, as it wound down a difficult fiscal year.
[December 16, 2009, 16:42]
Oracle delivers solid third quarter
News Oracle added that non-GAAP earnings were 35 cents a share compared to Wall Street estimates of 32 cents a share. Oracle expects non-GAAP earnings in the fourth quarter to be 42 cents a share to 46 cents a share assuming current rates for the US...
[March 19, 2009, 14:47]
McAfee buys security-in-the-cloud provider MX Logic
News Non-Gaap earnings in the second quarter were 60 cents a share, three cents better than expectations. Non-Gaap earnings will be 58 cents a share to 62 cents a share. Wall Street was expecting non-Gaap earnings of 59 cents a share on revenue of $477.7m.
[July 31, 2009, 16:03]
Sun's bright future according to McNealy
News It doesn't help that GAAP is a random walk through irrelevancy right now and that the media's primary guideline for quoting financials is GAAP, when we're 16 straight years of cash-flow positive from operations.
[June 27, 2005, 12:05]
eBay to lay off 10pc of its workforce
News The company, scheduled to report third-quarter results on 15 October, said on Monday that it expects to hit the low end of its revenue guidance, and exceed GAAP and non-GAAP earnings per share.eBay said in July that it expected net revenues of...
[October 7, 2008, 10:11]
Amazon posts first profit
News For the Seattle-based company to post what some analysts would call a real profit under GAAP is quite a turnabout. Amazon had been blasted by accounting critics for being the poster child for pro forma accounting before it began reconciling its...
[January 22, 2002, 13:17]
Why the iPhone is so valuable to Apple
News Those numbers, however, are not included as part of Apple's official quarterly results because of the way the company chooses to account for the sale of each iPhone; Apple reported just $806m (£500m) in iPhone and Apple TV revenue for its fourth...
[October 22, 2008, 13:08]
SAP withholds outlook as profits fall
News In a statement, SAP said: "In light of the uncertainties surrounding the current economic and business environment, the company decided to no longer provide a specific outlook for non-GAAP [Generally Accepted Accounting Principles] software and...
[October 29, 2008, 6:30]
CA says its results will contain no surprises
News The company said it had earnings per share not under GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) in the range of 17 cents per share to 18 cents per share for the fourth quarter, and non-GAAP earnings per share of between 60 cents per share and...
[May 7, 2004, 16:55]
HP buys EDS for £7.1bn
News Revenue earned was $28.3bn, or GAAP diluted earnings per share of 80 cents (41 pence). That compares with $25.5bn in the same quarter a year ago, or GAAP diluted earnings per share of 65 cents. HP said on Tuesday that it will acquire computer...
[May 13, 2008, 15:28]
Apple profits rocket but outlook 'challenging'
News Apple is using a non-GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) reporting method to outline the deferred revenue amounts, which are meant to provide a picture of what iPhone sales would look like if Apple recognised all the revenue from the...
[October 22, 2008, 8:14]
Interesting
Talkback Especially the part that reads: "There's absolutely nothing in the GAAP requirements that says Apple must charge its customers for that software upgrade. So why is it only Apple who is charging?
[January 22, 2007, 10:36]
Accounting for Employee Benefits Under IFRS: An IFRS Publication
White Papers This paper highlights some of the significant differences between International Accounting Standard (IAS) 19 and US generally accepted accounting principles (US GAAP) for post-employment benefits, including pensions and other post-retirement...
[November 14, 2009, 0:21]
Cisco may gain from old inventory
News Swieringa said the pendulum is swinging back to GAAP accounting now that the Enron meltdown has made Wall Street skittish. In November, Cisco reported first-quarter results that topped estimates, but the networking giant disclosed that an "excess...
[February 1, 2002, 13:16]
Managing Transition to International Financial Reporting Standards
White Papers Discrepancies among reports based on different standards must be accounted for and explained, reporting must satisfy multiple sets of local and country GAAP, and statutory reporting must remain consistent with accurate management reporting.
[November 25, 2009, 9:47]
