Yesterday, FEI released its Top 12 Advocacy Issues for 2012.
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Following are some highlights from the 2012 SEC Speaks conference, held last week by PLI.
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We have been tweeting some highlights from today's/tomorrow's PLI SEC Speaks conference, on our twitter account, www.twitter.com/feiblog (@feiblog).
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FEI's Government Affairs office has prepared a summary of the House Ways and Means Committee's Feb. 8, 2012 hearing on: The Interaction of Tax and Financial Accounting on Tax Reform.
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Following on yesterday's post - Will SEC Speak On IFRS This Week? - which noted remarks by SEC Chief Accountant Jim Kroeker in and around an IFRS Advisory Council meeting in London earlier this week, ascribing an 'optimistic' attitude about SEC's impending decision on IFRS (as cited by Reuters' Huw Jones), and a sense that the U.S. 'nears an accounting shift' ( according to WSJ's Michael Rapoport), there are some other significant developments announced during the past few months, and the past month in particular, that indicate the IASB and FASB are gearing up to position themselves, and assist in positioning a favorable decision (favorable to each of the respective standard-setters) by the SEC, on the question of whether, when and how to permit or require the 'use of IFRS' by U.S. public companies
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