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U.S. Corporate Taxation Reform From An International Perspective, Hugh Ault Aug 2002

U.S. Corporate Taxation Reform From An International Perspective, Hugh Ault

Hugh J. Ault

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Enron, Accounting, And Lawyers, Matthew J. Barrett Dec 2001

Enron, Accounting, And Lawyers, Matthew J. Barrett

Matthew J. Barrett

Enron's collapse painfully illustrates the importance of financial accounting to all lawyers. Accounting is often referred to as "the language of business." Virtually every lawyer represents businesses, their owners, or clients with adverse legal interests, such as creditors and customers. Especially after Enron, lawyers cannot competently represent clients if they do not grasp certain basic principles about accounting. This article lists the top ten accounting lessons that any lawyer could learn from the scandal. These lessons include the components of a complete set of financial statements, the choices inherent in generally accepted accounting principles, the distortions possible in pro forma …


Publicly Financed Sports Facilities: Are They Economically Justifiable? A Case Study Of The Los Angeles Staples Center, Matthew J. Parlow Dec 2001

Publicly Financed Sports Facilities: Are They Economically Justifiable? A Case Study Of The Los Angeles Staples Center, Matthew J. Parlow

Matthew Parlow

The last twenty years have seen an unprecedented growth in the number of new sports facilities for professional sports teams. This incidence has been matched by an equally extraordinary trend of state and local governments providing public financing to help build such facilities. This article analyzes this burgeoning area of urban economic redevelopment and attempts to answer the controversial question of whether the public financing of new sports facilities is economically justifiable. The article dissects the real estate and financial deals between state and local governments and the professional sports teams and developers, and critiques the alleged benefits that advocates …