Wednesday, July 23, 2008

How to Reduce Financial Reporting Complexity


Date: Wednesda, September 10, 2008
Time: 2:00 P.M. ET
Duration: 1 hour

How could financial reporting be different? How could it be made better, and less complex?


In late August, the Securities and Exchange Commission's Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting (CIFR) will wrap up its year-long project to answer these questions.

CFO.com will sit down with MFS Investment Management chairman Robert Pozen, who served as the chairman of CIFR, for a one-on-one discussion about the profound effect this report will have on the way companies collect, compile and report their financial information.

The SEC established the Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting, known as CIFR or the "Complexity Committee," last July. It comprises 17 experts from academia, banking, law, Wall Street, and Corporate America.

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