All Initial Public Offerings articles
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Article
Challenges for SPACs: Public company, now what?
Special purpose acquisition company transactions have unique risks and require awareness of what it takes to operate as a public business. Internal controls, governance, technology, and more are essential.
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Article
FINRA 2022 exam report highlights Reg BI compliance, AML trends, more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s annual report on examinations and risk monitoring contains insights on issues the organization uncovered regarding broker-dealers’ compliance with Regulation Best Interest during the rule’s first full year in existence.
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Webcast
CPE Webcast: IPO prep & SOX compliance: Instacart, Armanino share hard-earned knowledge
Hear from compliance and SOX subject matter experts at Armanino and Instacart on what pre-IPO companies should know, plan for, and do to ready their organization for going public.
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Audit report: Assessing risk landscape for IPOs
An initial public offering presents significant opportunities for market participants that are accompanied by equally notable governance risks, new research from Audit Analytics explores.
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Study: SPACs surge shakes up first-quarter IPO market
Because of the recent SPACs craze, the first quarter of 2021 saw the highest IPO activity in U.S. markets in at least 20 years, according to Audit Analytics. David Bukzin, leader of the SPAC team at Marcum, provides context.
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SPACs are big-risk, big-reward investments that can give compliance fits
Once a moribund and little-used method to bring a private company public, SPACs dominated the market in 2020 and the first three months of this year. With the trend have come new risks for compliance.
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Blog
Could revenue rule chill IPOs in 2018? Poll suggests maybe
A Deloitte poll suggests new revenue recognition accounting requirements taking effect next year may put a chill on initial public offerings.