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Input To Smaller Companies: Grow Up!
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Posted by: Jack Ciesielski 8/31/2005 6:39 AM
At the beginning of the month, I mentioned the SEC Advisory Committee on Smaller Public Companies and their effort to gather inputs about the rigors of regulatory life for corporate small fry.

The Committee was also "very interested" in hearing from investors. Hopefully they hear from them - but I also hope that they aren't simply mouthpiecing the same tripe they've heard from managements. So, I spent much of Monday offering my views through their questionnaire. It's not yet visible on the SEC's website, but I posted the whole shebang on the main Analyst's Accounting Observer site. If you're interested, you can get directly to the response here.

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It's official: the State of Maryland has declared August 26 to September 5 to be "the Eleven Best Days of Summer." For once I agree with them: it's State Fair time in Timonium, about ten minutes from my home. About an hour and a half last night was the perfect antidote to being cooped up in an air-conditioned office clacking away at a keyboard for days on end: familiar faces, not seen often enough; fair food like a smoked turkey drumstick and a frozen chocolate-covered banana; exhibits of prized crops and wonderful things you take for granted, like honey. And the smell: the aroma of baking funnel cakes, mixed with the smoke from the barbecue pits. It's a perfume that hits you once a year and reminds you that winter, with its sterile but pure air, is lurking in the coming weeks. The animal pens are another antidote: stroking a hairy four-legged prize winner is a welcome difference from stroking a plastic keyboard. But the smell of the animal pens does bring you back to earth: it's really close to the smell emitted from the whole big company/small company brouhaha now being stirred up by the AICPA.
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