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Inside The Deal: Paul Hastings' Vince Pisano on accounting standards

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With the U.S. migrating from GAAP to international accounting standards, and with recent proposals to reduce complexity, are we entering a new age of clarity in financial disclosure? It would be nice to think so. In this edition of Inside The Deal, Vince Pisano, partner at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, speaks with The Deal's Kenneth Klee about his column in TheDeal NewsWeekly about how convergence of accounting rules only emphasizes the need for the use of "plain English" in financial statements. Watch the video after the break. - Maria Woehr


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