Accounting&Finance

There is a Paralegal firm in Nevada who assists people in doing the tasks to incorporate and form a corporation.

Many of the small companies in UK are exempted by the audit obligation. So, do confirm whether an audit is compulsorily required for your company before conducting it.

1. What is Marriage?
by Sherif Girgis (Princeton University Department of Philosophy) and Robert George (Princeton University – Department of Politics) and Ryan Anderson (University of Notre Dame Department of Political Science)

2. A Quantitative Approach to Tactical Asset Allocation
by Mebane T. Faber (Cambria Investment Management)

3. The Devil in HML’s Details
by Clifford Asness (AQR Capital Management, LLC) and Andrea Frazzini (AQR Capital Management, LLC)

4. Value Investing: Investing for Grown Ups?
by Aswath Damodaran (New York University – Stern School of Business)

5. A Brief Research Note on Temasek Holdings and Singapore: Mr. Madoff Goes to Singapore
by Christopher Balding (HSBC School of Business)

Here are the latest announcements from SSRN:

Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) Joins Finance Research Centers Papers

We are pleased to announce Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) has started a Finance Research Centers Papers series within the Financial Economics Network (FEN).

COMMISSIONE NAZIONALE PER LE SOCIETÀ E LA BORSA (CONSOB) RESEARCH PAPER SERIES
View Papers: http://www.ssrn.com/link/CONSOB-RES.html

CONSOB is the Italian authority supervising financial markets. Its mission is to protect investors, ensure transparency and foster the stability and the orderly functioning of the financial system.

CONSOB Working Paper series publish studies and research with the aim of encouraging debate among academics, practitioners and policy-makers on the economics and the regulation of financial markets.

CONSOB Discussion Paper series publish policy-relevant analysis, focused on specific oversight issues.

Jason Priem asked me to give a keynote at the altmetrics12 workshop at Northwestern on 21 June. Unfortunately, the timing of #altmetrics12 isn’t very convenient. I was supposed to be on a plane on my way to #ALA12 in Anaheim. But, I think metrics are important and have written about what SSRN is doing in this space.

I have been anxious this week because I need to submit an abstract by 18 May. There are a lot of interesting things happening in metrics and I’m not sure what I’ll talk about. At first, I thought I would discuss the importance of being succinct and not using tools just because you can (e.g, Prezi vs Powerpoint) but that doesn’t seem very exciting. And the stuff happening in altmetrics is pretty exciting.

A few days ago I was interviewed at the American Anthropological Association and I said, referring to grey literature, that Grey is the New Black. I explained how my publisher friends used to ask me why anyone would want grey literature or if I thought there really was any value in it. Heck, it wasn’t peer reviewed, printed and distributed … several months to years after it had been written. I see altmetrics as being a lot like working papers 20 years ago. Maybe we should call them grey metrics …

It doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, but I know what I’m going to talk about

Dr Jan Fidrmuc, Department of Economics and Finance and Centre for Economic Development and Institutions, Brunel University

Anti-austerity protestors take to the streets in central Athens earlier this year. Getty Images

Following the rejection of EU imposed austerity measures by the overwhelming majority of Greek voters, eurozone finance ministers have once again come to Brussels to try and save the single currency in what is being described as a ‘crucial 48 hours’.

Two thirds of the Greek electorate voted for parties opposed to the austerity measures required by the European Commission, ECB and IMF as a precondition of a further bailout; despite the outgoing government pledging to adhere to these measures.

Without compromise either by the Greeks accepting austerity measures or the EU offering concessions on the proposed package, another election is inevitable. In this case the bailout package will be suspended, Greece will default on its debt and an exit from the eurozone may follow. None of this will offer much respite for the struggling Greek economy.

In the past the EU offered concessions to voters having rejected EU treaties, however this time there is little political will, and not only in Germany, to offer sweeteners to the Greeks to help them swallow the bitter pill of fiscal adjustment.

Why then are the Greeks fighting against the support from the EU? And should the rest of the EU let them resist or should they be offered a sweeter deal after all?

London is acquiring a dangerous reputation for US financial institutions.

The financial crisis in 2008 was set off by the London-based derivatives unit of American International Group, which was insuring potential losses for banks. Now, JP Morgan Chase finds itself in trouble over a $ 2bn hedging/trading loss in London.

Facebook investors: you have been warned. The last time I was in Silicon Valley was 12 years ago, in the very week that the Nasdaq crashed, marking the end of the dotcom boom. That I should fly back into San Francisco on the eve of the social network’s initial public offering cannot be a good omen.

I’m not here to write about Facebook – for expert insights, read the analysis of my San Francisco-based colleagues or the FT Lex team – but the IPO overshadows most discussions. What strikes me is how entrepreneurs, technology executives and analysts I’ve met are reluctant to talk publicly about Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. Ask them what they think about him and they tend to preface their remarks with a polite request that this part of the interview should be off the record.

Therefore, you need to be careful and prepare the payroll with utmost care. In fact, you can even toy with the idea of outsourcing payroll services to professional firms.

This February, as JPMorgan Chase financial traders in London were building a credit derivatives position that would soon cost the bank $ 2bn, Jamie Dimon was otherwise occupied. He was on a 550-mile bus ride through Florida.