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Nearly two years after the onset of the largest financial crisis since the
Great Depression, former Fed chairman Paul Volcker said of the "Governance
of Financial Institutions" report, "This summary of the discussions is a
kind of masterpiece in clarity and not many discussions of this arca...
Past Projects
This 2005 Assembly addressed the issues of competition among audit firms and
emerging threats to the auditing profession. The meeting grew out of the
2002 Assembly, “The Future of the Accounting Profession.” Participants
expressed some concern with the degree of concentration in the...
In the wake of several public accounting scandals and the subsequent demise
of one of the nation’s largest accounting firms, The American Assembly
convened this timely meeting, November 13-15, 2003 in Leesburg
Virginia. “The Future of the Accounting Profession” brought
together over ...
Thanks to personal computers and the Internet, the potential to copy and
circulate works of art--from music and journalism to rock videos and feature
films--is a given. In 2002 The American Assembly sought to engage in the
discussion about this unprecedented situation and the arguments for a...
Publications
Retooling for Growth: Building a 21st Century Economy in America’s Older
Industrial Areas, articulates the perspectives and policy recommendations of
dozens of diverse policy experts, government officials, business and thought
leaders on a key and vexing question for presidential hopefuls an...
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is the first independent, large-scale
study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus
on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia.
Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, Media Piracy in
Emerg...
The bedrock of our commercial system is reliable accounting. Without high
quality accounting standards, the lifeblood of capital cannot be efficiently
allocated to its best use in building and sustaining the economy.
Participants in this Assembly agreed that the accounting profession has ...
This 2005 Assembly addressed the issues of competition among audit firms and
emerging threats to the auditing profession. The meeting grew out of the
2002 Assembly, “The Future of the Accounting Profession.” Participants
expressed some concern with the degree of concentration in the...
Nearly two years after the onset of the largest financial crisis since the
Great Depression, governments around the world sought both better regulation
of financial institutions and greater global coordination among regulators to
prevent a relapse. On November 4, 2009, fifty-one prominent men...
Participants in the "Tort Law and the Public Interest" Assembly found that
tort adjudication can be unpredictable, protracted, and costly with uneven
compensation. They supported voluntary alternatives to tort litigation,
including mediation and arbitration but were sharply divided over caps ...
