From the World's Leading
Accounting Firm, A Blueprint for the Future of Corporate Reporting
"PricewaterhouseCoopers
should be commended for its forward thinking on this subject. They have been promoting the
benefits of greater corporate transparency long before Enron. We are impressed with their
refreshingly candid views on the obligations of corporations, accountants, standard
setters, and regulators. Their three-tier model of corporate transparency for building
investor confidence in corporate reporting is yet another contribution for how to make
this happen."
-John Connors
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Microsoft
Table of Contents:
Foreword.
Preface.
Subject Matter Experts.
Acknowledgments.
Prologue.
Three Tiers.
Accounting Standards.
Industry Standards.
Good Management.
Corporate Reporting.
The Internet.
Future Audits.
Epilogue.
Index.
208 Pages Hardcover
SAMUEL A. DiPIAZZA jr. is the
CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, the global professional services firm with some 150,000
employees, operating in virtually every country worldwide. Mr. DiPiazza has enjoyed a long
career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, which he joined in 1973. He most recently served as
Senior Partner and Chairman of the U.S. firm with executive responsibility for U.S.
operations.
ROBERT G. ECCLES is founder and president of Advisory Capital Partners, Inc. (ACP), and a
Senior Fellow of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Since 1993, ACP has provided strategic,
financial, and organizational advisory services to both large companies and fast-growing
small and medium-sized ones. Prior to founding ACP, Dr. Eccles was a full professor at
Harvard Business School, where he was a faculty member for fourteen years, receiving
tenure in 1989.