by Roger Longman
In early December, 1998, Alkermes Inc. , the Cambridge, MA-based drug delivery firm, was in the midst of negotiations...
The FASB Nightmare
FASB and the SEC, anxious to harmonize US accounting practices and clarify corporate earnings filings, are proposing reporting changes which will further beleaguer already desperate medical start-ups and rock large company growth plans. They're already tightening the rules on write-offs for in-process R&D following acquisitions and they've proposed eliminating both pooling of interest mergers and off-P&L financing techniques, like SWORDs and SPARCs.
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