No. 29-1, January 2018

Index

• A Closer Look at Comfort and Verification Letters
• Defined Benefit Pension Plans: Blue‐Chip Benchmark
• Defining and Quantifying the Pension Liabilities of Government Entities in the United States
• FASB Completes its Financial Instruments Project with the Issuance of Targeted Improvements to Hedge Accounting
• Finance and Accounting Professionals and Cybersecurity Awareness
• Impact of Ownership Patterns and Firm Life‐Cycle Stages on Firm Performance: Evidence From India
• Implications of Clawback Adoption in Executive Compensation Contracts: A Survey of Recent Research
• Issue Information
• Journals
• Letter From the Editor
• Managers' and Auditors' Responsibilities for Evaluating Going Concern
• Nine More Ways to Reduce the CEO's Power of Authority
• Prescriptive Financial Transformation—What Every CFO Should Know
• Replacing LIBOR: Is BTFR the Right Choice?
• Sick of Data
• Tax Issues to Be Aware Of
• Tax Relief Provisions for Disaster Losses
• The Commission Under a New Administration
• The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers
• Ultimate Costs of the Disaster: Seven Years After the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
• What Weekly Sparklines Could Add to Financial Statements