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Bank Of Japan
Japan's Central Bank
Business Accounting Council
Japan: Panel set up by the Financial Services Agency to look at financial reporting issues.
The preparation of reliable published financial statements, including interim and condensed financial statements and selected financial data derived from such statements, such as earnings releases, reported publicly.
Livedoor
Japanese company at the centre of a corporate governance scandal. Can be seen as the equivalent of World-Com or Enron as it is used as evidence of the need for a Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley type legislation on internal controls over financial reporting.
Nikkei 225
Benchmark index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Seibu Railway Co.
Japanese company at the centre of a corporate governance scandal. Can be seen as the equivalent of World-Com or Enron as it is used as evidence of the need for a Japanese Sarbanes-Oxley type legislation on internal controls over financial reporting.
SOX
Shorthand for Sarbanes-Oxley.
TSE
Tokyo Stock Exchange
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