Business Wire – Scholars of Finance and Training The Street Partner to Prepare Thousands of College Students for Purpose-Driven Finance Careers SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Scholars of Finance (SOF), a rapidly-growing non-profit organization on a mission to inspire character and integrity in the finance leaders of tomorrow, has partnered with Training The Street (TTS), to help prepare thousands of undergraduate […]

Uber, Lyft Revenue Accounting Threatened by Gig Worker Proposal Uber Technologies Inc. has warned in its financial statements for two years that a potential reclassification of its drivers from independent contractors to employees would alter a key calculation it makes when it tallies the top line in its income statement. A Biden administration proposal released this week […]

Schnell brings over 20 years of sales experience to build on Training The Street’s business growth  NEW YORK, June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Training The Street (TTS), the world’s leading provider of financial training, announced today that Barry Schnell has been appointed as Chief Commercial Officer. Schnell brings over 20 years of business development experience and will be responsible […]

More Than Half Of New MBAs Will Earn Over $150K Per Year: Survey Marc Ethier Thu, June 16, 2022, 6:02 AM·4 min read   Last summer, a survey of MBA students found widespread confidence in their ability to command strong salaries in a post-pandemic world. A year later, the world isn’t quite past the coronavirus […]

Scott Rostan, Founder and CEO at Training The Street, joined Cheddar to talk about what the unwinding of the telecom giant’s Time Warner media properties means for investors. “Something I always try to teach my students is knowing the underlying businesses and staying inside your core competency is usually a recipe for success” said Rostan. […]

Size of MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin Bet Set Off SEC Accounting Alarm Scale of Bitcoin holdings made SEC zero in on company Non-GAAP measures can’t strip out key financial drivers A growing number of companies invest in Bitcoin but none to the extent of MicroStrategy Inc., which in 2021 announced that buying and holding the volatile digital […]

In a high-profile case, the sponsor of WeWork, BowX, is restating its past year’s financials to correct for classifying a portion of its shareholder equity as permanent, rather than as temporary. Published Dec. 10, 2021 A fresh wave of restatements by special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) could be coming after the Securities and Exchange Commission’s chief […]

Nov. 23, 2021, 1:45 AM; Updated: Nov. 23, 2021, 7:26 AM 160-plus SPACs announce accounting errors Regulatory scrutiny means more are likely Scores of the blank-check companies that set the IPO market ablaze in 2020 are once again stumbling over accounting errors. More than 160 SPACs have issued warnings in the last week that their past […]

Survey: MBAs Bullish About Post-Pandemic Job Prospects BY: MARC ETHIER ON JUNE 01, 2021 Confident in their prospects in a rapidly expanding economy, MBA students are optimistic about their employment prospects, according to the 13th annual MBA employment survey conducted by a company that provides training courses for Wall Street banks and financial institutions. Training […]

RIVKA ABRAMSON | APRIL 30, 2021 A SPAC, or Special Purpose Acquisition Company, is an entity with no commercial activities, built with the specific purpose of acquiring a company. SPACs are also sometimes called blank check companies. SPACs have seen some serious growth this year. By March 19, SPACs raised $87.9 billion — more than all of last year’s […]