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		<title>FASB will re-expose lease accounting draft, but looks to still issue by year end?</title>
		<link>http://bobcook1234.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/fasb-will-re-expose-lease-accounting-draft-but-looks-to-still-issue-by-year-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  This post is slightly revised from that which I posted earlier today and which I&#8217;ve retracted.  This new post results from further investigations regarding the intent of the boards.  I now do not think it is clear that FASB is trying to finalize the new lease accounting standard by the end of 2011, even though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1493&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will lease accounting be re-exposed? Should the tail wag the dog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE:  ON JULY 21, FASB AND IASB DECIDED TO RE-EXPOSE THE LEASE ACCOUNTING DRAFT.  SEE MY NEXT POST FOR DETAILS AND ANALYSIS. The second quarter of 2011 has come and gone … and FASB and IASB are still re-deliberating their proposal for a new standard for accounting for leases.  They had targeted the end of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1460&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We&#8217;ve come up with a design that puts 12,000 people in one building&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bobcook1234.wordpress.com/2011/06/09/weve-come-up-with-a-design-that-puts-12000-people-in-one-building/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:58:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not often that a CEO of a major company makes a presentation to City Council on company plans for a new headquarters building.  But Apple is no ordinary company, and Steve Jobs certainly is no ordinary CEO.  He&#8217;s not afraid of being accused of having an &#8220;ediface complex&#8221; &#8212; a concern that afflicts most other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1433&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Strategy: The Dialogue (Finally) Begins …</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 00:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark the date:  May 3rd, 2011.  That’s when, at the Corenet Global Summit in Chicago, the long overdue dialogue began.   The Breakout Session title was: “Money Talks: How Corporate Language Drives Corporate Real Estate”.   It was a freewheeling discussion … some may say “too freewheeling” … about how companies do and should … two distinctly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1400&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workshops on New Lease Accounting</title>
		<link>http://bobcook1234.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/workshops-on-new-lease-accounting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 22:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along with Grubb &#38; Ellis colleagues, I will be holding workshops on the new lease accounting in Boston (June 7), Los Angeles (June 14) and Newport Beach (June 15).  These workshops are not just on what is the new lease accounting (something that accounting firms are better at interpreting), but rather they are on what are the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1419&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answer: Best place to get to work by public transit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 23:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you old enough to remember, Johnny Carson got a lot of late-night laughs at the expense of L.A. traffic, smog and culture.  Ed McMahon would give Johnny’s Carnac an answer and Carnac would intuit the question.  It was sort of a comic Jeopardy.  . Ed:    Clean air, a virgin and a gas station [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1350&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s a LinkedIn World after all ….</title>
		<link>http://bobcook1234.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/it%e2%80%99s-a-linkedin-world-after-all-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 21:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dazzling success of LinkedIn’s IPO today took many by surprise.  Some people might be scratching their heads, saying “Linked Who?”  “Linked What?”  But LinkedIn is no stranger to those of us who have used LinkedIn to connect, learn and interact over the last few years.  Forget Facebook … too many under 25’s, over 65’s, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1330&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lease Accounting Change Still Coming; Waiting for the Fat Lady to Sing</title>
		<link>http://bobcook1234.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/lease-accounting-change-still-coming-waiting-for-the-fat-lady-to-sing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 22:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FASB and IASB are working feverishly to get their new lease accounting standard out.  They’ve admitted that they’ll miss their target date of June 2011 by a few months but claim to be as committed as ever to reform lease accounting.  Their goal: greater disclosure of lease liabilities. Over the last few months, the accounting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1312&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lease accounting update: “more likely than not” is no more</title>
		<link>http://bobcook1234.wordpress.com/2011/02/17/lease-accounting-update-%e2%80%9cmore-likely-than-not%e2%80%9d-is-no-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FASB/IASB have dropped one of the most controversial parts of their proposed lease accounting.   The Exposure Draft, released in August 2010, had called for lessees with options-to-renew to capitalize lease obligations for renewal periods that were “more likely than not” to occur.   This part of the accounting was attacked on many grounds.  First, it was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1288&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011: Year of the Rabbit …. and Decade of the Corporate Real Estate Exec</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday ends the 15-day Chinese New Year Celebration.  According to the Chinese Zodiac, we’re entering the “Year of the Rabbit”.   We may also, though, be entering the “Decade of the Corporate Real Estate Exec”, the decade in which corporate real estate execs rise to truly strategic roles in their organizations. The year 2011 will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bobcook1234.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7913507&amp;post=1273&amp;subd=bobcook1234&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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