The Financial Accounting Standards Board, which sets rules for U.S. companies' financial statements, and the International Accounting Standards Board, which does the same worldwide, requires companies to prepare consolidated financial statements when they hold a controlling interest -- more than 50 percent ownership -- in other businesses.
Scalawags and Carpetbaggers. Scalawags and Carpetbaggers were derogatory terms used in the aftermath of the Civil War. Scalawags referred to a group of white Republican Southerners who sympathized with the federal Reconstruction effort.
The Taggers is a swash buckling tale set in Medieval Times about Emily, a teenage princess set to marry Townsely, the son of a wealthy man. Emilyâs father, King Walter is a selfish and cruel ruler who refuses to listen to Emily when she tells him that she does not wish to marry Townsley.