UAFRS vs As Reported Weekly Highlights - 2019 11 21
This week, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for EGHT, AAXN, and AVYA.8x8 is a cloud provider of enterprise Software-as-a-Service communications solutions, that enable businesses of all sizes to communicate across voice, video meetings, chat and contact centers. From one proprietary cloud technology platform, customers have access to unified communications, team collaboration, video conferencing, contact center, data and analytics and other services. The 8x8 technology platform provides customers with primary technology integrations within their existing infrastructure. The company provides a variety of stand alone services and offerings including 8x8 Virtual Office; 8x8 Contact Center; 8x8 Meetings; 8x8 Team Messaging; and Script8? (Scripting Engine).
Avaya Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides digital communications products, solutions and services. The company has two segments: Products and Solutions, which encompasses the company's unified communications and contact center platforms, applications and devices; and Services, which consists of three business areas: Global Support Services, Enterprise Cloud and Managed Services, and Professional Services. The company sells directly via its worldwide sales force and indirectly through its global network of channel partners, including distributors, service providers, dealers, value-added resellers, systems integrators and business partners that provide sales and services support.
Axon Enterprise is provider of law enforcement technology solutions. The company's operations are comprised of two reportable segments: TASER, which is focused on development, manufacture and sale of conducted energy weapons, also known as conducted energy devices, which the company sells under its brand name, TASER; and software and sensors, which is focused on-officer body (Axon Body and Flex) and in-car (Axon Fleet) cameras as well as cloud-based digital evidence management software (Evidence.com), as well as develops, manufactures and sells hardware and cloud-based software solutions that enable law enforcement to capture, store, manage, share and analyze video and other digital evidence.
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- GAAP and IFRS have failed to provide rules for reliable financial statement reporting
- Stock analyst recommendations are not grounded in disciplined financial analysis
- Credit agencies have been set up to grossly fail in their responsibilities to investors and the public markets
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- The governing accounting bodies have created more leeway for mis-estimates and mis-classifications as financials have become unwieldy and overwhelming
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