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UAFRS vs As Reported Weekly Highlights - 2018 05 16

This week, Valens identified distortions and the corresponding adjustments to correct for those distortions for EEFT, ICFI, and AME.
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AMETEK Inc.

AMETEK is a manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices. Electronic Instruments operating group is engaged in the design and manufacture of analytical, test and measurement instruments for the process, aerospace, medical, research, power and industrial markets. This segment includes process and analytical instrumentation markets and products, and aerospace and power instrumentation markets and products. Electromechanical operating group is engaged in supplying automation solutions, thermal management systems, metals and electrical interconnects. This segment includes automation and engineered solutions markets and products; and aerospace markets and products.

Euronet Worldwide Inc.

Euronet Worldwide is an electronic payments provider. The company provides payment and transaction processing and distribution solutions to financial institutions, retailers, service providers and individual consumers. The company operates three segments: Electronic Financial Transaction Processing, which processes transactions for a network of automated teller machines and point-of-sale terminals; epay, which provides distribution and processing of prepaid mobile airtime and other electronic content and payment processing services for various prepaid products, cards and services; and Money Transfer, which provides consumer-to-consumer and global account-to-account money transfer services.

ICF International Inc.

ICF International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company engages in services including: Advisory Services, which research policy, industry, and stakeholder issues, trends, and behavior and provide planning and advice; Program Implementation Services, which provide policies, plans, programs, and business tools to match its clients' business context; Analytics Services, which conduct survey research and collect and analyze data to understand issues and options for its clients; Digital Services, which provide technology systems and business tools; and Engagement Services, which inform and engage its clients' constituents, customers, and employees to drive behavior and outcomes.

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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
  • Utter lack of willingness of major research firms to employ the the most advanced forensic analysis available

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  • Stock analysts continue to make recommendations with deeply inherent biases
  • Research firms have failed to break down the walls between credit, equity, and macroeconomic research
  • 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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