September 15, 2003—Just a few short months ago, Dell (DELL) and CIT (CIT) were both pretty adamant that Dell Fianancial Services, an off-balance sheet joint-venture designed to finance Dell equipment, didn't belong to either company, despite new accounting rules that seemed to require one of the companies to own up. But in ...

September 14, 2003—You gotta love it when a company with a nearly $2 billion market cap whines like a four-year old over a change in accounting rules that they perceive to be unfair. But that's exactly what Hovnanian Enterprises (HOV) is doing in its 10-Q filed late Friday. Management believes that the new rules on ...

September 2, 2003—The World Wrestling Federation (WWF) has apparently decided that it's better to kiss and make up, rather than continue to thrash around in the ring. In the footnotes to a 10-Q filed late Friday, the company said it had reached a Memorandum of Understanding with a group of investors who had filed a suit ...

September 1, 2003—It was right around this time last year when Inktomi -- once a high-flying Internet search engine whose stock traded over $200 a share -- was forced into a real estate squeeze play. During the Internet boom, Inktomi inked a synthetic lease deal with Deutsche Bank that enabled the company to keep the cost ...