General Investing >> Analyst Interviews >> February 9, 2004

ACCOUNTING STANDARDS:LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: STEPHEN PERCOCO – LARK RESEARCH

STEPHEN P. PERCOCO founded Lark Research in 1991. He is the publisher of Net Realizable Value, a newsletter that primarily tracks the residential real estate sector for institutional investors, and Income Builder, a newsletter that follows the financial markets for individual investors. Prior to 1991, Mr. Percoco was a high yield analyst at Salomon Brothers and a credit analyst at Bank of Boston. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, where he currently serves as Vice Chair of its Committee for Improved Corporate Reporting. Mr. Percoco is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Harvard Business School. Profile
TWST: Please tell us about yourself and how you became interested in

accounting and financial reporting trends.

Mr. Percoco: I've been a security analyst for 17 years or so. I became

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