In 2002, the federal government mandated that corporate boards of directors include at least one audit committee financial expert to help avert future accounting scandals. The title and description of that position, however, might have an on of

With the second-quarter corporate earnings season nearly over, new research from theStanford University Graduate School of Businessexamines the usefulness of financial statement and market data for investors who want to ascertain the likelihood 1

Wheatland Bank, of Spokane, says it has added wealth management services and has hired veteran financial adviser to lead the launch of the new business line.Newly created Wheatland Wealth Management is an in-house brokerage and financial of Bank

Northwest Bancorporation Inc., the Spokane-based parent of Inland Northwest Bank, has reported second-quarter net income available to common shareholders of $1 million, or 33 cents a diluted share, up from about $120,000, or 4 cents a share, in the

Although economic growth has been constrained in recent quarters, it will accelerate later this year and into 2014 as external pressures and fiscal drag ease, says the economic advisory committee of the American Bankers Association.According to