An edition of The number
(2003)
The number
how the drive for quarterly earnings corrupted Wall Street and corporate America
1st ed.
by Alex Berenson
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Examines how companies have put too much emphasis on "the number," companies' quarterly earnings, and lost track of their true purpose of building profititable businesses, which has led to accounting fraud and the recent corporate scandals.
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Prévention, Comptabilité, Rechnungslegung, Entreprises, Vérification comptable, Corrupt practices, Pratiques déloyales, Financial statements, Corporations, Accounting, Auditing, Konzern, Prevention, Korruption, Corporations, accounting, Corporations, corrupt practices, Corporations, united statesPlaces
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The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America
April 13, 2004, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Table of Contents
Prologue : One of many --
Introduction : System failure -- -- pt. 1.
That was then ... -- -- ch. 1.
Boom and bust -- -- ch. 2.
Foundations -- -- ch. 3.
Bubbling under -- -- ch. 4. The
death of equities -- -- pt. 2.
... this is now -- -- ch. 5.
Countdown -- -- ch. 6. The
number is born -- -- ch. 7.
Options -- -- ch. 8.
Accountants at the trough -- -- ch. 9.
Archaeologists and detectives -- -- ch. 10.
Frenzy -- -- ch. 11.
Truth --
Conclusion: Look both ways -- -- appendix 1.
Accrual versus cash accounting -- -- appendix 2.
Balance sheets and income statements --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-249) and index.
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