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Salon.com January 28, 2002 Michael Drummond |
Class-action warrior When corporations run amok and accountants are shredding documents, who ya gonna call? Try lawyer Bill Lerach...  |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2002 John S. McClenahen |
Pro Forma's Bottom Line Be careful what you say and how you say it. The Financial Executives International, Morristown, N.J., and the National Investor Relations Institute, Vienna, Va., have come up with guidelines for clear and consistent public statements of corporate earnings. Five key suggestions...  |
Salon.com January 23, 2002 Christopher Ketcham |
Enron's human toll How employees of the energy trader got sucked into stock market euphoria -- and catastrophe...  |
Salon.com January 19, 2002 Andrew Leonard |
Capitalist pigs The sordid tales of Enron plutocrats looting the company of its treasure as their employees and shareholders faced ruin are enough to turn you into a class warrior...  |
CFO January 1, 2002 Ronald Fink |
Double Whammy As real estate markets sag, companies that used synthetic leases to move real estate liabilities off the balance sheet could face a costly dilemma. They may find banks unwilling to roll the loan over during tough economic times, forcing them to sell property in a depressed market.  |
CFO January 1, 2002 Harris & Caplan |
The Perils of Impairment Investors will be getting a better look at corporate balance sheets, thanks to new accounting rules (FAS 141 & 142) covering goodwill and how to reflect its impairment. How will this affect business metrics, and how will investors react?  |
Wired January 2002 Cory Johnson |
Tools of Self-Destruction What pushed Excite@Home into ruin? Blame it on carelessness -- or something even worse. But don't be confused: It's clear that certain financial decisions made by company board members and executives helped drive Excite@Home to destruction...  |
U.S. Banker January 2002 Robert A. Bennett |
Put the Reins on Passion Lenders and investors were so caught up in Enron's philosophy that they were blind to reality...  |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Pro Forma Earnings Reports: A Deceptive View of Performance The Securities and Exchange Commission is concerned with a widespread corporate habit -- the growing practice of issuing "pro forma" earnings reports that tend to paint a rosy picture of company results...  |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Oh, the Games Enron Played The Enron story is not simply a case of a lone company that played with fire and got burned. Enron was able to take enormous risks while keeping shareholders in the dark because it could exploit accounting loopholes for subsidiaries that are available to most publicly traded companies.  |
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