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* Read * The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America by Alex Berenson ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America He explains how the wheels came off the wagon, giving readers the information and analysis they need to understand Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Halliburton, and the rest of the corporate calamities of our times.. With wit and a broad historical perspective, Berenson puts recent corporate accounting (or accountability) disasters in their proper context. earnings per share is the number for which all other numbers are sacrificed. It is the distilled truth of a company’s health.Too bad it’s o

The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America

Title : The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America
Author :
Rating : 4.78 (713 Votes)
Asin : 0812966252
Format Type : paperback
Number of Pages : 328 Pages
Publish Date : 2013-07-08
Language : English

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New York Times reporter Berenson provides eye-opening answers to these and other equally disturbing questions in this hard-hitting and well-documented study. Against a background of the decline in independent investment research and the shift in client base for investment houses from individual investors to corporations, he charts the ascent of earnings per share-"the number"-to measure companies' health. . From Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) In the wake of Enron's spectacular implosion, the scandals surrounding the collapse of Tyco's stock price and revelations that WorldCom inflated its earnings by $9 billion, many wonder how independent auditors could have overlooked such huge discrepancies in financial records. His coruscating portrait of the boldness and reach o

He explains how the wheels came off the wagon, giving readers the information and analysis they need to understand Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Halliburton, and the rest of the corporate calamities of our times.. With wit and a broad historical perspective, Berenson puts recent corporate accounting (or accountability) disasters in their proper context. earnings per share is the number for which all other numbers are sacrificed. It is the distilled truth of a company’s health.Too bad it’s often a lie.Alex Berenson’s The Number provides a comprehensiv, brutally factual overview of how Wall Street and corporate America lost their way during the great bull market that began in 1982. With a new Afterwo

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