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The Financial Numbers Game, INVESTOR DIGEST
Investor Digest (Malaysia), April, 2002
Investor Digest (Malaysia) 04-16-2002 THE ENRON CORP COLLAPSE HAS forced various quarters to take a closer look at their accounting practices and strategies. Enron is not the first, and surely not the last, to take the road of massaging its financial books. But the enormity of the event served as a wake-up call to corporate leaders and regulators.
A newly-released book, The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices, could not have made a better entry. The book discusses actual Enron-like cases. Judging from its well- illustrated content, there must have been plenty of them. In a nutshell, it's a help book for those who need to wade through the end work of accountants and related parties. It attempts to show readers of financial...
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