AuthorJorion, Paul
TitleInvesting in a post Enron world [electronic resource] / Paul Jorion
Imprint New York : McGraw-Hill, c2003
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Descript xi, 244 p. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Enron 101 -- Holding the accounting firm accountable -- Capitalism 101 -- Sharing capital growth or not -- The price and value of a share of stock -- How shares are priced -- How Enron got earnings-obsessed -- Stock options : the war between management and shareholders -- Wretched excess -- Aggressive accounting -- Massaging financial reports -- Reading (or ignoring) analysts' recommendations -- The perils of cliffs -- Employees as shareholders -- The last word


SUBJECT

  1. Investments -- United States
  2. Stocks -- United States
  3. Corporations -- Accounting -- Corrupt practices -- United States
  4. Accounting firms -- Corrupt practices -- United States
  5. Enron Corp
  6. Electronic books.