The Number

The Number

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

by Alex Berenson

284 pages· ISBN 9780812966251
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Analyzes accounting practices that led to scandals at such companies as Enron and WorldCom, profiling the American bull market that began in 1982 and tracing the events and deceptions that culminated in misleading Wall Street quarterly reports. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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