The Number
How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America
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Author
Contributions
- Mark Cuban (Foreword) - Contributor
Publication
2004-04-13 - Random House Trade Paperbacks
Language
English
Word Count
84,000 words, Guess
Page Count
336 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8020757M
- ISBN-139780812966251
- ISBN-100812966252
- OCLC Control Number54960073
- Library of Congress Control Number2006273474
and 2 more
- LibraryThing598751
- Goodreads845107
Classifications
- LCCHV6769 .B467 2004
Description
Examines how companies have put too much emphasis on "the number," companies' quarterly earnings, and lost track of their true purpose of building profititable businesses, which has led to accounting fraud and the recent corporate scandals.
Description
"Alex Berenson's The Number provides a comprehensive overview of how Wall Street and corporate America lost their way during the great bull market that began in 1982. With wit and a broad historical perspective, Berenson puts Enron, WorldCom, and other recent accounting disaster in context. He explains how the wheels came off the wagon, giving readers the information and analysis they need to understand Enron, Tyco, Halliburton, and the rest of the corporate calamities of recent years."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
It had been a very long week for J. P. Morgan Jr.
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