||9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| More painful in retrospect|By D. Alexander|I wrote this review in late 2007 for a class:
Greed. Unparalleled greed. One might assume from the title of his book that Alex Berenson wrote a mathematical treatise. He did not. The Number is a study of how independent, rational investors can and do throw their experience to the wind in a desperate money-grab, couched in b|From Publishers Weekly|(Starred ) 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 overl
In this commanding big-picture analysis of what went wrong in corporate America, Alex Berenson, a top financial investigative reporter for The New York Times, examines the common thread connecting Enron, Worldcom, Halliburton, Computer Associates, Tyco, and other recent corporate scandals: the cult of the number.
Every three months, 14,000 publicly traded companies report sales and profits to their shareholders. Nothing is more important in these quart...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America | Alex Berenson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.