The Number
Subtitle: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America
Contributors: Mark Cuban (Foreword)
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: April 13, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780812966251
Subjects: White Collar Crime; Investments & Securities - General; Corporate Finance; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Other Miscellaneous Crimes; Corporate & Business History - General; Business & Economics / Corporate Finance; Accounting; Auditing; Corporations; Corrupt practices; Financial statements; Prevention; United States
First sentence: It had been a very long week for J. P. Morgan Jr.
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.