Wheel, deal, and steal deceptive accounting, deceitful CEOs, and ineffective reforms
In Wheel, Deal, and Steal, D. Quinn Mills shows investors how the financial frauds work, where the money goes, who's to blame, and what they can do about it. He explains how imperial CEOs continue to mislead their investors---and how the rules intended to protect investors continue to fail.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Upper Saddle River, NJ :
Prentice Hall/Financial Times
c2003.
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| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Series: | Financial Times Prentice Hall books
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627029706719 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1 : What happened to investors' money?
- Why you should read this book
- Scandals and more scandals
- Systematic deception
- More than a few bad apples
- Part 2 : Infectious greed : who got the money?
- Shareholders versus CEOs: the CEOs make it big
- Osama Bin Andersen: the role of the accountants
- Part 3 : The failure of checks and balances
- Neither prevent nor punish
- Ordinary business at the banks
- The corruption of the analysts
- Part 4 : Why it happened
- The temptation to steal
- The ethics of the gutter
- Part 5 : Reforms to help investors
- Ties, belts, and shoelaces: changing incentives for CEOs
- Total regulatory reform
- Restraining the imperial CEO
- Part 6 : The market's role in a solution
- Let the market choose
- Ethics can make the market work
- Part 7 : Getting your money back
- Freezing and seizing: a direct route to the CEO's pocketbook
- Getting Congress to get it for you
- Part 8 : Protecting yourself from new dangers
- How should I invest?
- Hedge funds that don't hedge
- Do investors dare return to the market?
