| Description |
1 online resource (210 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
An old adage says ''numbers don't lie.'' But how do you know if they do lie? How is an investor supposed to know when a company is misleading its shareholders with false financial statements? Financial Self-Defense for Investors outlines the manipulations and shenanigans embedded within financial information, from annual reports to investor prospectuses. Investors need to know what the tricks and sleights of hand are or could be. This highly readable book explains how companies alter their financial statements and the other practices used to pull one over on shareholders. The book is a primer. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Trick List; Preface; Introduction; 1 Whose Interests?: Some of the players and their motivations; 2 Information Food Chain: Shows how changes in the pecking order affect wealth; 3 Listen-Only Mode: The tactics of conferencing/webcasting; 4 Good Call Bounce: More conference call tactics; 5 Very Late-Breaking News: It's not what you know, it's when you know it; 6 Now You See It. Now You Don't: Portrays how the IR portrait can be reportrayed; 7 Basking in the Limelight: How executives can tag along on someone else's glory. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Corporation reports.
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Corporation reports. |
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Investments.
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Investments. |
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Finance, Personal.
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Finance, Personal. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9781897415870 (electronic book) |
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1897415877 (electronic book) |
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1280911484 |
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9781280911484 |
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9781894663946 |
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1894663942 (paperback) |
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