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Corporate collapse : regulatory, accounting, and ethical failure / F.L. Clarke, G.W. Dean, K.G. Oliver.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: xx, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521585236
  • 9780521585231
  • 0521585201
  • 9780521585200
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.9657 21
LOC classification:
  • HG230.3 .C56 1997
Contents:
1. Swindlers' list -- 2. Creative accounting -- 3. The corporate 1960s - dubious credit and tangled webs -- 4. Reid Murray - the archetypal failure -- 5. Stanhill - public and private corporate 'games' -- 6. H. G. Palmer - 'Gilt' by association -- 7. Going for broke in the 1970s -- 8. Minsec - decline of a mining trader -- 9. Cambridge Credit - other people's money -- 10. Uncoordinated financial strategies at Associated Securities Ltd -- 11. 1980s: Decade of the deal? -- 12. Adsteam on the rocks -- 13. Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd. (Group) - entrepreneurial rise and fall -- 14. Groupthink and consolidation accounting -- 15. Fatal attrition - accounting's diminishing serviceability -- 16. Ethos abandoned, vision lost, accounting at the professional cross roads?.
Summary: Examines why accounting has failed to deliver the truth about a company's state of affairs or to give warning of its drift to failure. Examines a number of well known cases of corporate collapse from the 1960s to the 1990s.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-288) and index.

1. Swindlers' list -- 2. Creative accounting -- 3. The corporate 1960s - dubious credit and tangled webs -- 4. Reid Murray - the archetypal failure -- 5. Stanhill - public and private corporate 'games' -- 6. H. G. Palmer - 'Gilt' by association -- 7. Going for broke in the 1970s -- 8. Minsec - decline of a mining trader -- 9. Cambridge Credit - other people's money -- 10. Uncoordinated financial strategies at Associated Securities Ltd -- 11. 1980s: Decade of the deal? -- 12. Adsteam on the rocks -- 13. Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd. (Group) - entrepreneurial rise and fall -- 14. Groupthink and consolidation accounting -- 15. Fatal attrition - accounting's diminishing serviceability -- 16. Ethos abandoned, vision lost, accounting at the professional cross roads?.

Examines why accounting has failed to deliver the truth about a company's state of affairs or to give warning of its drift to failure. Examines a number of well known cases of corporate collapse from the 1960s to the 1990s.

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