About this title: The fall, in 2001, of the much-touted corporate giant the Enron Corporation made headlines as billions of dollars virtually disappeared and reports of corporate malfeasance surfaced. Investors--including pension plans, Enron employees, and ordinary Americans--were left stunned, angry, and broke. A concerned public asked how it happened, and wanted to know whether the company's inflated status and its political connections had enabled it to circumvent the oversight of both its own accounting firms as well as the SEC. Focusing on the major players and the events that led to Enron's demise, ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 03/2005
ISBN-13:9780767911788ISBN:0767911784
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 768 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 03/2005
ISBN-13:9780767911788ISBN:0767911784
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 768 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway Books
Date Published: 03/2005
ISBN-13:9780767911788ISBN:0767911784
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 768 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780767911788ISBN:0767911784
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway
Date Published: 2005-12-27
ISBN-13:9780767911795ISBN:0767911792
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Broadway Books, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780767911795ISBN:0767911792
Description: Good. Cover shows signs of wear. Cover and some pages have cornercreasing, otherwise book is great inside! Binding tight, pages clean. ORDERS OUT IN 24 HOURS. read more
"This is an absolutely fantastic book. I didn't expect to like it, given the technical nature of the some of the financial transactions discussed but I decided to give it a try because I loved his book The Informant. The story is laid out in a readable, interesting kind of way and the facts are so unbelievable. I kept thinking "you can't make this stuff up.""
"Though not a new read, I'm posting this now because of the frightening parallels between the current market collapse and the ENRON debacle, which is this book's subject.
While it covers some pretty arcane financial subjects, Eichenwald tells this story like a detective novel: so don't be put off by its length (or, as I always recommend, get the audio version!).
e lets his narrative unfold through the stories of the key players like Jeff Skilling (now in jail), Ken Lay (now dead) and Andrew Fastow (also in jail)- but also manages to describe in lay terms just how the whole schemes worked - including the venal and corrupt roles of the accounting institutions (like Arthur Andersen - also now dead)and, more relevant today, the investment banks that play so critical a role."
"To be honest, I wasn't sure I could make it through 675 pages on the collapse of Enron. Pipelines, hedge funds, mark-to-market accounting, profit-shifting, energy deregulation - b-o-r-i-n-g, right? Not at all, actually.
I read this book non-stop and am tempted to read it a second time. Eichenwald's writing stle made the topic so palatable (delicious, in fact) that it read like a suspense novel - full of lurid details, unedited dialogue, juicy affairs, boardroom brawls and felonies. His writing style clipped along at a nice pace, setting up each scene to pack a punch and then moving on to the next one. I think he had a great editor.
Having worked in big corporate America though, I can really relate to some of the politics & practices at Enron that set the stage for this debacle. The back-stabbing, the PRC (Performance Review Committee), the crazy bonus structure and the way anyone who questioned the powerful politically-savvy wrong-doers were transferred, demoted or fired. The treasurer and CFO were promoted to their positions with no actual job knowledge - and then they gave their accomplices all their supporting roles? Well, I can totally see how that happened - that's kinda BAU for most corporations.
For the first 200 pages I just couldn't believe what I was reading and then it just descended from stupidity, poor management and unethical behaviour to all-out crime, greed & insanity.
"Enron at the end of the 20th century became a breeding ground for probably the most complex business scandal in history, but Eichenwald expertly breaks it all down & puts it in highly readable perspective. He explains in detail how an old-school pipeline company grew into a multi billion-dollar game of Three-card Monte, and how a handful of journalists & second-string market analysts finally began to uncover the scam. At the same time, he never takes his eye off the personalities behind it all: the way Andrew Fastow's rapacious greed started the company down a path to inevitable destruction, the way Jeffrey Skilling's blinding arrogance turned him into a high-stakes con man, & the way Ken Lay's grandfatherly incompetence morphed into genuine corruption."
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