Financial Self-Defense for InvestorsInsomniac Press, 2005 - 211 من الصفحات 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 for investors in the tradition of Confessions of an Advertising Man. It will appeal to both novice investors and seasoned professionals. Industry practitioners will nod in appreciation as they recognize some of the grey-area techniques used to manipulate information with timing and spin. Professional fraudsters may regret this publication. It also contains a financial sucker test that identifies individual gullibility as a lead-in to financial disaster. You cannot afford to miss this book. |
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The tactics of conferencingwebcasting | 29 |
More conference call tactics | 37 |
Its not what you know its when you know it | 43 |
Portrays how the IR portrait can be reportrayed | 49 |
Anonymous usually disgusting frequently profane but somehow compelling Financial voyeurism? | 113 |
Nothing today Just us chickens here | 117 |
How rumors crank up when management is just reloading | 123 |
We have news but not yet | 131 |
Just what does it take to do this job? | 139 |
Crossover and backchannel strategies | 147 |
If Reg FD means its all out there how does the Alist perpetuate itself? | 153 |
The nonjudgmental gunrunners who make it work | 157 |
How executives can tag along on someone elses glory | 55 |
Why you should be so wary of the constant messenger | 59 |
How the constant beat of the drum will turn your head | 65 |
Drumbeat is overdone | 71 |
How to deal with the pirates and buccaneers | 75 |
How to deal with the pirates and buccaneers redux | 83 |
Investment Banking How the pirates and buccaneers deal with you | 89 |
How the annual performance review became a nice party | 93 |
Mutual back scratch and other deadline pressures | 97 |
A Pied Piper has many tunes | 103 |
Private audiences with the Pied Piper | 109 |
Were really big and we like it that way How dominance brings its own abuses | 165 |
Disclosure is like a bikini | 171 |
Can management get away with anything or is business just very difficult anyway? | 177 |
The Devil Made Me Do It | 183 |
Financial Sucker Test | 187 |
Financial Sucker Test Interpretation | 193 |
Affirmation of Renewal | 201 |
Glossary of Selected Financial Terminology | 205 |
About the author | 209 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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الصفحة 5 - Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me : he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house : he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
الصفحة 21 - Investor relations is a strategic management responsibility using the disciplines of finance, communications, and marketing to manage the content and flow of company information to financial and other constituencies to maximize relative valuations.