The Smartest Guys in the Room
Bethany McLean & Peter Elkind · 2003
The Enron autopsy. McLean asked the question no analyst would, how exactly does Enron make money, and the answer unraveled the seventh-largest company in America. Mark-to-market earnings, off-balance-sheet partnerships, and a culture that promoted the deal over the truth. The rare fraud book that teaches you to read footnotes.
The case against
Five hundred pages of accounting fraud demands a reader who finds special-purpose entities gripping, and the authors assume you do. The cast of vice presidents blurs, the timeline doubles back, and the prose is dogged rather than graceful. The material earns the length; your attention pays for it.
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