Financial Self-Defense for Investors.
Title:
Financial Self-Defense for Investors.
Author:
Gutowski, George.
ISBN:
9781897415870
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (211 pages)
Contents:
Trick List -- Acknowledgements -- 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 -- 8 E-mail Alerts: Why you should be so wary of the constant messenger -- 9 Rolling Thunder: How the constant beat of the drum will turn your head -- 10 The President Came in Today!: Drumbeat is overdone -- 11 Boiler Room Redux: How to deal with the pirates and buccaneers -- 12 Chinese Walls, Sell-Side Analysts: How to deal with the pirates and buccaneers (redux) -- 13 The Lure of the Fee: Investment Banking: How the pirates and buccaneers deal with you -- 14 Annual General Meetings: How the annual performance review became a nice party -- 15 Story Pitch: Mutual back scratch and other deadline pressures -- 16 CEO Personality: A Pied Piper has many tunes -- 17 CEO Access: Private audiences with the Pied Piper -- 18 Chat Rooms: Anonymous, usually disgusting, frequently profane, but somehow compelling. Financial voyeurism? -- 19 Cone of Silence: Nothing today. Just us chickens here -- 20 Quiet Period: How rumors crank up when management is just reloading -- 21 Headlines & Embargoes: We have news, but not yet -- 22 IR DNA: Just what does it take to do this job? -- 23 Corporate Communications: Crossover and back-channel strategies -- 24 Investment Conferences: If Reg FD means it's all out there, how does the Alist perpetuate itself?.
25 Arms Merchants: The non-judgmental gunrunners who make it work -- 26 Institutional Clout: We're really big and we like it that way. How dominance brings its own abuses -- 27 Disclosure: Disclosure is like a bikini... -- 28 Safe Harbor: Can management get away with anything or is business just very difficult anyway? -- The Devil Made Me Do It -- Financial Sucker Test -- Financial Sucker Test Interpretation -- Affirmation of Renewal -- Glossary of Selected Financial Terminology -- About the author.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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