ACCOUNTING TRICKS - RED FLAG INDICATORS

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viswanathan
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ACCOUNTING TRICKS - RED FLAG INDICATORS

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Dear All,
I am starting this thread to share some accounting tricks that an investor should watch out - a kind a RED FLAG INDICATORS
Feel free to add up any accounting tricks (of course with details) that you may come across or aware of.

Starting with Pollypeck.

The cunning trick at the heart of the Polly Peck disaster
http://www.moneyweek.com/investment-adv ... bust-60300

The accounting trick that fooled Polly Peck's investors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-b62ZYXAyw

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