accounting loophole / creative accounting
description: manipulation of financial records for favourable company presentation
126 results
The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words
excluded from the UK’s national statistics. The EU would not stand a chance of reaching its climate targets without a wide use of clever creative accounting like this. In 2019, 59 per cent of the EU’s so-called renewable energy came from biomass. ‘To be perfectly blunt with you, biomass
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emissions have gone up by more than 60 per cent, turning what was then a ‘big challenge’ into an existential emergency. We have developed impressive creative accounting, loopholes, outsourcing and greenwashing PR narratives that make it seem as if real action is being taken when in fact it is not. Continued economic growth
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are we going to do? Well, the answer is the same as always: we will cheat. We will use all those loopholes and all the creative accounting that we have conjured up in our climate frameworks since the very first Conference of the Parties, the 1995 COP1 in Berlin. We will outsource
The Great Tax Robbery: How Britain Became a Tax Haven for Fat Cats and Big Business
by Richard Brooks · 2 Jan 2014 · 301pp · 88,082 words
partners were now hitting the high hundreds of thousands on the back of tax avoidance. No area of the tax code was safe from the accountants’ loophole-detectors. So it was no surprise when the same firms that were picking apart corporate tax laws spotted the booming bonus culture as another fat
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 7 Oct 2024 · 336pp · 104,899 words
on profits: while nominally American, the island was unincorporated, and therefore foreign enough for this sort of dodge to pass muster. Finally, thanks to an accounting loophole passed in 1947 with an assist from ADL, the tax breaks carried over when the money was brought back to the mainland. It was the
The Making of Global Capitalism
by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin · 8 Oct 2012 · 823pp · 206,070 words
), London’s merchant bankers—the financial praetorian guard of the old empire—made a bold move to switch allegiance to the US dollar. Employing an accounting loophole in the exchange control regulations, and facilitated by the Bank of England without either approval or oversight by the UK Treasury, the City created a
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
by Jeff Madrick · 11 Jun 2012 · 840pp · 202,245 words
created rising, unsustainable levels of debt. At this task, Fastow was a charming wizard. He established partnerships (special purpose entities) with outside investors, which, through accounting loopholes, enabled Enron to sell bad assets into these partnerships. The partners participated only because their investments were collateralized by soaring Enron stock. Legally, the partnerships
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
by Russell Gold · 7 Apr 2014 · 423pp · 118,002 words
debt than it cared to acknowledge. Pointing out that Enron had pioneered the VPPs a decade earlier, he wrote, “Due to what we consider an accounting loophole, Chesapeake is effectively able to hide its VPP liabilities from its balance sheet—something even Enron Oil and Gas Company did not do.” While investment
Gambling Man
by Lionel Barber · 3 Oct 2024 · 424pp · 123,730 words
a day, serving stir-fried noodles, wonton soup and other Oriental dishes. The business was popular and profitable, until the day it closed due to ‘creative accounting’ issues. Masa blamed the snafus on his business partner.12 Later in life, when confronted with billions of dollars of losses and negative press, Masa
Failed State: The Sunday Times Bestselling Investigation Into Why Britain Is Struggling
by Sam Freedman · 10 Jul 2024 · 368pp · 101,133 words
shown they categorically were not.33 It always costs more to borrow from banks than just fund projects directly. Labour did it because it allowed creative accounting on an epic scale. As we saw in the first chapter, Gordon Brown was the first chancellor to commit to public ‘fiscal rules’ which constrained
Global Financial Crisis
by Noah Berlatsky · 19 Feb 2010
part of the corporate welfare scandal. A new paper by the US Institute for Policy Studies shows that, through a series of cunning tax and accounting loopholes, the US spends $20bn a year subsidising executive pay. By disguising their professional fees as 203 The Global Financial Crisis capital gains rather than income
The Blockchain Alternative: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy and Economic Theory
by Kariappa Bheemaiah · 26 Feb 2017 · 492pp · 118,882 words
control systems. A prime example of this was the 2001 Enron scandal, where company executives and managers, in a blatant display of rule-flouting, used accounting loopholes, special purpose entities, and false financial reporting to hide billions of dollars of debt incurred by botched deals and projects. The Enron scandal had two
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
by Siddharth Kara · 30 Jan 2023 · 302pp · 96,609 words
Advertisers at Work
by Tracy Tuten · 28 May 2012 · 411pp · 127,755 words
MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World
by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
by William K. Black · 31 Mar 2005 · 432pp · 127,985 words
You Are Not a Gadget
by Jaron Lanier · 12 Jan 2010 · 224pp · 64,156 words
The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves
by Dan Ariely · 27 Jun 2012 · 258pp · 73,109 words
Against Intellectual Monopoly
by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine · 6 Jul 2008 · 607pp · 133,452 words
Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever
by Alex Kantrowitz · 6 Apr 2020 · 260pp · 67,823 words
Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us About Economics and Life
by Alan B. Krueger · 3 Jun 2019
The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer Of 1982
by Chris Nashawaty · 251pp · 86,553 words
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
by Tim Wu · 2 Nov 2010 · 418pp · 128,965 words
Sweden
by Becky Ohlsen · 19 Jun 2009
The Irrational Bundle
by Dan Ariely · 3 Apr 2013 · 898pp · 266,274 words
The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer
by Dean Baker · 15 Jul 2006 · 234pp · 53,078 words
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
by Gillian Tett · 11 May 2009 · 311pp · 99,699 words
The Social Life of Money
by Nigel Dodd · 14 May 2014 · 700pp · 201,953 words
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words
Working the Street: What You Need to Know About Life on Wall Street
by Erik Banks · 7 Feb 2004
The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as if the Future Matters
by Diane Coyle · 21 Feb 2011 · 523pp · 111,615 words
Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge · 27 Feb 2018 · 267pp · 72,552 words
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari · 29 Aug 2018 · 389pp · 119,487 words
The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 1 Jan 2010 · 369pp · 94,588 words
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
by David Harvey · 3 Apr 2014 · 464pp · 116,945 words
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
by Safi Bahcall · 19 Mar 2019 · 393pp · 115,217 words
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets
by John McMillan · 1 Jan 2002 · 350pp · 103,988 words
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy
by Raghuram Rajan · 24 May 2010 · 358pp · 106,729 words
Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
by Brett Christophers · 17 Nov 2020 · 614pp · 168,545 words
The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America—and How to Undo His Legacy
by David Gelles · 30 May 2022 · 318pp · 91,957 words
Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
by Ben Tarnoff · 13 Jun 2022 · 234pp · 67,589 words
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by Vauhini Vara · 8 Apr 2025 · 301pp · 105,209 words
The Smartest Guys in the Room
by Bethany McLean · 25 Nov 2013 · 778pp · 233,096 words
The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice
by Fredrik Deboer · 3 Aug 2020 · 236pp · 77,546 words
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
by Mo Gawdat · 29 Sep 2021 · 259pp · 84,261 words
The Impulse Society: America in the Age of Instant Gratification
by Paul Roberts · 1 Sep 2014 · 324pp · 92,805 words
Stealth of Nations
by Robert Neuwirth · 18 Oct 2011 · 340pp · 91,387 words
Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
by Rana Foroohar · 16 May 2016 · 515pp · 132,295 words
How Will Capitalism End?
by Wolfgang Streeck · 8 Nov 2016 · 424pp · 115,035 words
Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011–2016
by Stewart Lee · 1 Aug 2016 · 282pp · 89,266 words
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter
by Dr. Dan Ariely and Jeff Kreisler · 7 Nov 2017 · 302pp · 87,776 words
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History
by Ben Mezrich · 6 Nov 2023 · 279pp · 85,453 words
Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives
by Satyajit Das · 15 Nov 2006 · 349pp · 134,041 words
After the New Economy: The Binge . . . And the Hangover That Won't Go Away
by Doug Henwood · 9 May 2005 · 306pp · 78,893 words
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Eleventh Edition)
by Burton G. Malkiel · 5 Jan 2015 · 482pp · 121,672 words
Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US
by Rana Foroohar · 5 Nov 2019 · 380pp · 109,724 words
Wall Street: How It Works And for Whom
by Doug Henwood · 30 Aug 1998 · 586pp · 159,901 words
Bernie Madoff, the Wizard of Lies: Inside the Infamous $65 Billion Swindle
by Diana B. Henriques · 1 Aug 2011 · 598pp · 169,194 words
Freedom Without Borders
by Hoyt L. Barber · 23 Feb 2012 · 192pp · 72,822 words
Principles of Corporate Finance
by Richard A. Brealey, Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen · 15 Feb 2014
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing
by Burton G. Malkiel · 10 Jan 2011 · 416pp · 118,592 words
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by Alan Rusbridger · 14 Oct 2018 · 579pp · 160,351 words
Stigum's Money Market, 4E
by Marcia Stigum and Anthony Crescenzi · 9 Feb 2007 · 1,202pp · 424,886 words
Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles
by William Quinn and John D. Turner · 5 Aug 2020 · 297pp · 108,353 words
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
by Javier Blas and Jack Farchy · 25 Feb 2021 · 565pp · 134,138 words
Understanding Asset Allocation: An Intuitive Approach to Maximizing Your Portfolio
by Victor A. Canto · 2 Jan 2005 · 337pp · 89,075 words
The Fissured Workplace
by David Weil · 17 Feb 2014 · 518pp · 147,036 words
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
by Andrew Sayer · 6 Nov 2014 · 504pp · 143,303 words
Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Blyth · 24 Apr 2013 · 576pp · 105,655 words
Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by Steve Keen · 21 Sep 2011 · 823pp · 220,581 words
Practical Doomsday: A User's Guide to the End of the World
by Michal Zalewski · 11 Jan 2022 · 337pp · 96,666 words
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett · 15 Feb 2000
The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
by Daniel Ammann · 12 Oct 2009 · 479pp · 102,876 words
Bean Counters: The Triumph of the Accountants and How They Broke Capitalism
by Richard Brooks · 23 Apr 2018 · 398pp · 105,917 words
Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice
by Pierre Vernimmen, Pascal Quiry, Maurizio Dallocchio, Yann le Fur and Antonio Salvi · 16 Oct 2017 · 1,544pp · 391,691 words
Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America
by Sam Roberts · 22 Jan 2013 · 219pp · 67,173 words
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by Barry Schwartz · 1 Jan 2004 · 241pp · 75,516 words
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
by Paul Collier · 4 Dec 2018 · 310pp · 85,995 words
The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age
by James Crabtree · 2 Jul 2018 · 442pp · 130,526 words
The Sum of All Fears
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1989
The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
by Matthew Hindman · 24 Sep 2018
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A Pipeline Runs Through It: The Story of Oil From Ancient Times to the First World War
by Keith Fisher · 3 Aug 2022
Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire
by Hans Gremeil and William Sposato · 15 Dec 2021 · 404pp · 126,447 words
Economists and the Powerful
by Norbert Haring, Norbert H. Ring and Niall Douglas · 30 Sep 2012 · 261pp · 103,244 words
Wall Street Meat
by Andy Kessler · 17 Mar 2003 · 270pp · 75,803 words
The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations
by Jacob Soll · 28 Apr 2014 · 382pp · 105,166 words
Financial Fiasco: How America's Infatuation With Homeownership and Easy Money Created the Economic Crisis
by Johan Norberg · 14 Sep 2009 · 246pp · 74,341 words
Kill Your Friends
by John Niven · 7 Feb 2008 · 269pp · 78,468 words
War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures, and Debt
by Kwasi Kwarteng · 12 May 2014 · 632pp · 159,454 words
The Winner-Take-All Society: Why the Few at the Top Get So Much More Than the Rest of Us
by Robert H. Frank, Philip J. Cook · 2 May 2011
Posh Boys: How English Public Schools Ruin Britain
by Robert Verkaik · 14 Apr 2018 · 419pp · 119,476 words
Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron
by John Preston · 9 Feb 2021 · 374pp · 110,238 words
The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 14 Jul 2015 · 138pp · 41,353 words
How the World Ran Out of Everything
by Peter S. Goodman · 11 Jun 2024 · 528pp · 127,605 words
Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic
by Hugh Sinclair · 4 Oct 2012 · 346pp · 101,763 words
How the City Really Works: The Definitive Guide to Money and Investing in London's Square Mile
by Alexander Davidson · 1 Apr 2008 · 368pp · 32,950 words
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
by Thomas Piketty · 10 Mar 2014 · 935pp · 267,358 words
The Great Divide: Unequal Societies and What We Can Do About Them
by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 15 Mar 2015 · 409pp · 125,611 words
The Intelligent Investor (Collins Business Essentials)
by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig · 1 Jan 1949 · 670pp · 194,502 words
The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril
by Satyajit Das · 9 Feb 2016 · 327pp · 90,542 words
Digital Accounting: The Effects of the Internet and Erp on Accounting
by Ashutosh Deshmukh · 13 Dec 2005
The World According to Physics
by Jim Al-Khalili · 10 Mar 2020 · 198pp · 57,703 words
The City
by Tony Norfield · 352pp · 98,561 words
Termites of the State: Why Complexity Leads to Inequality
by Vito Tanzi · 28 Dec 2017
Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees
by Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon · 2 Mar 2010 · 613pp · 181,605 words
Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer-And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class
by Paul Pierson and Jacob S. Hacker · 14 Sep 2010 · 602pp · 120,848 words
Ethics in Investment Banking
by John N. Reynolds and Edmund Newell · 8 Nov 2011 · 193pp · 11,060 words
Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
by Raymond Fisman and Edward Miguel · 14 Apr 2008
Big Blues: The Unmaking of IBM
by Paul Carroll · 19 Sep 1994
How to Predict the Unpredictable
by William Poundstone · 267pp · 71,941 words
Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain
by Christian Wolmar · 1 Mar 2009 · 493pp · 145,326 words
Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man
by Jonathan Conlin · 3 Jan 2019 · 604pp · 165,488 words
Who Will Defend Europe?: An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
by Keir Giles · 24 Oct 2024 · 296pp · 81,440 words
On the Wrong Line: How Ideology and Incompetence Wrecked Britain's Railways
by Christian Wolmar · 29 May 2005
British Rail
by Christian Wolmar · 9 Jun 2022 · 337pp · 100,260 words
Mastering Book-Keeping: A Complete Guide to the Principles and Practice of Business Accounting
by Peter Marshall · 1 Feb 1997
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas · 1 Apr 2008 · 364pp · 101,193 words
Birth of the Euro
by Otmar Issing · 20 Oct 2008 · 276pp · 82,603 words
Principles of Protocol Design
by Robin Sharp · 13 Feb 2008
More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
by Philip Coggan · 6 Feb 2020 · 524pp · 155,947 words
An Empire of Wealth: Rise of American Economy Power 1607-2000
by John Steele Gordon · 12 Oct 2009 · 519pp · 148,131 words
Artemis
by Andy Weir · 14 Nov 2017 · 343pp · 89,057 words
Mastering Spreadsheet Bookkeeping
by Peter Marshall · 16 Apr 2014 · 306pp · 58,984 words
Paper Promises
by Philip Coggan · 1 Dec 2011 · 376pp · 109,092 words
The Great Railroad Revolution
by Christian Wolmar · 9 Jun 2014 · 523pp · 159,884 words
Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
by Peter Singer · 3 Mar 2009 · 190pp · 61,970 words