Grading The Accountants

from the fail-'em! dept

An analyst at CSFB has come up with an additional rating for companies beyond the buy/sell/hold etc. ratings. This analyst has also started giving letter grades to the accountants who files financial statements for each company. In the wake of the Enron scandal, when everyone now assumes that all accountants are lying bastards, this sort of thing might be useful (assuming you trust the analyst as well - which might be a leap of faith in its own right). Maybe we now need to set up a grading system that will grade the analysts who grade the accountants.
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    sb, 19 Mar 2002 @ 5:40pm

    No Subject Given

    too LITTLE , too LATE
    closing the barn door
    chumps are broke, suckers been scammed with fake stock ,

    new laws wont do shit for them
    1934 alll over again

    what a f'ing joke
    no one give a shit anymore
    moneys gone

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