Showing posts with label accounting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accounting. Show all posts

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Wells Fargo in deep water

Wells Fargo Stage Coach by Sven Ohrvel Carlson

It seems that, encouraged by new US accounting rules, some companies are resorting to optimistic subjective estimates of their own value, in order to reassure their investors. Jonathan Weil reported on this in Bloomberg yesterday.

Let's hope the wheels don't come off! And thanks to Michael Panzner for spotting the article.