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Lessons From the Orgy of Corporate Greed

Revelations about the orgy of corporate greed and fraud in the late 1990s and early 2000s have sent shock waves throughout the U.S. economy and around the world. Yet, there's a curious thing about this particular episode in corporate history: While everyone agrees that crimes have been committed, most people — including the victims — don't have the financial intelligence to understand what the criminals really did!

Joe unravels the financial fraud mysteries by telling a series of dramatic stories that expose the business techniques and accounting tricks employed by these high-powered, corrupt managers and executives.

In the Orgy of Corporate Greed keynote, Joe [See Joe in action here (QuickTime required)] unravels the financial fraud mysteries by telling a series of dramatic stories that expose the business techniques and accounting tricks employed by these high-powered, corrupt managers and executives.

You'll hear how these scandalous "professionals" pumped up their companies' stock prices and amassed huge fortunes for themselves, while keeping investors, employees, and regulators in the dark. Revenue recognition, phantom sales, cookie jar accounting, capitalizing expenses, off-balance sheet partnerships, and Sarbanes-Oxley will come to life through Joe's lively discussion of this orgy — one that is still going on today.

Audience members will:

• Grasp what's actually going on behind today's headlines
• Develop the financial intelligence to look more closely and critically at corporate behavior in the future
• Acquire the ability to recognize untrustworthy companies by their actions

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