Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Accounting frauds and audit failures

Accounting

Enron, Arthur Andersen, Steinhoff, Wirecard and the audit firms that signed their accounts.

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  1. 24 DaysRebecca Smith, John R. Emshwiller, 2003
  2. Final AccountingBarbara Ley Toffler, 2003
  3. SteinheistRob Rose, 2018
  4. The Big FourIan D. Gow, Stuart Kells, 2018
  5. What Went Wrong at EnronPeter C. Fusaro, Ross M. Miller, 2002
24 Days24 Days
T3 24 Days
Rebecca Smith, John R. Emshwiller · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

The two Wall Street Journal reporters who broke the story.

Final AccountingFinal Accounting
T3 Final Accounting
Barbara Ley Toffler · 2003
Open LibraryGoodreads

An Andersen partner on how consulting revenue corroded audit.

Steinheist
T3 Steinheist
Rob Rose · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Steinhoff: the largest accounting fraud in South African corporate history.

The Big FourThe Big Four
T3 The Big Four
Ian D. Gow, Stuart Kells · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

The accounting oligopoly's economics and conflicts.

What Went Wrong at EnronWhat Went Wrong at Enron
T4 What Went Wrong at Enron
Peter C. Fusaro, Ross M. Miller · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Early energy-market explainer.

Stolen Without a GunStolen Without a Gun
T4 Stolen Without a Gun
Walter Pavlo, Neil Weinberg · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

Insider: a convicted MCI/WorldCom finance manager.

The Audit Failures of the Wirecard Scandal
T4 The Audit Failures of the Wirecard Scandal
Edgar Low, Reinhard Heyd · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

Technical accounting post-mortem.

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