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To: Ali Chen who wrote (165428)5/28/2002 1:16:21 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
Ali, one of the shady strategies Enron employed was the hiding of debt by transferring it to supposedly independent private partnerships. Another was exaggerating revenue on contracts by counting the gross value of the contract, not the net value. Both are described here:

forbes.com

How the heck would expensing stock options prevent such shady strategies like these?

Tenchusatsu