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linkregisterlast Thursday at 5:28 PM1 replyview on HN

The essence of the Enron scandal was the perpetration of accounting fraud. It took down Arthur Andersen. We went from the "Big 5" accounting firms to the "Big 4" because of this. They very much violated GAAP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal


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