When accounting goes unaccounted for
“They will help investors to better understand off-balance sheet risks, and to alert them to the possibility of so-called window dressing transactions occurring at the end of a reporting period.”
~ Sir David Tweedie talking up the new rules that were published by the IASB today.
“How about the fact that you sold hundreds of millions of that deal after your people knew it was a shitty deal? Does that bother you at all?”
– Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) to Goldman Sachs’ Daniel Sparks, regarding SEC allegations that Goldman Sachs sold knowingly shitty CDOs to clients.
Anyone?
If you want to call attention to bullshit political games, we humbly suggest, “bullshit political games.” Not this:
“This is a huge loophole for Enron-type accounting … In the rule they pass tomorrow they are going to reiterate that the chair of the budget committee has the authority to come up with his own estimate of the budget impact of various pieces of legislation.”
So aggressive revenue recognition, abusing mark-to-market accounting and SPEs = marginalizing the Congressional Budget Office. Got it?
Dems Accuse GOP Of ‘Enron-Type Accounting’ And Assaults On CBO [HuffPo]
“The point is that I’m not a real small businessman, but I play one in anti-tax propaganda.”
~ The Professor was a little too sarcastic the first go round.