Talk:Enron

Send to fun? Delete?--Bob^{Bring back the hat!} 22:43, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

I would say delete but we shuld have a good Enron article. Anyone know enough to start one? Aceⁱ⁹ 22:48, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Delete and put it on To Do.--Tom Moore^{fiat justitia} 22:52, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Lukewarm delete here. While this talk is active, any thoughts on having a [[Category:Business shenanigans]] [[Category:Talk pages for deleted articles]]? That other 419-scam article might could go there too. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 22:59, 7 January 2010 (UTC)

Crap: space or Memoryhole: space. And that's a great category name, please do go forth and implement - David Gerard (talk) 12:12, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Deleted

There was nothing here but a small...errr....well wanst a haiku but a small poem. Ace^X-102 12:19, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

We could salvage it with this. Specifically: ENRON CORPORATION -- You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public buys your bull. ^theist 12:33, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

Mark-to-Market accounting

This was one of the underlying principles that inflated Enron's stock price and hid the cash-flow problems. There's a certain woo behind it as opposed to the traditional Mark-to-Model accounting strategy, for this very reason. Does anyone know enough about it to write about it? All I know is from reading 24 Days. -- Seth Peck (talk) 21:32, 19 January 2012 (UTC)