STEWART HAMILTON is Professor of Accounting and Finance at IMD, Switzerland. He has been a senior partner in a UK national accounting firm and has served on the boards of companies in a range of industries. He has acted as a consultant to a number of major European companies and contributed to many books and other publications and written prize-winning cases on Barings and Enron. ALICIA MICKLETHWAIT is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and holds an MBA from IMD, Switzerland. She has held accounting and commercial roles in companies and worked as a member of t

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Barings and Allied Irish Bank: Lessons Ignored Enron: Paper Profits, Cash Losses WorldCom: Disconnected Tyco: Greed, Hubris and the $6000 Shower Curtain Marconi: Establishment to Wunderkind to Basketcase Swissair: Crashed and Burned Royal Ahold: Shopped till he Dropped Parmalat: Milking the System Conclusions Epilogue List of Abbreviations Glossary Index