Lights Out
Book description
This is the definitive history of General Electric's epic decline, as told by the two Wall Street Journal reporters who covered its fall.
Since its founding in 1892, GE has been more than just a corporation. For generations, it was job security, a solidly safe investment, and an elite business…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Lights Out as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a deeply researched and highly readable story of hubris and nemesis at a business giant.
It includes the role of accounting manipulation in its startling narrative of the rise and decline of GE, at its peak the most valuable company in the world, led by a CE dubbed the ‘manager of the century’. Important in its rise was a focus on ‘the all-important [accounting] earnings per share results that made Wall Street swoon’, resulting in a high and rising share price and the highest credit rating – both facilitating a spree of mergers (almost 1,000 in the two…
From Geoff's list on accounting for M&A.
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