The Corporate Cleanup Goes Global: But not all reforms will follow the U.S. model

For decades, U.S. executives and powerful fund managers have lectured the Europeans and Japanese about the need to run their corporations according to the transparent U.S. model. Now come the Enron and Arthur Andersen scandals, together with less sordid disclosures about questionable accounting prac...

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Published in:Bloomberg businessweek (Online) 2002-05 (3781), p.80
Main Author: John Rossant in Paris, with Jack Ewing in Frankfurt, Brian Bremner in Tokyo, and bureaus reports
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