Response to May California CPA article, "from where he sits". (Speak Out!).
Blaming the Enron scandal on inadequate accounting standards is
like blaming 9/11 on bad airport security--neither is the real issue.
What occurred was the circumvention of systems based on longstanding
beliefs that had never been questioned. Let me suggest that what really
needs to be examined is something much broader, i.e. Is the best
business model one where cash dividends are discouraged by having a
corporate level income tax, and investors are expected to get their
entire return from increases in the price of the stock?
Congressman Brad Sherman believes that "the only thing that
will save us" is yet more rules and regulations. I can only recall
this quote, "thinking is hard work, that's why politicians do
so little of it."
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