BOOK: The Snowball

Posted on April 12th, 2006

Enron was running at full tilt. Enron Global Power and Pipelines, a company formed to purchase assets from Enron, was doing bad deals. One of my favorite accounting problems was this company’s failure to immediately record expenses related to project bids they lost. Instead of booking the costs right away (as they should have), they created an accrual that was internally referred to as “the snowball”. Ain’t that the truth!

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