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Overstock.com and its phony earnings figures

20 August 2007 14 August 2011 5

Today on the White Collar Fraud Blog, Sam Antar has the first part of a three part series on the inventory numbers at Overstock.com. It’s curious how Overstock’s inventory numbers always seem to create more questions than they answer. Sam has some insight into this. As the former CFO of …

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