How companies bury their debt

Key Company Statistics you cannot believe


To hide the facts from shareholders, companies disguise long-term debt, stock-option obligations and other nasty numbers in some creatively tricky ways. Here are some of the biggest offenders:
Key Stats for Walgreen, CVS from Yahoo Finance.


Even the high interest money market funds can be at risk from leveraged asset investments Washingon Post March 14th

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