Ebook: The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers

Corporate reporting then and now : a century of "progress" -- And you thought earnings are the bottom line -- The widening chasm between financial information and stock prices -- Worse than at first sight -- Investors' fault or accounting's? -- Finally, for the still unconvinced -- The meaning of it all -- The rise of intangibles and fall of accounting -- Accounting : facts or fiction? -- Sins of omission and commission -- What really matters to investors (and managers) -- Strategic resources & consequences report: Case no. I -- Media and entertainment -- Strategic resources & consequences report: Case no. 2 -- Property and casualty insurance -- Strategic resources & consequences report: Case no. 3 -- Pharmaceutics and biotech -- Strategic resources & consequences report: Case no. 4 -- Oil and gas companies -- Implementation -- So, what to do with accounting? A reform agenda -- Investors' operating instructions.