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2 Oct 2006, 6:04 am
Tracy Coenen gives a brief overview of how executives can get six years in federal prison and two years of full-time community service posted at Sequence Inc.. [read post]
10 Nov 2008, 5:17 pm
"Journalists, bloggers, and others who dared to expose misdeeds by Overstock.com's unprincipled management team have faced a vicious retaliatory smear campaign orchestrated by CEO Patrick Byrne with the collusion of his paid shills: cyberstalker Judd Bagley, Mark Mitchell (former Columbia Journalism Review reporter who left CJR under mysterious circumstances), and message board trolls Dave Patch and Evren Karpak.Journalists Gary Weiss, Herb Greenberg, Joe Nocera, Floyd Norris, Roddy Boyd,… [read post]
3 Mar 2010, 11:31 pm
FitzPatrick, acclaimed forensic accountant and book author Tracy Coenen, best-selling author and former investigative journalist William Lobdell (who now writes for iBusiness Reporting, a blog funded by Fraud Discovery), and an anonymous Yahoo message board poster. [read post]
22 Dec 2010, 12:46 am
The panel, which will include Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly, Francine McKenna (re: The Auditors) , Mike Koehler (aka the "FCPA Professor"), Francis Pileggi (Delaware corporate law guru), Tracy Coenen (The Fraud Files), Lyle Roberts (The 10b-5 Daily) and Securities Docket’s Bruce Carton, will look back at 2010? [read post]
3 Nov 2009, 6:49 pm
Instead, Overstock.com falsely claimed that a "gain contingency" existed and improperly reported such income on a non-GAAP cash basis in future accounting periods In effect, Overstock.com improperly created a "cookie jar reserve" to inflate earnings in future reporting periods (details here).Note: I recommend reading forensic accountant and author Tracy Coenen's blog on how cookie jar reserves work.For example, the company should have reported a Q4 2008… [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 1:53 am
Updated at bottom of blog post to include analyst downgrade Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK), also known as O.co, faces possible insolvency if current earnings trends continue and it cannot restructure two loans with U.S. [read post]
26 Nov 2009, 7:15 pm
(Note: I recommend reading forensic accountant and author Tracy Coenen's blog for an explanation of how cookie jar reserves work.) [read post]
14 Dec 2009, 12:57 am
Note: For additional details, please read Gary Weiss blog, Tracy Coenen's Fraud Files blog, Joe Weisenthal's Business Insider blog, Felix Salmon's Reuters blog, and Barry Ritholtz's The Big Picture blog. [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 1:05 am
Last week, I suggested that j2 Global Communications Inc. [read post]
4 May 2009, 4:29 am
Updated Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) and its management team led by its CEO and masquerading stock market reformer Patrick Byrne (pictured on right) continued its pattern of false and misleading disclosures and departures from Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in its latest Q1 2009 financial report.In Q1 2009, Overstock.com reported a net loss of $2.1 million compared to $4.7 million in Q1 2008 and claimed an earnings improvement of $2.6 million. [read post]
26 Oct 2008, 5:58 am
Tracy Coenen, an acclaimed forensic accountant and author observed in her blog:Since 2000, Overstock.com has never had a profitable year. [read post]
23 Nov 2008, 4:54 am
This blog was first in exposing how Overstock.com used a non-compliant EBITDA measure to overstate its financial performance from Q2 2007 to Q2 2008.Other bloggers, such as forensic accountant Tracy Coenen, NY Times columnist Floyd Norris, and investigative reporter Gary Weiss also reported about Overstock.com's non-compliant EBITDA measures, too. [read post]
21 Nov 2009, 4:14 pm
To the Securities and Exchange Commission: On November 18, 2009, Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) held conference call where CEO Patrick M. [read post]
