Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Here's the question. Tell me if you think this is overly combative or merits (say) nuclear level response. Grubman asks why Enron, unlike 99% of other companies out there, when they report earnings, why do they only report an income statement, and they don't report their balance sheet or cash flow statement? Those things only get reported, Ben, like you said earlier in the episode, weeks or months later in the SEC official 10-Q and 10-K filings. Why don't you report it all at once like everybody else? I think his literal words, he says, you seem to be the only financial institution incapable of producing a balance sheet with earnings. Okay, so maybe like a little flip.…

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