MF Global: The Accounting Error That Wasn’t
Posted by Larry Doyle on April 4th, 2012 12:24 PM |
What really transpired in the offices of MF Global over that last fateful week?
On October 24th, the firm was downgraded by Moody’s. A week later, the once venerable house known as MF Global declared bankruptcy. Who knew what, and when did they know it? How did hundreds of millions of dollars of customer funds go missing? The best accounting and “follow the money” reporting I have seen to date is provided by a Sense on Cents favorite, CFO, which writes:
While securities dealer MF Global was melting down financially, the company’s finance and treasury departments — in conjunction with futures-market regulators — were on the hunt for the accounting error that wasn’t. (more…)
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