A New Way To Peel The Orange: Changes In Segment Reporting: Analysts have long been confounded by the profusion of business segments within multi-industry firms. Just as the segments of an orange combine to form a whole fruit, so …
Archive | February, 1996
Volume 5, No. 2
Seeing The Whole Elephant: Changing Consolidation Practices: Three blind men once touched an elephant: each one thought the elephant was a different animal depending on the part he touched. Their impressions, of course, were utterly wrong: the elephant was …