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More About This Title PIGS AT THE TROUGH: LESSONS FROM AUSTRALIA'S DECADE OF CORPORATE GREED
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From Telstra's enriching of Sol Trujillo to the toppling of Eddy Groves's ABC Learning Centres and the untold accounts of the billions lost by the collapsed Babcock & Brown, Allco Finance Group and MFS, Pigs at the Trough tells the story of how a generation of executives, under the supervision of well-known and respected non-executive directors, pushed all the boundaries and sometimes sailed right over them ... and got away with it.
A pacey, irreverent read but with a devastatingly serious message, Pigs at the Trough gives investors invaluable insights into how to spot the telltale signs of impending corporate collapse, and how to avoid being another victim.
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Acknowledgements.
Preface.
1 Telstra.
Dialling up a loser.
2 ABC Learning Centres.
How Australia's richest man under 40 built a childcare empire on foundations of sand.
3 MFS.
How the Gold Coast white shoe brigade got a second chance - and blew it.
4 Village Roadshow.
How the Kirbys became their own leading men.
5 Toll and Asciano.
For whom the cash tolls.
6 Allco.
A fall from grace.
7 Babcock & Brown.
How the house of cards of Australia's financial engineers came crashing down.
8 Timbercorp and Great Southern Plantations.
Australia's rural tax rort comes up a cropper.
Epilogue.
Notes.
Index.
