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Toshiba scandal: digging into the numbers

Toshiba is making headlines over intentional inflation of profits. But its accounts should have raised significant red flags on closer inspection.

Published Sun, Aug 2, 2015 · 09:50 PM
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"PLEASE buy me one million shares of Toshiba, ticker code: 6502." That was the institutional buy order that kick-started my professional buy-side career. The first stock I bought was Toshiba Corp, back in July 1995.

Toshiba was a blue chip listed on the Tokyo stock exchange and a component stock of the Nikkei 225 index.

I thought a rookie like me had better stick with a big-cap conglomerate like Toshiba.

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