Show HN: Free 30-year financial statements visualization
I'm reminded of an analysis I heard about GE from a friend of mine in finance. He said for a while (many years ago) everyone knew the earnings were cooked because the consistent performance was basically impossible, but everyone was making money and went along with it. He said one way they were able to cover their tracks is every so often changing their accounting methodologies enough so that long term comparisons like this were rendered useless for forensic accounting purposes. I find that all very interesting if it's true.