How Lehman Brothers Reduced its Balance Sheet and Leverage

(via myinvestingnotebook.blogspot.com)

A walk through of how Lehman used repo accounting to. This post including sample balance sheets and clear explains the difference between financing and sale accounting with and without debt repurchases. A must read for anyone wanting to understand what happened and how easily leverage can (and is) hidden.

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