Passage 1 Bear Market?Some Worry That Beanies Are Ripe for a Fall 1
Passage 2 Big Sugar Seeks Bailout,Gives Money to Help Get Way 5
Passage 3 Vacation-Home Market Is Hot,As Prices Climb 9
Passage 4 A Hot Potato:A Popeyes Chain Frets Over How to Handle a Minimum-pay Rise 13
Passage 5 Microsoft Is Found to Be Predatory Monopolist 17
Passage 6 Smog Swapping:New Rules Harness Power of Free Markets to Curb Air Pollution 21
Passage 7 Insurance History 25
Passage 8 Reinsurance Industry after September 11 29
Passage 9 Insurance ABC 33
Passage 10 Open China's Accounting 37
Passage 11 Global Consequences of International Accounting Diversity 41
Passage 12 The Accountant of the Future 45
Passage 13 A Monetary Fable 49
Passage 14 Wealth Management Forever 53
Passage 15 Deposits Grow Despite Drop in Rates 57
Passage 16 Know-It-Alls 61
Passage 17 Urban Revitalization and Entrepreneurial Strategies 65
Passage 18 Seeking Entrepreneurial Origins:Are Entrepreneurs Born or Made? 69
Passage 19 Wall Street:A Total Eclipse in Sight 73
Passage 20 Staying Afloat 77
Passage 21 Brokerage Joint Venture Partners Take to the Floor 81
Passage 22 National Treatment Principle 85
Passage 23 China Swiftly Becomes an Exporting Colossus,Straining Western Ties 89
Passage 24 Import Regulation Procedures of Mainland China 93
Passage 25 Factoring and Forfaiting 97
Passage 26 The Asian Financial Crisis:Causes and Effects 101
Passage 27 Money Laundering and Financial Crimes 105
Passage 28 Intellectual Property for a Wired World 109
Passage 29 Too Many Rotten Apples 113
Passage 30 Scandals in Corporate America 117
Key to Exercises 121