[gandalfian]

And Enron, Olympus, bt, WorldCom, Tesco, those people who bought dragon dictate and the African firm whose balance sheet was entirely supported by a large green gemstone. Just to name a few off the top of my head. Trying to work out a firm's true assets, liabilities and income is a genuine problem.

[thesz]

By referring to large green gemstone, do you refer to The Hot Rock novel main plot goal? If so, it is unbelievably appropriate.

[neximo64]

What’s this gemstone company?

[gandalfian]

Turns out it was red, but was an £8000 african stone but ended up in an english company as a 200,000 stone and then transferred to a bankrupt english construction firm as an 11 million pound asset! Ended in tears. Unclear what eventually happened to the stone. https://www.google.com/search?q=Gem+of+Tanzania