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Former CFO Aaron Beam Revisits the HealthSouth Accounting Fraud

September 19, 2020 • Mark Gandy and Bruce Reed • Season 1 • Episode 17

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If you were asked to cook the books, would you? That's the situation Aaron Beam found himself in when his CEO told him to fix the numbers to appease Wall Street investors. Aaron is the author of HealthSouth: The Wagon to Disaster. Aaron joins us to talk about his role in the fraud, ethics, intimidating CEOs, and so much more.