# First Person: Andy Fastow and Me – CFO

- URL: https://dynamicaccounting.net/first-person-andy-fastow-and-me-cfo/
- Date: 2019-04-30
- Topics: Accounting & Career
- Type: link to an external article
- Source: http://www.cfo.com/risk-compliance/2019/04/first-person-andy-fastow-and-me/

Enron’s former CFO and convicted felon Andrew Fastow talks with the CFO writer who first chronicled his “groundbreaking” manipulation of accounting rules.

> Bethany McLean, co-author (with Peter Elkind) of the book, “The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron,” has stated on more than one occasion that what Fastow perpetrated was “legal fraud,” an oxymoron suggesting that a CFO can follow the rules and exploit them to such an extent that the end result is fraud.
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> http://www.cfo.com/risk-compliance/2019/04/first-person-andy-fastow-and-me/

If your job has anything to do with accounting, in fact, if you’ve ever met an accountant, you should read this article. It’s available at [www.cfo.com/risk-compliance/2019/04/first-person-andy-fastow-and-me/](http://www.cfo.com/risk-compliance/2019/04/first-person-andy-fastow-and-me/)