In some parts of the City of London, a sense of disbelief greeted the news last year that Hewlett-Packardhad agreed to pay $11bn for Autonomy, a British software company that had traded for half that value barely six months before.
在伦敦金融城(City of London),有一些人曾对去年的一条消息心存疑惑。当时,美国公司惠普(Hewlett-Packard)同意支付110亿美元收购英国软件公司Autonomy,而在消息公布的6个月前,该英国公司的市值仅为这一收购价的一半。
“This deal defies logic, wrote Paul Morland, analyst at Peel Hunt, a UK brokerage. “We believe HP shareholders should be worried.
“这笔交易不符合逻辑,英国证券经纪公司Peel Hunt的分析师保罗·莫兰德(Paul Morland)当时写道,“我们认为,惠普股东应对此感到担忧。
Quite how much they should have worried has now been revealed. HP yesterday wrote down the value of its software business by $8.8bn, with more than $5bn of that due to alleged “serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations at Autonomy before the company was acquired.
他们应该担心到什么程度呢?现在这个问题有了答案。惠普近日将旗下软件业务的价值减记88亿美元,其中超过50亿美元要归咎于Autonomy在被收购前涉嫌存在“严重会计违规行为、披露不到位以及彻底的不实陈述。
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