Not only did Xu Tongying send the group as promised, but the number of people in the group far exceeded Lao Bai and others' expectations, with nearly 30 people in the group.
Lao Bai asked Dong Qiangqiang if he had brought it with him, but he politely declined because he was concerned about his college notice. Lao Bai did not force him and asked him to ask if Du Lan had any schedule. Unexpectedly, Du Lan failed two subjects this semester due to insufficient review. One of them was the second time he failed. Considering that the exams at the Technical University of Munich have always been in hell mode, and if he failed three re-examinations for the same course, he would have to face the embarrassing situation of changing majors, Du Lan did not dare to take this last opportunity lightly and could only He declined Lao Bai's invitation and stayed in Munich to prepare for exams and work part-time. Finally, Dong Qiangqiang contacted Ding Haifeng from Göttingen, and Lao Bai finally gathered the "Dragon Balls" and took Lei Lanting and Tong Lele on the journey to join Lao Ding in Italy.
Tong Lele will send travel photos at a fixed time every day, and Dong Qiangqiang will write a travel blog based on the content of the photos. When the mood strikes, he will also make up some unnecessary plots to make the whole journey thrilling and funny. Writing an article in two or three days can be regarded as a change of mind.
The growth of Lebai's registered users is still slow. From time to time, visitors will leave a few words on the forum. Dong Qiangqiang answers netizens' questions seriously every time. Lao Bai would occasionally use the ID of "Little Lion" to tease him, and he would pretend to reply a few words.
In Dong Qiangqiang's impression, old people like to say: when people get older, time will pass faster and faster.
He had no feeling about this at first, but when he arrived in Germany, he discovered that this statement was a truth that did not need to be self-proven. In addition to psychological effects, he felt that the fundamental reason why time passed so fast was that he was old and no longer interested in many things.
The days of waiting for the notice were boring. He completed the work at hand step by step every day, trying to pass the time with work.
After getting up in the morning, it’s time to read the newspaper. Because he no longer attended preparatory courses and was worried that his hearing would deteriorate, he searched for a website that broadcast European financial news on the Internet. He insisted on sharpening his ears for 30 minutes to an hour every day, and then searched for all U.S. stock listings that had used Arthur Andersen's auditing or consulting services. company.
In the afternoon, he usually reads the short-selling report on the "Stock Lemon" website, then compares the parts of the report that he does not understand, then checks the US accounting standards, and records the other party's "criticism" ideas and key points. Usually after reading 3-4 reports , he would put down the report, or go to Lebai's website to reply, or talk to Du Lan on the phone for a few minutes, or send short-selling reports to more investment institutions as requested by Duanmu.
Since the software he customized before could not automatically search for audit firms of listed companies, he could only manually search for the financial reports of US listed companies, and then check one by one whether the audit reports of these companies were made by Arthur Andersen. The whole process does not contain any technical content, it just takes time.
Considering the importance of the Nasdaq market and its alarming decline in the past two years, Dong Qiangqiang prioritized targeting Nasdaq-listed companies.
Duanmu had previously agreed to find interns to help him complete some of the work. He originally planned to ask Lu Wei and Lei Lanting to do it, but Lei Lanting left with Lao Bai, and Lu Wei had no news. As a last resort, Dong Qiangqiang had to find Dong Yiqing. He and Wang Shunan asked Dong Yiqing to help contact three Chinese students from Han University. With five people together, the progress of the work was not too far behind.
Although there are enough interns, the content of the internship has been summarized by Dong Qiangqiang into the simplest fool-proof steps: 1. Find a Nasdaq-listed company. 2. Download the annual financial report from its official website. 3. Determine the name of the company’s audit agency in the past three years. 4. If the other party has revealed a financial fraud scandal, record the name of the company that has audited the company. In the past, there were an average of hundreds of financial frauds in the U.S. stock market every year. Arthur Andersen was not the only audit firm that was exposed. Now that Andersen is bankrupt, listed companies can only choose new partners from the remaining major audit firms. But The other four companies are also not ice souls. After all, how can you walk by the river without getting your shoes wet, so Dong Qiangqiang wants to make a list of auditing companies that have had financial problems as soon as possible.
But before the list was made, Dong Qiangqiang discovered several problems.
First of all, not everyone has sufficient financial knowledge. Not to mention the initial rush, the working status and results of interns after simple training are not ideal. Secondly, the monthly remuneration of 400 euros per person means that the interns do not work full-time for 8 hours a day, but only 3 hours per day. When shorter working hours and unskilled interns are combined, unsatisfactory work performance is the natural result. At the same time, the total monthly cost of five interns is 2,000 euros, which is also a big expense for Qiao Chan. Not to mention Duanmu, even Dong Qiangqiang will unconsciously expect that there will be more behind such efforts. Many rewards. However, a week later, everyone found only two listed companies that had used Arthur Andersen, one of which had just declared bankruptcy at the end of July.
In addition, there is another very embarrassing problem when hiring acquaintances to work for you. Sometimes you need to lower your face to discuss some issues or point out some mistakes. However, Dong Qiangqiang has no management experience before and is thin-skinned. In the end, he often feels embarrassed to point out other people's mistakes in person. , but can only work overtime and redo what the interns did not do well. They are so exhausted that they are half dead and have not yet produced anything.
For the first time, he realized that when doing business, you should not just ask friends for help. Even if you are only at the executive level, you need to find professionals to do professional things.
But the problem is not entirely his. If their software had a useful search function, this problem might not cause any trouble anymore.
He had actually posted job advertisements for programmers a long time ago, not only online but also offline in several places. However, a week passed and there were no applicants. Not even a resume or a consultation call was received.
He suspected that someone had torn up his recruitment advertisement, so he went to check several places where advertisements were posted every day, but every time the advertisements were safe and sound, without any damage or disappearance.
Although Hans actively helped him contact him, the computer geek Gert Becht still had nothing to say. The matter of recruiting programmers just hangs there, unable to move forward.
Dong Qiangqiang finally even considered using a labor agency to find programmers, but Duanmu rejected his suggestion because the cost was too high.
Qu Shan made a special trip to call Dong Qiangqiang and told him that some of his preparatory students had received notices of economics majors from East Germany and South Germany universities. This made Dong Qiangqiang even more anxious. He looked forward to it every day and even sent emails and phone calls to the universities to inquire. , but the university either told him to be patient and wait patiently, or told him that the notice had been sent.
Dong Qiangqiang didn't receive any of them, and Wang Shunan was not as lucky as him.
Before the second week of August, she had already received four rejection letters. The content is also the same: her grades are not good enough.
In other words, studying medicine in Germany only requires the best of the best students.
Wang Shunan seemed fine, but Dong Qiangqiang suspected that she was suppressing her sadness.
After the promulgation, executives of U.S. listed companies were required to swear an oath that the financial information submitted by the companies they serve to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is true and reliable and does not contain any fraud.
Compared with Vivendi's long-awaited second quarter report, which has yet to be released, HealthSouth, a company in the Cicada Active Position, released its second quarter report as scheduled. The report stated that the company's profits for the year may be affected by the adjustment policy for the amount of U.S. senior medical insurance premiums. significantly reduce. However, according to Duanmu Research, it has been more than half a year since the U.S. senior medical insurance premium adjustment policy was promulgated. At this time, it seems like making a fuss out of a molehill, and it is more like making excuses to cover up the decline of its business. And no matter how you analyze it, it is definitely not good for investors to take the initiative to be short on the future market, so it is not surprising that Southern Health's stock price fell in response.
Duanmu had previously bet 100,000 euros on the put option of Southern Health Care, which was second only to Vivendi, but he never waited for it to fall. Now he is finally looking forward to it, and in his words, he feels proud and gratified that all the hardships have been paid off.
At this point, all the listed companies that had been Arthur Andersen's historical customers in the first phase of Qichan's investment were not spared, and all of them exploded. Except for the put options of American Waste Management Company and United Capital Investment Company, which have not seen any movement, the total floating profit on the books of other put options has reached nearly 450,000 euros. As the U.S. stock market continues to decline, both men feel the burden on their shoulders is less heavy.
But Dong Qiangqiang didn't have time to be happy for long. On a sunny day, he received notification letters from the University of Mannheim, the University of Frankfurt and the University of Bonn at the same time.
He opened the letter excitedly, but was shocked to read the familiar rejection words.
The rejection letter hit Dong Qiangqiang like a hammer. He couldn't understand why he couldn't apply for a major with a score of 1.7.
He reluctantly called the above-mentioned school again, but the German politely rejected him again.
Only then did Dong Qiangqiang realize Wang Shunan's state of mind and the ridiculousness of his advice to Wang Shunan. He suddenly became uninterested in everything. He neither wanted to touch the short-selling report nor read the stock price, nor was he in the mood to catch pigs in the wild boar forest or relax in Wilhelmshaven. .
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Dong Qiangqiang, who was so bright and shining, just disappeared.
Du Lan knew that he was high-spirited and worried that he would not be able to accept such a blow, so he could only persuade him with good words. Finally, in order to enlighten him, he somehow recommended a Hong Kong drama to him.
For three days in a row, Dong Qiangqiang sat on the bed with his computer and watched the show day and night. Looking at the heroic Louis Koo on TV, he felt like a pool of stagnant water, like a piece of mud, and he was about to completely stink.
He found it on the Internet and read it without sleep or food.
Just when he finally finished reading, Lu Shan arrived in Germany.
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