Wednesday, August 25, 2010

MLB Confidential: The Financial Documents Baseball Doesn't Want You To See, Part 1

MLB Confidential: The Financial Documents Baseball Doesn't Want You To See, Part 1:

From Deadspin. A definite class assignment will be to value the various firms!

"...take a look at the documents below, paying close attention to the teams' operating income, their revenue-sharing figures, the size of their TV deals, and the amortization of player contracts (a neat trick of accounting pioneered by Bill Veeck that allows an owner to turn his team into a lucrative tax shelter). If there is a thread running through all of these financial statements, it is the incredible ability of baseball teams — whether they're winners or losers, big market or small, 'rich' or 'poor' — to make their owners a fat pile of money.

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