The Transform Accounting blog is usually about;
– The latest finance news,
– Hints and tips to help you pay less tax or save money,
– Accounting guides for small business owners,
– Articles about the world of investing,
But we also like to blog about some more light hearted items with a finance theme.
At Transform Accounting, we love a top 10 list as much as anybody.
To follow on from our series about our top 10 finance books, we now turn our attention to movies with a finance theme.
We will be counting down from 10 to 1, giving some movie reviews of our favourite 10 finance movies. All are worth checking out and those at the top of the list are a must see.
If you want to read more reviews, or view the movie trailers for free, we recommend Internet Movie Database at www.imdb.com
Here is the sixth in a series of ten movie recommendations. Be sure to check back for the rest of the series.
6 – Margin Call (2011)
Margin Call features a star-studded cast including Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore and UK actor Paul Bettany.
It is set in the aggressive world of investment banking on the eve of impending financial disaster when a young risk analyst discovers that the highly leveraged trading positions of the bank have left it exposed to a potential and imminent collapse.
What follows is a long night of panicked double checking and escalation to senior management before the decision is made to do anything, ethical or otherwise to save the bank by unleashing a firestorm in the financial world. This brings on moral and ethical issues for the traders who have to sacrifice both their clients and their own future careers to offload the toxic assets held by the bank as quickly as possible to anyone who will take them.
Margin Call is a truly fascinating insight into the world of investment banking during the time of chaos and financial collapse. The plotline was clearly inspired by the recent financial meltdown and in particular Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns and AIG.
Accountant Epping – Transform Accounting – Essex Accountant