Did the accounting treatment of financial instruments contribute to the collapse of Lehman Brothers?

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,7, University of Frankfurt (Main), language: English, abstract: The main issue of this working paper is whether the accounting treatment of the Repurchase agreement 105 contributed to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It was questioned how the Repos were used and the following effects over Lehman’s financial stability. ...