If you didn't get a chance to read my column in the National Post this week - and still have an appetite for more Nortel Networks information - here's some weekend reading material on the company's growing "Americanization".

Is Nortel Networks Corp. in the midst of being Americanized?
It is a legitimate question given the only Canadians on the overhauled senior management team are chief financial officer Peter Currie and chief research officer Brian McFadden. The rest of the team lives in places such as San Diego, Seattle, San Jose and New York when they are not flying around the ...   more »

As it promised, Nortel filed its 10-K by the end of the April with the SEC. But no one gets to see the actual numbers until early Monday morning. This leaves analysts - and the media - with just a couple of hours to pore through the document before an 8 a.m. conference call. Not that I'm an expert in investor relations but this whole "file late Friday night but you can't get the numbers for another 60 or so hours" seems unorthodox. Given the accounting scandal, you know Nortel wants to dot the "I's" and cross the "T's" before it releases any financial information. But it also has to balance its internal needs with the expectations of the investment community. There were assumptions the financial results would be available some time during the last week of April. Nortel only disappointed people who don't need any more ammunitiion to dismiss how it operates. That said, Nortel management has the right to do things the way it wants - even if does piss people people off. From my perspective, the company's behaviour is puzzling but far from maddening. Nortel's got far more pressing and troubling strategic challenges than making sure it gets financial results out on time.