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The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices

ISBN: 978-0-471-77073-2
Paperback
416 pages
September 2005
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  • Updated with an extensive new Forward
  • Now available as a new lower-priced paperback!
  • Describes accounting problems that are so rampant in the business world today.
  • Examples of aggressive and fraudulent revenue recognition and how to detect it.
  • Tells students what to look for as signs of earnings manipulation based on interviews of financial analysts and lenders.
  • Checklists that provides a student-ready instrument for detecting accounting misdeeds.
  • Identifies the steps companies take to misstate financial performance and show how to detect misleading financial statements, including actual company examples.
  • Shows how early detection of misleading financial reports can lead to corrective action and opportunity to avoid negative earnings surprises and share-price declines.
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