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The Financial Numbers Game

Detecting Creative Accounting Practices

by Charles W. Mulford and Eugene E. Comiskey

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002

Category: Finance

The Financial Numbers Game

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In this summary you will learn

  • how to examine financial statements with prudent skepticism

Why you should read The Financial Numbers Game

A special note in the preface of this book explains that it went to press just as the Enron story was beginning to break. Three of its chapters provide almost all the information anyone would have needed to spot the problems at Enron, not to mention at the other big corporations whose scandals made recent headlines. Spotting fraud isn’t that hard. The authors provide a very useful toolkit that even a novice investor can use. Some of their coverage of the regulatory apparatus will no doubt have to be changed in future editions, as the regulations themselves keep changing, but this enlightening introduction to the nitty-gritty of skeptical financial statement analysis will have enduring utility. It’s written by accountants, so it gets a bit plodding in spots, but their anecdotes relieve the tedium and their information is invaluable. getAbstract.com recommends this reality check for every investor’s bookshelf, as well as every employee’s and every financial reporter’s. Anyone who depends on corporate performance or who uses corporate financial statements should read it.

About the authors

Both authors are professors of accounting in the DuPree College of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. Charles W. Mulford holds the Invesco Chair and Eugene E. Comiskey holds the Callaway Chair. They also wrote Financial Warnings and Guide to Financial Reporting and Analysis.

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