Financial Shenanigans, Fourth Edition..., Jeremy Perler
Financial Shenanigans, Fourth Edition..., Jeremy Perler
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Financial Shenanigans, Fourth Edition
How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports

Author: Jeremy Perler, Howard M. Schilit, Yoni Engelhart

Narrator: TBD

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/28/2018


Synopsis



The bestselling classic from the “Sherlock Holmes of Accounting”-updated to reflect the key case studies and most important lessons from the past quarter century.

This fourth edition of the classic guide shines a light on the most shocking frauds and financial reporting offenders of the last twenty-five years, and gives investors the tools they need to detect:

*Corporate cultures that incentivize dishonest practices*The latest tricks companies use to exaggerate revenue and earnings*Techniques devised by management to manipulate cash flow as easily as earnings*Companies that use misleading metrics to fool investors about their financial performance*How companies use acquisitions to hide deterioration in their underlying business

This new edition focuses on the key case studies and most important lessons from the past quarter century, and brings you up to date on accounting chicanery in the global markets. Howard Schilit and his team of renowned forensic accounting experts expose financial reporting miscreants and unveil the latest methods companies use to mislead investors. You’ll learn everything you need to know to unearth deceptive reporting and avoid costly mistakes.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on September 18, 2007

Financial Shenanigans is by Howard Schilit, president of the Center for Financial Research and Analysis. It is a very readable step-by-step guide to detecting fraud by reading financial statements. Most of the big corporate scandals in the past few years have been in one way or another accounting sca......more

Goodreads review by Rohit Kadam on December 24, 2018

What makes this book unique is that there is not a lot of material out there on this topic which is easily relatable to a practicing analyst. While the book could be even mote detailed, I think it serves well to identify and address the main methods companies to use for aggressive accounting to misl......more

Goodreads review by Liew on January 23, 2022

The book provides a comprehensive framework / guide on how companies can dub misinformed or careless investors. Hence, it is quite a technical book if you do not have financial analysis background (for b-sch students, this would be a simple read). As with all technical / theoretical books, it is the......more

Goodreads review by Rabeya on July 17, 2018

Extra one star for the style of presenting the cases and real life situation! Accounting gimmicks and ethical business always been my favourite research area and I never found such an interesing book in this area before! I think the newest edition will also cover changing situation under IFRS vs GAA......more

Goodreads review by InvestingByTheBooks.com on August 21, 2018

Greed is as old as mankind. Unscrupulous people will try to trick others out of their money. One arena for this is the business sector and especially after the IT-crash there was a number of high profile accounting scandals. Financial Shenanigans has become the de-facto standard work on detecting “a......more