Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off-Balance Sheet Accounting

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J. Edward Ketz (The Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University)

Hidden Financial Risk

Understanding Off-Balance Sheet Accounting

J. Edward Ketz (The Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University)

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
02 July 2003

Crime & criminology; Accounting

An insider's guide to understanding and eliminating accounting fraud

How do these high-profile accounting scandals occur and what could have been done to prevent them. Hidden Financial Risk fills that void by examining methods for off balance sheet accounting, with a particular emphasis on special purpose entities (SPE), the accounting ruse of choice at Enron and other beleaguered companies. J. Edward Ketz identifies the incentives for managers to deceive investors and creditors about financial risk and also shows investors how to protect their investments in a world filled with accounting and auditing frauds.

J. Edward Ketz, PhD (State College, PA) is MBA Faculty Director and Associate Professor of Accounting at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He has been cited in the press nearly 300 times since Enron's bankruptcy, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.. He has a regular column in Accounting Today.

By: J. Edward Ketz (The Smeal College of Business at the Pennsylvania State University)
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 260mm, Width: 184mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 756g
ISBN: 9780471433767
ISBN 10: 0471433764
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 02 July 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"J. EDWARD KETZ, PhD, is MBA Faculty Director and Associate Professor of accounting at Penn State's Smeal College of Business. He has been cited in the press over 500 times since Enron's bankruptcy, and is well known as an accounting expert as attested in writings, vast citations in the press and on television, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His column ""Accounting Annotations"" is published in Accounting Today and his column ""Accounting Cycle: Wash, Rinse, and Spin"" appears regularly at SmartPros.com. He is also the author of Bridge Accounting: Procedures, Systems, and Controls (Wiley)."

Reviews for Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding Off-Balance Sheet Accounting

Ketz discussion is fascinating, although all too useful to future scamsters wanting to find out just how those clever guys at Enron did it. (UPI Business and Economics, August 11, 2003)