The Financial Numbers Game

Detecting Creative Accounting Practices

Charles W. Mulford, Eugene E. Comiskey

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
15 September 2005

Financial reporting, financial statements

"Praise for The Financial Numbers Game

""So much for the notion 'those who can, do-those who can't, teach.' Mulford and Comiskey function successfully both as college professors and real-world financial mercenaries. These guys know their balance sheets. The Financial Numbers Game should serve as a survival manual for both serious individual investors and industry pros who study and act upon the interpretation of financial statements. This unique blend of battle-earned scholarship and quality writing is a must-read/must-have reference for serious financial statement analysis."" --Bob Acker, Editor/Publisher, The Acker Letter

""Wall Street's unforgiving attention to quarterly earnings presents ever increasing pressure on CFOs to manage earnings and expectations. The Financial Numbers Game provides a clear explanation of the ways in which management can stretch, bend, and break accounting rules to reach the desired bottom line. This arms the serious investor or financial analyst with the healthy skepticism required to drive beyond reported results to a clear understanding of a firm's true performance."" --Mark Hurley, Managing Director, Training and Development, Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Bank of America

""After reading The Financial Numbers Game, I feel as though I've taken a master's level course in financial statement analysis. Mulford and Comiskey's latest book should be required reading for anyone who is serious about fundamentally analyzing stocks."" --Harry Domash, San Francisco Chronicle investing columnist and investment newsletter publisher"

By: Charles W. Mulford, Eugene E. Comiskey
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 180mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780471770732
ISBN 10: 0471770736
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 15 September 2005
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CHARLES W. MULFORD is Invesco Chair and Professor of Accounting and EUGENE E. COMISKEY is Callaway Chair and Professor of Accounting in the DuPree College of Management at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews for The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices

The author's purpose is to equip the financial statement reader to better detect the use of creative accounting practices and avoid the equity-investment and credit-granting mistakes. A book for it's time ( Strategic Finance, March 2002) With the collapse of Enron Corp., the January debut of the Financial Numbers Game could not have arrived at a more perfect time. The book focuses on educating investors on how to spot creative accounting Practices. Co-Author Charles W. Mulford outlines a few basic guidelines for detecting-and preventing-creative accounting. ( SmartPros/Accounting News and Insights, March 2002)