Financial shenanigans - Schilit, Howard Mark, 1952- (New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill, 2002)
You can fool some of the people all of the time -- Seek and ye shall find -- Searching for shenanigans -- Recording revenue too soon or of questionable quality -- Recording bogus revenue -- Boosting income with one-time gains -- Shifting expenses to a later (or earlier) period -- Failing to record (or eliminating) liabilities -- Shifting current revenue to a later or earlier period -- Shifting future expenses to current period -- Screening for shenanigans -- Analyzing financial reports : comprehensive checklist of warning signs -- Acquisition accounting tricks -- Revenue recognition issues -- History of financial shenanigans -- Leading the battle against shenanigans.
Includes index.
Keywords: Misleading financial statements; Fraud