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Detecting Earnings Management
Gary Giroux
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Description for Detecting Earnings Management
Paperback. This brief and timely text describes the current environment and provides practical details on specific earnings management potential. It shows students how aggressive earnings management can be detected, based on publicly available information. Throughout the text, the authors use multiple perspectives to enhance understanding of the material. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KF; KJG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 192 x 12. Weight in Grams: 516.
As recent corporate scandals prove, corrupt companies can maintain a façade of financial success through manipulation and fraud almost to the day they file for bankruptcy. Fortunately, tools exists to detect aggressive earnings management. This timely book reviews the current environment, explains the tools that can be used to detect a manipulative financial environment, and introduces techniques for recasting financial information to get a truer economic picture. Brief cases reflecting a variety of companies provide a feel for evaluating public data and how earning management potential can be analyzed. In addition, an appendix features a complete earnings management detection checklist that can be used to conduct a thorough analysis of any corporation.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471470861
SKU
V9780471470861
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Gary Giroux
Gary Giroux is Shelton Professor of Accounting at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and has been at Texas A&M for about twenty-five years. He teaches financial analysis and other financial and governmental courses in the undergraduate program. He also teaches research methods in the Ph.D. program. Dr. Giroux has published over fifty articles, including publications in Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and numerous other journals. He is the author of three earlier books, including Dollars & Scholars, Scribes & Bribes: The Story of Accounting and Financial Analysis: A User Approach. His primary research areas are governmental and financial accounting. He also is interested in accounting and business history. He has a number of outside interests, including collecting revenue documents and stamps, reading, golf, and scuba diving. He and his wife Naomi travel regularly, in part based on international research projects and presentations.
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