Download or read book Earnings Magic and the Unbalance Sheet written by Gary Giroux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-03-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Earnings Magic and the Unbalance Sheet "Gary Giroux brings a breezy, entertaining writing style thatreally helps the reader untangle arcane accounting practices,including stock options, pensions, off-balance sheet items, and therest of his 'dirty thirty.'" —Edward Swanson, Durst Chair and Professor of Accounting,Texas A&M University "Earnings Magic and the Unbalance Sheet provides equityinvestors with clear explanations of today's financial environmenttogether with specific analysis tools to assess the quality ofearnings. Gary Giroux provides a valuable and easy-to-use scoringsystem where investors assign grades to help them in theirinvestment decisions. Earnings Magic is a must-read for anyinvestor in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (Dow 30). Girouxthoroughly analyzes some of the biggest and best knowncompanies." —Andrew McLelland, Assistant Professor of Accounting, AuburnUniversity YOUR KEY TO EVALUATING A COMPANY'S EARNINGS QUALITY Wouldn't you like to know as much as you could about a companybefore you invest in it? Financial information on companies isreadily available, but not necessarily easy to interpret. With shrewd tips and state-of-the-art analytical tools,Earnings Magic and the Unbalance Sheet arms you with the keystrategies and principles to help you evaluate whether a company'sbottom line is headed toward excellence or financial abuse. Thiseye-opening guide expertly walks you through the tangle ofpotentially inflated earnings and misleading accounting disclosuresto determine a company's financial reality.

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Download or read book Detecting Earnings Management written by Gary Giroux and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESSENTIAL TOOLS AND STRATEGIES FOR DETECTING MANIPULATION. 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. Detecting Earning Management will help readers: Identify the incentive of management to manipulate earning to promote their own short-term interests. Evaluate the effectiveness of corporate governance to limit short-term manipulation and promote long-term success. Consider whether recent regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, will limit future abuse. Review the major fraud techniques used in the recent and not-so-recent scandals. Identify the potential areas of manipulation and other sources of distortion and develop appropriate detection strategies. Understand the challenging areas that can distort financial reality such as acquisitions, derivatives, and special purpose entities.

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Download or read book Earnings Management written by Joshua Ronen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of earnings management, aimed at scholars and professionals in accounting, finance, economics, and law. The authors address research questions including: Why are earnings so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? How will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers, customers and regulators affect earnings management? How to design empirical research addressing earnings management? What are the limitations and strengths of current empirical models?

Download or read book Accountants Handbook Financial Accounting and General Topics written by D. R. Carmichael and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly regarded reference is relied on by a considerable part of the accounting profession in their day-to-day work. This comprehensive resource is widely recognized and relied on as a single reference source that provides answers to all reasonable questions on accounting and financial reporting asked by accountants, auditors, bankers, lawyers, financial analysts, and other preparers and users of accounting information. The new edition reflects the new FASB Codification, and includes expanded coverage of fair value and guidance on developing fair value estimates, fraud risk and exposure, healthcare, and IFRS.

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