Mix murder, audits, dreams, GAAP, roller coasters, scuba diving, and unrestricted funds together to get an exciting way of learning the governmental accounting process. This suspense thriller format provides a painless way of learning fund concepts, not-for-profit practice and procedure, governmental auditing, and real world examples. This gripping novel puts fund accounting into words a novice can understand and enjoy.
Armed only with pencil, paper, and a compact computer, a new breed of accountants is dispelling the traditional image of their profession as dull bean counters wearing long sleeve shirts and green eye-shades. Forensic accountants are the private eyes of the business and governmental worlds. An accountant acts like a watchdog, but a forensic accountant acts like a bloodhound. They are often used in fraud cases to dissect financial statements and locate hidden assets.
Professor Tim Whinney of Ohio University and his friend, Martin Zippa, find the serial murderer in Sherlock Holmes style. Along the way, Martin, a forensic accountant, has his hands full in a governmental audit, which involves fraud. Using old fashioned detective work, Tim and Martin make detection both the art and science that Sherlock made famous.
They follow the money trail and use written records to ferret out the guilty parties.
Although the book contains educational materials, key words, appendices, questions and problems, the plot is a page-turner.
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Authors: D. Larry Crumbley, LSU; Gary Giroux, Texas A&M; Bob Meyers, free-lance writer.
Forensic Accountants in the Literature
