Try an exciting, new approach. Golden Spire is a supplementary text to be used near the end of a principles of accounting course or at the beginning of an intermediate accounting course. It would be ideal for an MBA program which has a light coverage of accounting. It could also be used in CPA firms’ in-house training programs.
Lenny Cramer, a professor at Wharton’s School of Finance, operates a small forensic accounting firm. He teaches, testifies before Congress, and appears as an expert witness in a court battle. The real action occurs when he investigates fraud in a friend’s jade shop. This investigative accountant uncovers a plot to steal treasures from a socialistic Asian country.
Featuring a sleuth and a con-man who handle balance sheets and income statements the way most detectives handle guns, the humorous characters put accounting and business concepts into real-life individual and business decisions. Along the way business practices and political controversies, contemporary and individual and corporate planning, tax fraud and avoidance, and consultants are elucidated in a way both students and instructors will find gripping as well as informative.
The novel approach is an excellent substitution for a dull practice set, and is a flexible teaching tool to overcome boredom in the classroom. The concepts and attitudes a novel teaches last long after the facts are gone.
How to order: Thomas Horton & Daughters, PO Box 23, Glen Ridge, NJ 07028, 973-566-9998, Fax: 973-429-1893. (ISBN 0-913878-54-5)
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