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D. Larry Crumbley
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November 7, 2003
The Louisiana CPA Society has released a 2004
calendar starring accountants with hobbies like
scuba diving, whitewater rafting, or experimental
plane flying. Only one CPA professor made the
calendar – D. Larry Crumbley, KPMG Endowed
Professor at LSU’s Ourso College of Business
Administration.
Although Crumbley has bungee jumped 36-stories
at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, traveled to 97 countries,
and scuba dived with more than 200 sharks at a
number of exotic dive sites, his turn as Mr. September
highlights his more mysterious pursuits. Shown
in the calendar wearing his trademark black fedora
and peering through a magnifying glass, Crumbley
is the author of several suspense novels featuring
forensic accountants as the heroes. Crime-fighting
CPAs track down fraud, embezzlement, and other
illegal activities in Crumbley’s fictional
pages, while the very realistic tenets of forensic
accounting – investigative auditing and
litigation services – take center stage
in textbooks such as Crumbley’s latest,
Forensic and Investigative Accounting. Crumbley
also has his eye on Hollywood, with two movie
scripts completed and a goal to create a television
series based on the life of a forensic accountant.
Forensic accounting is on everyone’s list
of hot topics. The Tyco President’s $2 million
birthday party for his wife, Enron, WorldCom,
and Fannie May debacles have changed the accounting
landscape forever. Finding fraud has become increasingly
difficult in the wake of these scandals. As Crumbley
explains to his students, “finding fraud
is like taking a metal detector to a garbage dump
to look for rare coins. You get a lot of false
hits.”
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