Unaccountable Accounting: Games Accountants Play [Hardcover]

Abraham J. Briloff (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 365 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins; 1st edition (January 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060104716
• ISBN-13: 978-0060104719
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,345,481 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Probably As Pertinent As Ever, December 13, 2001

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J. Reynolds (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unaccountable Accounting: Games Accountants Play (Hardcover)

I remember this interesting book from the 1970s. It begins with a corporate president interviewing three auditing firm representatives. The president asks, "How much is two plus two?"

#1 replies, "It's four."
#2 replies, "It ranges from three to five."
#3 replies, "What do you want it to be?"

Just guess who got the engagement. Given the recent fiasco at Enron, and the stuff that's starting to emerge over Arthur Andersen's ebola-virus-meltdown of an audit at Enron, "Unaccountable Accounting" might offer information that is as pertinent as ever in the book-cooking world of big business.

P.S. It's a good thing Andersen is a partnership, and not a publicly-held company. That way, there won't be a whole lot of damage to the public when the firm gets sued into oblivion over this Enron mess.