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Title: Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting by Samuel A. DiPiazza, Robert G. Eccles ISBN: 0-471-26151-3 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 June, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An Important Read
Comment: Who could have guessed that corporate accounting would ever be the stuff of headlines? Unfortunately, it's a rather dubious distinction coming with the collapses of Enron and Worldcom. The time is nigh for the green eyeshade brigade to respond.
Building Public Trust is just such a response - from the leadership at PricewaterhouseCoopers. But Building Public Trust is not the Big 4 accountancy's knee-jerk defense to distance the firm from the corporate scandals that knocked out its Big 5 brethren, Arthur Andersen. The book goes way beyond proposing stop-gap measures that plug holes in reporting and enforcement. Rather, the authors take a progressive stance that outlines new levels of reporting transparency, accountability and integrity - to shore up investor confidence and stabilize capital markets for the long haul. If you want to understand where corporate reporting SHOULD be headed, check out this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A thoughtful reflection
Comment: Building Public Trust is a thoughtful reflection on the failure of corporate accounting to predict the collapse of Enron and other companies. Its authors - including the ceo of PricewaterhouseCoopers and an ex-professor from Harvard Business School provide a welcome analysis of what's missing in the world of earnings reports. While some of their suggestions state the obvious - that managers should be honest people, for instance - others are more daring. DiPiazza and Eccles propose, for instance, that the internal data managers use to make operational decisions within their company be made available externally. The authors also suggest that each industry follow sector-specific rules, and that accountants be granted more flexibility when they write their audit opinions to reflect what they Really think of the numbers. Let's hope some of our lawmakers take the time to read this.
Rating: 1
Summary: Hollow advice from a company that betrays its own employees
Comment: There is a bitter irony to the heads of PriceWaterhouseCoopers issuing a publication about inspiring trust in the public in large corporations in the wake of Enron and Worldcom scandals when PwC constantly undermines the trust of its own employees. With an infrastructure that makes it nearly impossible for employees to find their own project work and employment practices that left thousands of employees without a job and insufficient experience to get another one (while still continuing to hire new employees), PwC does a horrible job on taking care of those who work for them. In addition, they are just another example of a company that engages in the same shady, conflict-of-interest business practices as Arthur Andersen, yet they just have not been caught yet. Yet, here they are, trying to issue some sort of definitive work about restoring public trust. If a company like this shows no understanding of how to take care of their own employees, how can one even remotely think that they have any business providing a framework of how to take care of the public.
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Title: The ValueReporting Revolution: Moving Beyond the Earnings Game by Robert G. Eccles, Robert H. Herz, E. Mary Keegan, David M. H. Phillips ISBN: 0471398799 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Essentials of XBRL by Bryan Bergeron ISBN: 0471220779 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 31 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices by Charles W. Mulford, Eugene E. Comiskey ISBN: 0471370088 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 18 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, Second Edition by Howard Schilit ISBN: 0071386262 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: What Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone's Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History by Peter C. Fusaro, Ross M. Miller ISBN: 0471265748 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 21 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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