Accosting the Golden Spire: A Financial Accounting Action Adventure - Softcover

Crumbley, D. Larry; Betts, Christine; Mastrolia, Stacy; Sarikas, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1531012647 ISBN 13: 9781531012649

Publisher: Carolina Academic Press, 2019

Synopsis

Accosting the Golden Spire, Fourth Edition mixes financial fraud, crime, ethics, and accounting practice together to provide a better way of learning the accounting process. Featuring a sleuth who handles balance sheets and income statements the way most detectives handle guns, Lenny Cramer and his humorous sidekick put accounting and business concepts into real-life context. Dr. Cramer, a professor at the Wharton School, operates a small forensic accounting firm. He teaches, testifies before Congress, and appears as an expert witness in a court battle. But the real action occurs when he investigates financial fraud in a friend s jade shop. Using his forensic skills, he uncovers a plot to steal treasures from a remote Asian country and almost gets himself killed trying to stop the heist. Golden Spire is an educational novel designed as a supplement to financial accounting courses and professional ethics seminars at either the undergraduate or graduate level. It has been used successfully near the end of principles of accounting, at the beginning of intermediate accounting, and as basis for the discussion of professional codes of conduct in an accounting ethics course. The supplement would also be ideal for an MBA program which has a light coverage of accounting, or in CPA firms in-house training programs as an enrichment exercise. Classroom tests of early drafts of this third edition and the previous two published editions have demonstrated repeatedly that students enjoy reading the instructional thriller and learn the accounting concepts more readily than through traditional texts.

About this title

About the Author:

D. Larry Crumbley is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Accounting at Louisiana State University. Christine Betts is an Assistant Professor of Accounting/Finance in the College of Business at Franklin Pierce University. Stacy Mastrolia is an Associate Professor of Accounting in the Freeman College of Management at Bucknell University. Robert Sarikas is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Eastern Washington University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1531012647
• ISBN 13: 9781531012649
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 272