The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting Creative Accounting Practices

Praise for The Financial Numbers GameSo much for the notion those who can, dothose who cant, teach. Mulford and Comiskey function successfully both as college professors and realworld financial mercenaries. These guys know their balance sheets. The Financial Numbers Game should serve as a survival manual for both serious individual investors and industry pros who study and act upon the interpretation of financial statements. This unique blend of battleearned scholarship and quality writing is a mustread/musthave reference for serious financial statement analysis. Bob Acker, Editor/Publisher, The Acker LetterWall Streets unforgiving attention to quarterly earnings presents ever increasing pressure on CFOs to manage earnings and expectations. The Financial Numbers Game provides a clear explanation of the ways in which management can stretch, bend, and break accounting rules to reach the desired bottom line. This arms the serious investor or financial analyst with the healthy skepticism required to drive beyond reported results to a clear understanding of a firms true performance. Mark Hurley, Managing Director, Training and Development, Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Bank of AmericaAfter reading The Financial Numbers Game, I feel as though Ive taken a masters level course in financial statement analysis. Mulford and Comiskeys latest book should be required reading for anyone who is serious about fundamentally analyzing stocks. Harry Domash, San Francisco Chronicle investing columnist and investment newsletter publisher