Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust Hardback - 2003
by Brewster, Mike
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
Brewster draws on his experience as communications director for KPMG to track the fascinating transformation of the auditor from an independent voice on behalf of the shareholder into Corporate America's "consigliere."
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- Title Unaccountable: How the Accounting Profession Forfeited a Public Trust
- Author Brewster, Mike
- Binding Hardback
- Edition Edition Unstated
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 328
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-04-21
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR012444624
- ISBN 9780471423621 / 0471423629
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.32 x 1.14 in (23.06 x 16.05 x 2.90 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Responsibility, Public interest
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002156440
- Dewey Decimal Code 657.09
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From the publisher
From the rear cover
In the United States, twentieth-century accountants played a vital role in shaping the transparency of U.S. capital markets, counseling the Allies on financial matters in both world wars, advising Congress on the creation of the federal income tax, and inventing the concept of the gross national product.
Yet by 2003, the reputation of the public accountant was in tatters. How did the accounting profession in America squander its legacy of public service? What happened to the accountants that presidents, senators, and captains of industry turned to for advice? Why did auditors stop looking for fraud? How did this once revered profession find itself in this unlikely and humiliating state?
