Heskett Column - Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal? - Additional Resources

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"Over the brink." Andrew M. Ross, The Daily Deal, February 7, 2003.

"Audit Firms Battle Curbs On Services." David S. Hilzenrath, Washington Post, January 16, 2003.

"The Rules Explosion: Is It Time to Move Toward Principles?" Lawrence Richter Quinn, Strategic Finance, January 2003.

"Time for CFOs to Step Up." Tim Koller, The McKinsey Quarterly, 2002.

"Accounting in Crisis." Nanette Byrnes, BusinessWeek, January 28, 2002.

Books and Online Resources

Final Accounting: Ambition, Greed and the Fall of Arthur Andersen, by Barbara Ley Toffler, with Jennifer Reingold, Broadway Books, March 2003.

Accounting Irregularities and Financial Fraud: A Corporate Governance Guide, by Michael R. Young and Jack H. Nusbaum, Aspen Publishers, Inc. March 2003.

The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings Corrupted Wall Street and Corporate America, by Alex Berenson, Random House, March 2003.

Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Wiley Investment Classics), by Charles Kindleberger, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., November 2000.

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