Charles W. Mulford

Professor of accounting at Georgia Tech and director of its Financial Analysis Lab.

The Financial Numbers Game catalogues the specific devices companies use to flatter reported results - revenue recognition timing, capitalised costs, reserve releases, one-off classification - and shows how to find each one in the filings. Creative Cash Flow Reporting does the same for the cash flow statement, where operating cash flow can be raised by classification choices that leave the cash unchanged.

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