Extraordinary Circumstances, Custom Edition

Praise for Extraordinary Circumstances

"Outstanding! This page-turning account of the WorldCom fiasco reads like a suspense novel. I was on the edge of my seat to the last page.... This book should be required reading for leaders everywhere."
—Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager

"Cooper's willingness to reveal her innermost thoughts as she dug makes for gripping reading."
—BusinessWeek

"Extraordinary Circumstances is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the dynamics of an accounting fraud."
—Bloomberg.com

"Readers...will find it easy to identify with both the employees who manipulated the telecommunications giant's financial statements and those who caught them."
—Reuters.com

"After reading the first few paragraphs of this compelling book, readers are motivated to set aside other tasks and continue to read the entire book....a compelling present-tense narrative that would actually make a good work of fiction...One of the biggest advantages of this storytelling style is that the action keeps moving ...."
—ScienceDirect, The International Journal of Accounting

"Extraordinary Circumstances is a terrific read....I highly recommend it."
—Joseph T. Wells, CFE, CPA, founder and Chairman, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

"For executives, Cooper's experiences...offer lessons that are as fresh today as when the scandal first broke."
—CFO magazine

"...trumps other WorldCom accounts with a perspective available only from a business-smart insider."
—Publishers Weekly 

Cynthia Cooper was one of Time's 2002 Persons of the Year. She was the vice president of internal audit for WorldCom and subsequently MCI. Cynthia was featured as one of twenty-five influential working mothers in Working Mother, and earned the distinction of being the first woman to receive the AAA Accounting Exemplar Award and to be inducted into the AICPA Business & Industry Hall of Fame. Cooper resigned from MCI in 2004, following the company's successful emergence from bankruptcy, and now shares the lessons she has learned through her experiences with professionals and students. She and her husband Lance reside in Mississippi with their two daughters.