$windler$: Cons & Cheats and How to Protect Your Investments from Them

Rosen, Al; Rosen, Mark

ISBN 10: 1897330766 / ISBN 13: 9781897330760

Published by Madison Commerce, 2014

About this Item

$windler$: Cons & Cheats and How to Protect Your Investments From Them. Madison Commerce, 2010. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dustjacket: Fine. First edition. Inscribed by both authors. ?As an investor in today?s market, you are on your own: you need to arm yourself with the right information, learn to read between the lines of financial reports and statements, and follow the money when you suspect that accounting tricks are in play to produce misleading results or offer false prospects. Swindlers challenge the idea that the average Canadian can expect fair treatment and a fair return when investing their money; clearly there is one set of rules for the wealthy and another for the rest of us. Is the system broken? Or is it working exactly the way it should for those it is designed to benefit? Is Canada really better at financial regulation than the United States or is it 80 years behind?? Very slight rubbing. Clean, tight, square in an unclipped jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: $windler$: Cons & Cheats and How to Protect Your Investments from Them
• Publisher: Madison Commerce
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897330766
• ISBN 13: 9781897330760
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

As an investor in today’s market, you are on your own: you need to arm yourself with the right information, learn to read between the lines of financial reports and statements, and follow the money when you suspect that accounting tricks are in play to produce misleading results or offer false prospects. Swindlers challenge the idea that the average Canadian can expect fair treatment and a fair return when investing their money; clearly there is one set of rules for the wealthy and another for the rest of us. Is the system broken? Or is it working exactly the way it should for those it is designed to benefit? Is Canada really better at financial regulation than the United States or is it 80 years behind?

About the Author

Al Rosen is professor emeritus of accounting at the Schulich School of Business at York University, where he taught for more than 30 years. He has been a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants since 1960, is chairman of the Canadian Justice Review Board, and is considered one of North America’s top forensic accountants. Mark Rosen is a partner in Accountability Research Corporation, which has for many years specialized in providing independent equity research and forensic accounting analysis to institutional investors across North America, offering clients unbiased, in-depth, accounting-focused investment analysis. He is the author or coauthor of several financial reporting and accounting articles that have appeared in the national media. They both live in Toronto.