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| TOPIC: "Business Fairy Tales: The Top Twenty Fictitious Financial Reporting Frauds and the Signals they leave in the Financial Statements" SPEAKER: Dr. Cecil W. Jackson, CPA, is a Professor of Clinical Accounting in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and author of 'Business Fairy Tales: Grim Realities of Fictitious Financial Reporting'. DESCRIPTION OF SPEECH: * Methods of Overstating Revenue * Methods of Understating Expenses * Frauds involving Business Acquisitions * Misuse of Off-balance-sheet entities * Miscellaneous financial reporting frauds SPEAKER BIO: Dr. Cecil W. Jackson, a CPA and Chartered Accountant, is Professor of Clinical Accounting at the Leventhal School of Accounting in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He teaches courses on fraudulent financial reporting, forensic accounting and managerial accounting in the MBA program as well as the graduate and undergraduate accounting programs. Dr. Jackson designed and developed the first courses on fraudulent financial accounting at USC. He has won several awards for his teaching and is a respected speaker and consultant on aggressive financial reporting issues. He is also the Director of the USC Center of the California Council on Economic Education, and has worked for two major public accounting firms. Jackson has appeared on Bloomberg Television, The Street.Com, and several television news shows. He has been interviewed by a number of radio shows including “On the Money” “Your Financial Editor,” and “Marketplace.” He holds a Master's degree in Accounting from Rhodes University and a Doctorate in Accounting from the University of South Africa In his book, Business Fairy Tales: Grim Realities of Fictitious Financial Reporting, Jackson uses real-world scandals to illustrate the top-twenty methods used by companies to falsely overstate earnings and hide debt. |
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