Financial Shenanigans, Fourth Edition: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, 4th Edition

Preface

Reflections on My Last 25 Years

Howard Schilit

Fall 2017

Dear Friends,

Having recently reached my sixty-fifth birthday, I began reflecting on my life and the many changes over the last quarter century since writing the first edition of Financial Shenanigans. In short, I feel very blessed. On a personal level, my wife Diane and I love spending time with our three young grandchildren, and are eagerly awaiting our fourth. Professionally, I am enjoying building my second business, a forensic accounting consultancy called Schilit Forensics, with my fantastic partners and coauthors, Jeremy Perler and Yoni Engelhart.

In addition to the research engagements we work on for our clients, we spend a fair amount of time teaching the trade of forensic ...