Social Media Ideas for Cooking The Books

Cooking the Books: Murder At The Campfire Cookout by Darci Hannah

Former banker Lindsey Bakewell has happily established herself in the small Michigan town of Beacon Harbor. Her impulsive decision to buy the local non-working lighthouse and conve...

Cooking the Books: Murder In A Lavender Daze by Daryl Wood Gerber

Wellness center owner Emma Brennan is relieved that being accused of murder hasn’t ruined her livelihood. It helps that she was a key component in solving the mystery of her frenem...

Cooking the Books: Death By Chocolate Ladyfingers by Sarah Graves

Jake Tiptree has her Maine home to herself for several days, an unusual occurrence given how packed it usually is with three generations of her family. While the silence is gloriou...

Cooking the Books: The Diva Hosts A Murderer by Krista Davis

Domestic diva Sophie Winston has a full house in her Old Town Alexandria townhome as the 4th of July approaches. In addition to her sister Hannah and her parents, Paul and Inga, he...

The Big 4 Model Might Be Cooked

For nearly 17 years now, this website you’re reading has been meticulously documenting the accounting […] The post The Big 4 Model Might Be Cooked appeared first on Going Concern.

The Back Hallway

A 23-year-old accountant uncovered $1.4M in vendor fraud at a midsize hotel, exposing how weak purchasing and receiving controls enabled a 12-year scheme by a trusted chief enginee...

Brent Swadley is cooked!

Pull that pork butt out of the smoker, wrap it in foil, and let it rest! The BBQ Trial of the Century is officially underway at the Oklahoma County Courthouse, and things are alrea...

How much? The hidden costs of restaurant dishes

Two chefs lift the lid on the expensive business of creating menus they loveYou pay: £21 Restaurant profit: £1.65 Continue reading...

Creative accounting: How officials kept a failed tech upgrade under the radar

Do You Have Cooks or Crooks Out There?  

When those who’re supposed to be cooks are in fact avid crooks, awful are the looks! The state doesn’t augur well for the famished because crooks are in the habit and business of n...

James Heathers will fix Wiley’s problems for less than 3.7 million dollars (that is, 2,553,739 Jamaican beef patties, 47...

The data thug quotes from: an April 2023 post from the EVP of Research at Wiley: In September 2022, Wiley identified and immediately alerted the industry to paper mill activity we...

Cook Your Story

by James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell There’s a legendary diner near my house called Bobby’s Coffee Shop. It’s been here since 1949, when Robert “Bobby” Perkins, a U.S. Navy veteran...

(Un)Cooking for a Heatwave

How to avoid turning on your oven or hob ...

Fire District Sues Longtime Bookkeeper Over Access to Financial Records

A New York fire district has filed suit against the bookkeeping company that handled its accounting services for nearly two decades, alleging the company refused to turn over elect...

Tax Fraud Blotter: Drinking and draining

Flat-out invented; 500 months; diverted income; and other highlights of recent tax cases.

The carousel trade (arbitrage)

Imagine two companies which are secretly controlled by the same people. If company A imported some phones, then sold them to company B, it charged VAT on the deal. If company B the...

The Money Drawer

A narrative case study of an $87,000 employee theft at an independent hotel, showing how absent internal controls and misplaced trust enabled an 18-month fraud scheme.

Revolver bookkeeper accused of siphoning $8.5 million as other clubs flagged

Former bookkeeper Sutasinee McGuigan is accused of misappropriating more than $8.5 million from Prahran nightclub Revolver, as auditors investigate donations she made to Buddhist t...

Feeding the Fraudsters

Vance's task force can find the fraud. The question is whether it can make the state see what it was designed not to.

Their Own Cooking

“But in the society we actually have, in this chaotic place where the Gramscians have brought us, our arbiters of approved speech insist that they be the only ones allowed to shock...

Doing the decent thing…

Many, possibly all, were sold under market value prompting rapid resale for a quick buck.

China Rejects Accusations of Cooking the Books on Carbon Emissions

Apparently disappearing half of China's emissions has a perfectly reasonable explanation. The post China Rejects Accusations of Cooking the Books on Carbon Emissions appeared firs...

Cooking up financial stability – at home

Across the U.S., states are recognizing that home-based food businesses provide vital economic and community services. New regulations, such as in Colorado, are helping families us...

Cooked: Apple CEO leaves customers with the bill for price increases

Apple customers, brace for price hikes as outgoing CEO Tim Cook passes chip cost increases your way.