品牌：Cynthia Cooper
基本信息
·出版社：John Wiley & Sons
·页码：416 页码
·出版日：2008年
·ISBN：0470124296
·条码：9780470124291
·装帧：精装
内容简介
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A courageous narrative of one woman's victory over corporate wrongdoing
Written in an autobiographic style, Extraordinary Circumstances takes the reader through the journey of Cynthia Cooper-former WorldCom employee and Time magazine's 2002 Person of the Year-and her compelling story in exposing the largest corporate fraud in history.Following Cooper from her early upbringing in Mississippi, to her high-level position in WorldCom, to the issues of fraud that she confronted, to the fall of WorldCom, Extraordinary Circumstances is an insider's guide to the decision-making process that led her to "blow the whistle" and the role her personal faith and ethics played during this challenging time.Cynthia Cooper (Brandon, MS) was named one of Time magazine's 2002 Persons of the Year, along with fellow whistleblowers Coleen Rowley and Sherron Watkins. Ms. Cooper was inducted to the 2004 AICPA Hall of Fame, and is the first woman to receive this distinction. Ms. Cooper is also the 2003 recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award, which is awarded annually to an individual who has made notable contributions to professionalism and ethics in accounting practice or education. Ms. Cooper is the tenth recipient of the Accounting Exemplar Award and the first woman to receive the award. As the former vice president of the internal audit department at WorldCom, she is best known for her detection and reporting of the massive corporate fraud that was taking place at some of the highest levels of the company. After the collapse of WorldCom, Cooper continued to work at WorldCom (now MCI) but in 2004 she resigned her position as the Chief Audit Executive for MCI to form her own company, through which she speaks to both professionals and students across the country to share some of the lessons she has learned and to emphasize the importance of strong ethical leadership.
作者简介
Cynthia Cooperwas 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.
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From Publishers Weekly
In Cooper's thorough and efficient narrative about the fantastic collapse of telecommunications giant WorldCom there are two distinct themes: her insider's view of the corporation's widespread wrongdoing and the life experiences that led Cooper to becoming a courageous whistleblower. Cooper, former vice president of WorldCom's internal audit department, is most successful with the former. She brings us into the boardrooms, the backrooms and, somehow, into the heads of key players as some struggled with and others embraced the deceptions that would bring WorldCom down. Less engaging are Cooper's autobiographical anecdotes, which offer everything from her high school math scores to clichéd advice from Mom and Dad ("when you are unkind, you can't go back and change the hurt"). Other unnecessary personal details-like the fact that 12-year-old Cooper called her violin teachers first when she was moving away-and mundane meanderings about haircuts and gender differences take the reader off course. Too, many of these folksy anecdotes paint the author as a goody two-shoes. Cooper is better and trumps other WorldCom accounts with a perspective available only from a business-smart insider with a conscience.
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Review
"...with the publication of her new book,Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of A Corporate Whistleblower, we finally get an inside account of what really happened at WorldCom. It's a powerful tale. Cooper's story has been partially told before, most notably in theWall Street Journaland in a report prepared for WorldCom's board of directors. But her adventures at WorldCom come to life in this first-person account." (USA Today, February 15, 2008)"Readers of Cooper's book,Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower, 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, February 7, 2008)"...it's a fascinating study of the quantum changes in character that accompany the accumulation of unimaginable wealth as well as an uncomfortable reminder of how, faced with an ethical fork in the road, just how easy it is for some to take a wrong turn." (WebCPA.com, February 2008)"This is a heroic, often exciting tale of a person who, in the course of doing her job, stumbles on a big lie and pushes on to get to the bottom of it." (CFO.com; 1/25/08)
Review
"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. When pressure to meet market expectations collided with Cynthia Cooper’s ethical values, she made the brave decision to do the job she’d been entrusted to do as an auditor. We need more leaders like Cynthia. If the free enterprise system is to survive, companies need to take corporate values and ethics checks seriously. This book should be required reading for leaders everywhere."
―Ken Blanchard,co-author ofThe One Minute ManagerandSelf Leadership and Leading at a Higher Level"Reading this book will help all business people prepare for their own Extraordinary Circumstances and give them the courage to act as Cynthia did."
―Dennis R. Beresford;Former Chair of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, Former MCI Audit Committee Chair, Professor of Accounting at the University of GA"An excellent read! In "Extraordinary Circumstances," Cynthia Cooper paints a picture of WorldCom’s journey down the slippery slope of corporate ethics. The message is uplifting and inspiring. This is a "must read" for those interested in establishing good governance and ethical values in their organization. This book will be required reading for our students."
―Glenn E. Sumners,Director LSU Center for Internal Auditing"Extraordinary Circumstances is a terrific read."
―Joseph T. Wells,CFE, CPA, Founder and chairman Association of Certified Fraud Examiners"Riveting!! What a story of courage and conviction . An absolute must read for anyone who believes in governance and a robust system of internal controls. A classic example of how , without controls, an organization will not survive. Cynthia is such a wonderful role model for those who are not afraid to go against the grain to do what is right."
—Joel Kramer CPA,Managing Director, Internal Audit Division, MIS Training Institute
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