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Publisher:
Page Free Publishing |
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ISBN:
1930252854 |
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Format
Reviewed: Paperback |
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Genre:
Nonfiction / Business |
Reviewed:
2003 |
Reviewer:
Carolyn Howard-Johnson |
Reviewer
Notes: Reviewer is the author This is the Place and
Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered |
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Never
Underestimate Who Can Cheat You!
Straight Talk about Crooked Business:
The Survival Guide for Anyone Who Has to Work for a Living
By Alex
Kwechansky
What
do you do when you find a college course you are teaching is so
popular it can't accommodate all the students interested in the
subject? You write a book, of course.
UCLA
recently instituted a class that addresses small-business fraud.
The instructor, Alex Kwechansky, wrote Never Underestimate Who
Can Cheat You in order to reach those who couldn't take the
class.
Although
inspired by academic issues, this is a book written with a great
deal of humor from the introduction (the author urges the reader
not to skip over it) to the last page. It is full of secret dangers
that everyone, not just business people, need to protect themselves
from. If ya' don't understand the crooks, how you gonna protect
yourself against them, right?
I've
read way too much recently about shady bookkeeping practices in
the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere. The big guys aren't the only
ones who are happy to take advantage of the unsuspecting. This book
tells a reader what to watch for in the marketplace, about the hazards
and deceptions in investing, and other frauds and scams you didn't
even know existed. Feeling paranoid? Perhaps we all should.
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