Brendon Burchard’s New (FREE) Book: The Millionaire Messenger
Brendon Burchard is releasing his new book “The Millionaire Messenger“.
It’s free – all you pay is $6.95 for shipping and handling.
Why should you take the time to order it and read it? Brendon is legit – I’ve been to two of his seminars on starting and growing a business and will be reading it myself.
Why would Brendon give this away? It’s a genius move. He wants people to read it and then review it on Amazon.com.
I’m not receiving any compensation for promoting this book. I just think you should go order it and read it. 
Click Here for the Millionaire Messenger.
Jeff
The Traveler’s Gift: an antidote after failing the CPA Exam
Given the fact that most of the scores from the recent testing window are out, I think that this post is timely. “The Traveler’s Gift” by Andy Andrews follows a man named David Ponder who finds himself downsized from a takeover after giving his heart and sole to a large corporation as an executive. He returns home after work via taxi (they made him turn in his company car) to ponder what to do next.
The book is about failure and keeping your perspective amidst the storms we find ourselves in.
Through several visits with key historical figures (Lincoln, Truman, King Solomon, Anne Frank, Christopher Columbus), the main character gets an education on enduring through struggles and overcoming the fires of life. If you found yourself frustrated after being on the wrong end of a 75 during this testing period, pick this book up.
It’s a quick read and it will you will gain a new perspective and move on after this temporary setback with the Exam.
The first six pages are available for free on amazon’s website and if you’re like me, you’ll be sucked in. I ordered the book this past summer and couldn’t put it down.
Click the book and when it takes you to the amazon site, click the “Look Inside” icon above the book’s picture for a preview.
Conspiracy of Fools
This is off-topic somewhat, but still highly relevant to the CPA exam. I have been reading (actually an audio book) “Conspiracy of Fools” by Kurt Eichenwald, which gives readers an inside view of what exactly happened at Enron.
I’m halfway through the book (I listen to it at work when I have some spreadsheet maintenance or other brainless tasks to do) and even though I already know what happens and I’ve already seen the movie “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room“, I’m still shocked that Arthur Andersen and the Board of Directors didn’t stop Jeff Skilling or Andy Fastow from doing what they did.
For the uninitiated into Enron, the things that Enron CFO Andy Fastow did will blow your mind. In the era of Sarbanes-Oxley, it seems like fantasy to think that such a thing could happen, but the book takes you back to pre-Sarbanes where the term “post-Enron” doesn’t yet exist.
In short, Enron used mark-to-market accounting in their dealings which should have been a HUGE no-no. They also formed all sorts of limited partnerships and dumped debt out of Enron’s books in a string of countless transactions that weren’t at arm’s-length.
If you have a chance to pick up the book – it’s great. If you have never seen “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room”, you HAVE to watch it as a CPA candidate. It’s very interesting – and very sad (think of the tens of thousands of people who lost their 401(k) and their retirements at Enron).
If you are a Netflix subscriber, you can go online and watch the movie for free. Your local video store should have it too. I’ve seen it three times now and I still find myself baffled that such a thing was allowed to happen each time I watch it.
