Your typical accounting text is designed to instruct accountants and investors how to prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. King offers engaging discussions on divisive accounting issues such as taxes, debt, options and earnings volatility. He addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt's landmark 1998 speech delivered at New York University. . . .