He applies his accounting background to company financials to root out cash flow.
"Having a financial and accounting background, I know how to look for waste, inefficiencies and fraud".
When Douglas Wilson took over as the division's inspector general last year, he approached the job from an accounting background.
In 1946, at the age of 40, his diligent work and accounting background led to his appointment as the city's $9,500-a-year 9,500-a-year 9,500-a-year.
Many universities now offer summer schools and courses to try to increase the number of students who come from underprivileged homes, and take into account background when making offers.
Shane's mother has an accounting background, so she helps keep an eye on the growing number of lawyers, investors and accountants who take care of Shane's business matters.
Mr. Edwards's defense team hired James Walsh, a former F.B.I. agent with an accounting background, to analyze money that flowed into the Youngs' account from Ms. Mellon and a wealthy Texas lawyer, Fred Baron.
So I had an Ivy League-educated father with an accounting background who is very detail-oriented, and I had a stepfather who barely finished high school who built this massive direct-marketing company.
To separate the two, Piotroski used his accounting background.
What, then, can the ordinary investor, who lacks the accounting background to see through distorted earnings reports, do?
The person who has made that happen is Kirsty Nathoo, a UK transplant with an accounting background.
