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...Davison is gone, but Music 1 will always be a horizon-opener. Even if you don't appreciate anything past the juke box, investigate this one, at least as an auditor. While the course is designed for the uninitiated, the self-confessed music connoisseur will learn much, too. With Professor Woodworth, piano, and recorded examples, in Paine Hall...
...Books. In Chicago, Auditor Chester Calvert quietly left the Sherry Hotel, where he worked, when the C.P.A.s arrived, later accommodatingly mailed an itemized list of its cash shortages...
Pound Foolish. In London, arrested for counterfeiting, Auditor Phillip J. Pratt refused to plead guilty, snorted: "Ridiculous! I look on it as an amusing hobby...
...pondered enforcement methods, old Auditor Andrews had an auditor-like thought: always seek an independent source to check a man's figures. When he applied this principle to undertakers, he suggested that his men in one district try checking morticians' returns against burial reports at the local bureau of vital statistics. The first mortician investigated had failed to report $140,000 of income over several years...
Andrews stands out from his predecessors in the BIR most notably because he is the first collector in history who is an experienced auditor and accountant. After high school in Richmond, he went to work as an office boy with Armour & Co., soon took up bookkeeping as an after-hours sideline. He passed the CPA examinations at 21, became the nation's youngest accredited accountant. After founding his own auditing firm, he later took on the additional job of Virginia State auditor. Virginia remembers him for uncovering 100 cases of corruption and fraud, sending a county clerk and five...