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Dr. Howard Schilit: The Forensic Mindset

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Jacob Wolinsky
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ValueWalk's Raul Panganiban interviews Dr. Howard Schilit, the Sherlock Holmes of Accounting and the author of Financial Shenanigans. In this part, Dr. Schilit discusses the forensic mindset, and Enron's CFO Andy Fastow.

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I guess like to add on to the forensic accounting mindset. The sources, such as two questions, why and why now?

Yeah.

I really like that.

Yeah. Okay. So So, you refer to the last chapter of the book, which I called the forensic mindset, sort of...

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Jacob Wolinsky is the ex-Founder of Valuewalk.com (founded 2011, sold 2023). He is founder of HedgeFundAlpha (formerly ValueWalk Premium), a hedge fund focused intelligence service for institutional investors. Prior to founding Valuewalk, Jacob worked as an equity analyst covering small caps, a micro-cap analyst, doing member development a large hedge fund community and freelance financial writing. Jacob lives with his wife and five kids in Passaic NJ. - Email: jacob(at)hedgefundalpha.com. For confidential inquires email me for my Signal id. Other methods of secure communication are also available. FD: I almost exclusively avoid the purchase of equities to avoid conflict of interest and any insider information. I only purchase broad-based ETFs and mutual funds. I will disclsoe if I have a stake in any company, but in general avoid