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The Forensic Certified Public Accountant #8
The Forensic Certified Public Accountant and the Intangible Virtual Reality Paperless Company
The magical world of Forensic Accounting comes to life as Titus Uno, Certified Public Accountant, Forensic Certified Public Accountant, and Chartered Global Management Accountant along with the other 4 members of his Forensic Certified Public Accountant Team: Drew Samson, Dena Hope, Jack “Sheriff” Starr, and Veronica Jackson audit the financial statements of the Intangible Virtual Reality Paperless Company in the virtual reality world.
90 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2018
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January 31, 2019
I read this book via an Amazon KINDLE Unlimited download.
The moment readers begin reading this the 8th endeavor by this author they’re greeted in the first paragraph with a SINGLE SENTENCE that contains the word VIRTUAL used 19 times as an adjective in succession, and the sentence ends with his all too familiar protagonist stating who he is: I, Titus Uno, Certified Public Accountant, Forensic Certified Public Accountant, and Chartered Global Management Accountant.
In the second paragraph which contains 3 sentences, readers will the phrase ‘virtual reality intangible paperless’ appearing 4 times, 3 of which are in 1 sentence. In the seventh paragraph, I, Titus Uno…., can be found written twice in succession. Also, in this chapter, readers are introduced twice to his team, and each time they’re given their names and what they’ll be doing in the investigation that will be going on.
Consistency of the author’s AD NAUSEUM REPETITION in style of writing continues throughout the entire book. If an editor would this book into their hands a vast portion of the book’s pages would be deleted. To see what this reviewer is talking about, all one has to do is to check out the book’s preview pages.
Considering all of this, I can only give this 8th endeavor by this author 1 STAR.
The moment readers begin reading this the 8th endeavor by this author they’re greeted in the first paragraph with a SINGLE SENTENCE that contains the word VIRTUAL used 19 times as an adjective in succession, and the sentence ends with his all too familiar protagonist stating who he is: I, Titus Uno, Certified Public Accountant, Forensic Certified Public Accountant, and Chartered Global Management Accountant.
In the second paragraph which contains 3 sentences, readers will the phrase ‘virtual reality intangible paperless’ appearing 4 times, 3 of which are in 1 sentence. In the seventh paragraph, I, Titus Uno…., can be found written twice in succession. Also, in this chapter, readers are introduced twice to his team, and each time they’re given their names and what they’ll be doing in the investigation that will be going on.
Consistency of the author’s AD NAUSEUM REPETITION in style of writing continues throughout the entire book. If an editor would this book into their hands a vast portion of the book’s pages would be deleted. To see what this reviewer is talking about, all one has to do is to check out the book’s preview pages.
Considering all of this, I can only give this 8th endeavor by this author 1 STAR.
September 2, 2023
All good things must come to an end. On an unrelated note, I’m done with the Forensic Accountant series.
I wish I could say that Thrash stuck the landing at the end of the Forensic Accountant series, but he did not. Maybe I’m just tired of reading this madness, especially after the last book. However, unlike the last book (I’m not going to list it because fuck that book), this one at least has some of that Forensic Accountant fun in the description and series of events that happen.
You can tell there is at least some fun to be had from the first line:
“Virtual games, virtual videos, virtual phones and computers, virtual glasses, intangible virtual businesses, intangible balance sheets, virtual assets, virtual liabilities, virtual owner’s equity, virtual income statements, virtual revenue, virtual expenses, virtual money, virtual accounting, virtual audits, virtual taxes, virtual crime, virtual investigation, virtual interrogation, and virtual court cases…”
I’m not going to list the rest, but that’s the kind of sentences you will have to navigate in this book.
In this book, Titus Uno CPA FCPA CGMA, has to audit the Virtual Reality Intangible Paperless Company. I will say it was pleasant seeing glimpses of Titus’s old optimism:
“This is an exciting audit that brings the exciting world of virtual forensic accounting into the real world of the court system.”
As far as I can tell this paperless company has a virtual city called Sheath. To enter this virtual world, Titus and his team will wear virtual reality glasses while conducting the audit. While in this world, each team member will need an avatar.
Drew Samson, the private investigator, will have a detective avatar. Dena Hope, the computer hacker, will have the geek avatar. Veronica Jackson, the scheduler, will use the nurse avatar. Makes sense. Jack “Sheriff” Starr, CEO, will have the sheriff avatar. Obviously. And Titus Uno himself, the Certified Public Accountant, Forensic Certified Public Accountant, and Chartered Global Management Accountant, will have the policeman avatar, OF COURSE!
We also get this great insight into what danger awaits our team:
“It is like towns that did not have sheriffs in the West. Outlaws had the ability to not be nice or kind.”
When we start the audit, we get another surprise, more characters from Titus’s past show up and aid in the investigation. Quick Swift and Sue Swift, insurance appraisers, will have salespeople avatars. Officer Chuck Mac from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (I guess this story takes place in Canada), will use the Royal Canadian Mounted Police avatar. Agent “Davy” Bond of the FBI will have a Game Warden avatar. Agent “Super” Vision from the CIA will have the state trooper avatar. Agent “Spider” Webb from homeland security will have a military general avatar to question people about their use of cellphones and tablets.
Unfortunately, the majority of the book is the typical copy paste madness that just fills in pages, I’m sure this astonishes you. It’s not until the end that we get anything resembling an original sentence.
Fortunately, the ending has some good stuff. Such as details regarding the procedure of the court case. During this court case: “The judge, jury, attorneys, and people watching the court case will all wear virtual reality glasses.” Just let that sink in for a second.
But why was there a need for a court case? What crime was committed? Well, I’ll tell you. Hackers entered the Virtual Reality Intangible Paperless Company’s computers and inserted a virus that allowed them to move the virtual reality Fort Knox gold from Sheath by removing all the gold bars and replacing the stolen gold bars with… hologram gold bars. What in God’s name in going on? I guess the gold bars in this virtual reality city weren’t holograms to begin with but were real. Why am I even trying to make sense of this?
“These virtual reality stolen gold bars are worth billions of dollars since there is no real-world limit on the number of gold bars that were stored in the Virtual Reality Fort Knox vault.”
That’s not how money works.
Finally, in the final chapter of this story, we are told Titus Uno and his wife, Leah, has a baby girl, Sarah Ann Uno. “Sarah Anna Uno is so cute. It is so exciting to be enjoying my work and to be happily married and to be a father.”
The scant riches of this book might make it seem like a worthwhile experience, but other than what’s listed above there is nothing else to offer. If you want to say you finished the Forensic Accountant series, for whatever unholy reason, then give this book a shot. To anyone else, I can’t say this is for you. 2 stars, not good but by the standards of this series not the worst.
Having read this series, I was hoping to give some great insight into this madness. A goal I was destined to fail at from the beginning. The madness of this series was too great to understand and may never be understood. Perhaps this was all just an attempt at making a few bucks, some donations to charity, a spark of creativity that the author decided to just run with, a means of impressing people, or just a joke. This series has been full of plenty of jokes, but the funniest of all, I spent money on this series.
I wish I could say that Thrash stuck the landing at the end of the Forensic Accountant series, but he did not. Maybe I’m just tired of reading this madness, especially after the last book. However, unlike the last book (I’m not going to list it because fuck that book), this one at least has some of that Forensic Accountant fun in the description and series of events that happen.
You can tell there is at least some fun to be had from the first line:
“Virtual games, virtual videos, virtual phones and computers, virtual glasses, intangible virtual businesses, intangible balance sheets, virtual assets, virtual liabilities, virtual owner’s equity, virtual income statements, virtual revenue, virtual expenses, virtual money, virtual accounting, virtual audits, virtual taxes, virtual crime, virtual investigation, virtual interrogation, and virtual court cases…”
I’m not going to list the rest, but that’s the kind of sentences you will have to navigate in this book.
In this book, Titus Uno CPA FCPA CGMA, has to audit the Virtual Reality Intangible Paperless Company. I will say it was pleasant seeing glimpses of Titus’s old optimism:
“This is an exciting audit that brings the exciting world of virtual forensic accounting into the real world of the court system.”
As far as I can tell this paperless company has a virtual city called Sheath. To enter this virtual world, Titus and his team will wear virtual reality glasses while conducting the audit. While in this world, each team member will need an avatar.
Drew Samson, the private investigator, will have a detective avatar. Dena Hope, the computer hacker, will have the geek avatar. Veronica Jackson, the scheduler, will use the nurse avatar. Makes sense. Jack “Sheriff” Starr, CEO, will have the sheriff avatar. Obviously. And Titus Uno himself, the Certified Public Accountant, Forensic Certified Public Accountant, and Chartered Global Management Accountant, will have the policeman avatar, OF COURSE!
We also get this great insight into what danger awaits our team:
“It is like towns that did not have sheriffs in the West. Outlaws had the ability to not be nice or kind.”
When we start the audit, we get another surprise, more characters from Titus’s past show up and aid in the investigation. Quick Swift and Sue Swift, insurance appraisers, will have salespeople avatars. Officer Chuck Mac from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (I guess this story takes place in Canada), will use the Royal Canadian Mounted Police avatar. Agent “Davy” Bond of the FBI will have a Game Warden avatar. Agent “Super” Vision from the CIA will have the state trooper avatar. Agent “Spider” Webb from homeland security will have a military general avatar to question people about their use of cellphones and tablets.
Unfortunately, the majority of the book is the typical copy paste madness that just fills in pages, I’m sure this astonishes you. It’s not until the end that we get anything resembling an original sentence.
Fortunately, the ending has some good stuff. Such as details regarding the procedure of the court case. During this court case: “The judge, jury, attorneys, and people watching the court case will all wear virtual reality glasses.” Just let that sink in for a second.
But why was there a need for a court case? What crime was committed? Well, I’ll tell you. Hackers entered the Virtual Reality Intangible Paperless Company’s computers and inserted a virus that allowed them to move the virtual reality Fort Knox gold from Sheath by removing all the gold bars and replacing the stolen gold bars with… hologram gold bars. What in God’s name in going on? I guess the gold bars in this virtual reality city weren’t holograms to begin with but were real. Why am I even trying to make sense of this?
“These virtual reality stolen gold bars are worth billions of dollars since there is no real-world limit on the number of gold bars that were stored in the Virtual Reality Fort Knox vault.”
That’s not how money works.
Finally, in the final chapter of this story, we are told Titus Uno and his wife, Leah, has a baby girl, Sarah Ann Uno. “Sarah Anna Uno is so cute. It is so exciting to be enjoying my work and to be happily married and to be a father.”
The scant riches of this book might make it seem like a worthwhile experience, but other than what’s listed above there is nothing else to offer. If you want to say you finished the Forensic Accountant series, for whatever unholy reason, then give this book a shot. To anyone else, I can’t say this is for you. 2 stars, not good but by the standards of this series not the worst.
Having read this series, I was hoping to give some great insight into this madness. A goal I was destined to fail at from the beginning. The madness of this series was too great to understand and may never be understood. Perhaps this was all just an attempt at making a few bucks, some donations to charity, a spark of creativity that the author decided to just run with, a means of impressing people, or just a joke. This series has been full of plenty of jokes, but the funniest of all, I spent money on this series.
February 18, 2019
Ok so I accidentally bought this & the first book was terrible but fun to read & I thought I'd give this a go. It's shockingly bad & just plain lazy. Virtually the whole book is one chapter copied & pasted with a few very minor alterations. I would give 0 stars if I could. Must try harder next time.
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