BOOK REVIEW DEPARTMENT

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1714.1977.tb01441.x
• Published date: 01 September 1978
• Date: 01 September 1978

BOOK

REVIEW

DEPARTMENT

C.P.A. LAW REVIEW, FIFTH EDITION

Joseph L. Frascona. Homewood, Illinois: Richard D. Irwin, Inc.,

1977. Pp. 915.

For the better part of the last eighteen years or more there has

been only one textbook on business law designed specifically for

the C.P.A. candidate. All other books written during this period

and designed for this purpose would have to be classified as out-

lines

or

reviews.

Dr.

Frascona, in his fifth edition, has continued

the textbook approach.

Like his previous editions, the book has numerous highlights

which are designed not only to prepare the C.P.A. candidate for

the business law portion

of

the Uniform Certified Public Accoun-

tant Examination, but also to serve as a handy up-to-date refer-

ence for use by members of the accounting profession performing

services in a changing legal environment.

In reviewing a revision or an edition of

a

previous text, one

cannot help but make comparisons. There is

a

retention of many

features of the author’s previous edition.

For

example, the text

begins,

as

did the fourth edition, with a frequency chart showing

what branches

(or

areas) of law were covered in C.P.A. examina-

tions given from November 1969 to May 1976. The chart differs

from those in other books recently published in that each ques-

tion given during this period is listed under a branch

of

law by

the number under which the question appeared in that exam.

Most others only refer to the type of question asked (objective,

multiple-choice

or

essay) or simply indicate that a question

was

asked concerning that area.

For

those who have old exams, the

author’s approach implies the type of question (for example

1

(10)

is obviously an objective question) and gives an immediate and

specific reference to a branch

of

law covered without having to

read the entire exam.