...Eclipse of Destinies ..

...E C L I P S E  of  D E S T I N I E S...

About the Author

The author lectured in government and corporate governance and accountability as well as professional liability and duty of care at universities in Fiji, New Zealand and Australia. As free market reforms shifted the focus of university education from academic

Ram Karan

excellence to economic expediency desecrating primeval wisdom of higher education together with personal moral and ethical values, the author ended his academic career of continuing frustration and disillusionment thereby becoming a victim of economic rationalism. By pure chance he encountered a mysterious woman who inspired him to write this book just before his predictions of foreboding calamity began to unfold. The author’s related prior research and publications include:

Law and Public Policy in Financial Reporting in Australia, PhD (Law), University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, 1997.

Irreconcilable Legal and Accounting Views of “A True and Fair View”: An Emerging Alternative from Australian Reforms, Journal of Law and Financial Management, No. 5, 2002.

Selective Commercialization of Public Sector Accounting and its Consequences for Public Accountability, Australian Accounting Review, November 1, 2003.  

Public-Interest Arguments in Privatizing Government Audit, Australian Accounting Review, Vol.13, N.31, November 2003.

Implications for third party actions against auditors of recently failed US companies and decision-usefulness objective under the New York Rule, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol.15, August-October 2004.