Creative Accounting: Nature, Incidence and Ethical Issues
Preprint
- 1 April 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper explores the nature and incidence of creative accounting practices within the context of ethical considerations. It explores several definitions of creative accounting and the potential and the range of reasons for a company's directors to engage in creative accounting. Later the paper considers the various ways in which creative accounting can be undertaken and summarizes some empirical research on the nature and incidence of creative accounting. The ethical dimension of creative accounting is discussed, drawing evidence from several empirical studies. The paper concludes with the analysis of possible solutions for the creative accounting problem.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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