Earnings management and accounting fraud are detrimental to the integrity of financial reporting, and more worryingly, are pervasive. Furthermore, there is often a grey area in which individuals regularly question whether or not specified accounting methods are strictly legal and permitted, or an underhanded abuse of GAAP-granted flexibility. In response, recently there has been an uprising of legislation attempting to curb the incidence of both these events, but there is still question as to whether or not these attempts are effective, or even wholly necessary. This piece examines methods of accounting manipulation through an analysis of cases, and then analyzes the effects on companies of attempts at both regulation and prevention.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CLAREMONT/oai:scholarship.claremont.edu:cmc_theses-1791 |
| Date | 01 January 2013 |
| Creators | Pei, Chris M |
| Publisher | Scholarship @ Claremont |
| Source Sets | Claremont Colleges |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | CMC Senior Theses |
| Rights | © 2013 Chris M. Pei |
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