Discover how creative accounting exploits loopholes in standards to artificially enhance a company's financial image, and learn about its implications for companies and investors.

Learn how to identify creative accounting practices that manipulate balance sheets, impacting assets, liabilities, and equity for perceived financial performance.

Enron. WorldCom. What comes to your mind when you think of these organizations? The use of variable interest entities and misleading classifications of assets to misstate earnings. Accounting ...

2022 MAY 06 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at NewsRx Policy and Law Daily-- A new study on risk management is now available. According to news reporting from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ...

Creative companies rarely comply with standard business templates. Their working practices, pay scales and – yes even in these austere times – expense accounts, would give many a traditional finance ...

It’s likely safe to say—creative accounting’s been around for as long as accounting itself. In 1494, for example, mathematician and ‘father of modern accounting’ Luca Pacioli wrote of Venetian ...

"Creative accounting" is really bad. Except when it's good. Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber, where ...

Among the hundreds of pages in the recent budget statement, you might be forgiven for missing Gordon Brown’s very interesting intervention into the UK’s creative industries, particularly design. As ...