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Cooking the books Why do Accountants manipulate the numbers?

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manipulation of nancial statements
 
science
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'ebt holders
Actual 1rots
Smoothed prots
 
 To 2eep in line with industry8 competitors
 
 To avoid violation of debt covenants
 To get better credit ratings
 
Share price related
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1rot share arrangement such as lm companies
%ncentives driven by management compensation
 
 
"inancial %nterests
=uality and level of disclosure provided
7igh >uality
)overnance >uality 6 board characteristics Audit >uality #ompany
characteristics %nstitutional
manipulation of nancial statements
 
Seminar Wor2 #omplete the exercise 3'enny and Ayr5 in the
assignments section of studynet&
Ensure you submit this prior to next wee2s seminar
 There is an exercise and a >uestion 9answer to the written element no more than -.+ words: