Creative Accounting Creative accounting is a term that often implies illegal or fraudulent practices in the U.S. (Moneyterms‚ 2006). The objective of the following paragraphs is to explore some definitions of creative accounting from different perspectives‚ discuss some advantages and disadvantages of creative accounting‚ and explain a real life example of creative accounting. Through these paragraphs I hope to also touch upon some of the ethical issues involved in engaging in creative accounting
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com used creative accounting to portray that the company’s profit were increasing when it fact it was making losses during the period 2000 – 2002 Creative accounting can be refers to accounting practices that seem to follow the applicable accounting standards but differ from the essence of those standards. It use the accounting methods to hide some elements of company’s financial dealings in order to make the company appears more successful that it is in reality. Creative accounting also can
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Abstract: Creative accounting is a practice of accounting following the certain rules of it‚ but it is fluctuated from the basic spirit of those rules. Creative accounting is the ‘colorful’ representation of a company’s assets‚ liabilities and income. It is basically done to attract investors. The example of ‘the half glass of water’ maybe pulled to explain the idea. If a glass is filled with water to its half volume‚ then instead of saying ‘it is half empty’‚ the creative accountants prefer
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International Journal of Trade‚ Economics and Finance‚ Vol. 2‚ No. 6‚ December 2011 Use or Abuse of Creative Accounting Techniques Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah‚ Safdar Butt‚ and Yasir Bin Tariq India who are always short of this product. It takes three years for a cement plant to start production. By the time the new plants came into production in late nineties‚ the country’s economic scenario had changed. The government had no money for development‚ the economy was generally in recession‚ and
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Creative Accounting AC4001 12/13/2013 ‘Many investors now believe that companies can manipulate their accounts more or less at will‚ with the aim of producing profits that increase steadily over time. Provisions are bumped up in good years and later released‚ or the value of an acquisition is slashed; there are plenty of tricks.’ In your opinion is it possible to eliminate creative accounting? I do not think that creative accounting practice can be eliminated completely. However‚ I do
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Creative accounting refers to accounting practices that deviate from (the spirit of ) standard accounting practices. They are characterized by excessive complication and the use of novel ways of characterizing income‚ assets or liabilities. Sometimes the words "innovative" or "aggressive" are used. The term is also (used more seriously and disparagingly) to refer to systematic misrepresentation of the true income and assets of business organizations. "Creative accounting" on this scale has led
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TAKE HOME EXAMINATION MAY 2012 SEMESTER SUBJECT CODE : MAF656 SUBJECT TITLE : ADVANCED ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE LEVEL : DOCTOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION STUDENT’S NAME : SARAVANAN KOLAN DE VELU MATRIC NO. : M70205120002 PROGRAMME : DBA ACADEMIC FACILITATOR : PROF. DR.MOHAMMAD ADAM BAKAR LEARNING CENTRE : KL-HEAD OFFICE INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS 1) This assignment consists of THREE (3) questions. Answer ALL questions. 2) Plagiarism in
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The term of creative accounting refers to select accounting methods for the preparation of financial statement that provide the result desired by the accounting preparers. Especially when the firms are under a financial difficulty‚ the need of creativity would be very apparent because it might be difficult for parties such as auditors‚ with an oversight function‚ to report that the account preparers are doing anything wrong (Deegan‚ 2010). When the economy is moving into recession‚ the most companies
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Lying‚ something that is done by every human being at some point in their life whether they mean to or not. Why do humans lie though? Every person has told a lie to someone at some point for something whether it was to cover up something that they didn’t want the other person to find out or maybe to keep someone from feeling bad about themselves. Webter dictionary defines lying as marked by or containing falsehoods.(merriam-webster) Webster dictionary also defines the word lie as to make an untrue
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Creative accounting refers to accounting practices that seem to follow the letter of the applicable accounting standards but deviate from the spirit of those standards. It is the use of accounting methods to hide aspects of a company’s financial dealings in order to make the company appear more or less successful than it is in reality. In other words‚ Creative accounting is the transformation of financial accounting figures from what they actually are to what preparers desire by taking advantage
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