State financial body control of Georgia has a distinctive centuryies-long history. State financial control institute was established in the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-21) as early as in 1918 and it existed until Soviet occupation of Georgia in 1921. For 70 years the state financial...

Business unit (BU) controllers play a fiduciary role to ensure the integrity of financial reporting. However, they often face social pressure from their BU managers to misreport. Drawing on the literature on the human mirror neuron system, this paper investigates whether controllers' ability to...