This paper explores the nature and incidence of creative accounting practices within the context of ethical considerations.It explores several definitions of creative accounting and the potential and the range of reasons for a company's directors to engage in creative accounting. Later the paper...

After the accounting scandals that have taken place mainly in the United States during the last years, some Spanish leading authorities have defended the idea that this kind of accounting problems cannot happen in Spain. They argue that accounting regulation in Europe, and specifically in Spain,...

This paper examines two principal categories of manipulative behaviour. The term 'macro-manipulation' is used to describe the lobbying of regulators to persuade them to produce regulation that is more favourable to the interests of preparers. 'Micro-manipulation' describes the management of...

Doubts about the reliability of a company's qualitative financial disclosure increase market participant expectations from the auditor's report. The auditing process is supposed to serve as a monitoring device that reduces management incentives to manipulate reported earnings. Empirical research...

Despite the growing interest, the empirical results found in the literature concerningMachiavellianism and its impact on ethical judgments document both inconsistent andcontradictory results. On the other hand, the acceptance of short-term earnings managementpractices raises the most important...

The main goal of this particular research was to assess whether the listed companiesin Spain behave differently in bad economic times versus good economic times. In this regard, thesmoothing behavior of Spanish listed firms was examined. The results obtained document for the2008-2009 financial...

This study intends to be a first step into an attempt of measuring the earningsmanagement using an econometric model valid for the Romanian specificities by trying to establishthe level of significance of three acknowledged econometric models: Jones (1991), Dechow et al.(1995) and Kasznik (1999)...