Book description
Business scandals are always with us from the South Sea Bubble to Enron
and Parmalat. As accounting forms a central element of any business
success or failure, the role of accounting is crucial in understanding
business scandals. This book aims to explore the role of accounting,
particularly creative accounting and fraud, in business scandals. The
book is divided into three parts. In Part A the background and context
of creative accounting and fraud is explored. Part B looks at a series
of international accounting scandals and Part C draws some themes and
implications from the country studies.
Michael Jones, MA Oxon
,
is Professor of Financial Reporting at Bristol University. He has
taught accounting for 33 years at all levels from GCSE to final-year
degree course, and has published over 140 articles in professional and
academic journals, covering a wide range of topics including financial
accounting, the history of accounting and international accounting.
He
is joint editor of the British Accounting Review and serves on two
more editorial boards. He is Director of the Financial Reporting and
Business Communication Unit and he chairs the British Accounting
Association Financial and Reporting Special Interest Group. He has
served on the British Accounting Association Committee and on the
Committee for Professors of Accounting and Finance. He is also the
author of three textbooks: Accounting, Financial Accounting and
Management Accounting.
