One of the fundamental purposes of corporate accounting is to facilitate the monitoring of managers. Since managers are instrumental in the production of accounting numbers, and since it is costly to monitor their behavior in this regard, firms sometimes report fraudulent accounting numbers. This pa
The pathogenesis of greed: causes and consequences
โ Scribed by Arthur Nikelly
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 180 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1742-3341
- DOI
- 10.1002/aps.50
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