320 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
320 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Corporate scandals due to bad accounting happen far too frequently for a system of corporate governance to be deemed effective. This book tells why the safeguards designed to prevent bad accounting so often fail. By studying why the auditors and members of a board of directors regularly fail to deliver the truth about a company’s financial state of affairs, this provocative book... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Overview of Corporate Governance 3. Earnings Management 4. Rationality or Rational Behaviour? 5. Behaviour and Rationality in Corporate Governance 6. Independence of Auditors and Directors 7. Recent Corporate Governance Failures 8. Implications for Governance Policy 9. Conclusion
Biography
Oliver Marnet is a Lecturer at the University of Exeter Business School.
