1st Edition

Financial Failures and Scandals From Enron to Carillion

By Krish Bhaskar, John Flower Copyright 2019
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

This concise volume evaluates the cause and significance of recent corporate failures and financial scandals, and how they reflect on the fitness for purpose of the external auditors, financial reports, financial watchdogs, boards, directors and senior management. Failures like the disastrous collapse of Carillion, examined at length, have ultimately led to a crisis of confidence not only in the... Read more

1. About this Book.  2. Regulation, Regulators and Reporting.  3. Manipulating Reports and Creative Accounting.  4. Landmark Scandals :The Impact of Earlier Cases.  5. Tesco, HBOS and Autonomy.  6. Carillion: The Collapse.  7. Carillion: The Blame Game.  8. Recent Cases: Steinhoff and Conviviality.  9. Conclusions: The Aftermath.  GLOSSARY.

Biography

Krish Bhaskar was founding Professor of Accounting at the University of East Anglia, UK and previously held positions at the London School of Economics and the University of Bristol. He is the author of over 50 books and has also worked extensively in the IT, consulting, investment banking, automotive and forecasting sectors.





John Flower, now retired, was formerly Professor of Accounting at the University of Bristol, UK and Director of the Centre for Research in European Accounting, Brussels.



Rod Sellers OBE, FCA, has spent almost 50 years in senior financial and corporate roles in industry.