Discover how creative accounting exploits loopholes in standards to artificially enhance a company's financial image, and learn about its implications for companies and investors.

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Dr. Melody Bell is a personal finance ...

“Creative accounting” is really bad. Except when it’s good. Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber, where ...

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought out some creative accounting at companies, as executives attempt to gauge the impact of the pandemic on their businesses and how they would have performed if the ...

Accounting practices in the U.S. have improved over the years, but there are still plenty of ways that companies can manipulate their financial results. And not just in the usual ways--the balance ...

A new report says Lehman Bros. used accounting tricks to cover up the fact it had been insolvent for weeks before it filed for bankruptcy in September 2008. Lynn Turner, former chief accountant for ...

Jon Altman receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the National Environmental Research Program. He is a director of Arts Monthly Australia and a member of the Australian Institute of ...