ABSTRACT

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 financ

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|22 pages

Overview of corporate governance

chapter 3|25 pages

Earnings management

chapter 4|36 pages

Rationality or rational behaviour?

chapter 6|28 pages

Independence of auditors and directors

chapter 7|22 pages

Recent corporate governance failures

chapter 8|27 pages

Implications for governance policy

chapter 9|9 pages

Conclusions