Creative accounting, as highlighted in the best selling books of Terry Smith and Ian Griffiths, was one of the key themes in corporate finance in the 1980s. The control of creative accounting has been a major issue of the 1990s. This book looks at the regulatory response to creative accounting and the role olf the Financial Reporting Review Panel, under Sir David Tweedie, in policing company accounts. The book is about the contest for the control of creative accounting, a contest in which Sir David Tweedie describes the Financial Reporting Review Panel as ‘like a cross-eyed javelin thrower at the Olympic Games’.
Book Details:
- Author: Doreen McBarnet
- ISBN: 9780471988359
- Year Published: 2000
- Pages: 366
- BISAC: BUS003000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Auditing
About the Book and Topic:
Creative accounting, as highlighted in the best selling books of Terry Smith and Ian Griffiths, was one of the key themes in corporate finance in the 1980s. The control of creative accounting has been a major issue of the 1990s. This book looks at the regulatory response to creative accounting and the role olf the Financial Reporting Review Panel, under Sir David Tweedie, in policing company accounts. The book is about the contest for the control of creative accounting, a contest in which Sir David Tweedie describes the Financial Reporting Review Panel as ‘like a cross-eyed javelin thrower at the Olympic Games’.
The book addresses in a lively and amusing style issues of vital importance to anybody involved in the preparation of company accounts (whether as a financial manager or as an accountant or auditor) and to anybody analysing the performance of companies either as a student of business or a potential investor. The potential market for books in this area has been proven by the success of the books by Smith and Griffiths. This book should essentially be complementary to such books.
Foreword by Sir David Tweedie Authoritative information resulting from extensive research in the subject area Accessible and amusing style Authors with a good reputation The full powers of the FRRP and all the tools available to them have only come into force fairly recently; the first case using some of the new tools was in 1997
About the Author
Doreen McBarnet and Chris Whelan are the authors of Creative Accounting and the Cross-Eyed Javelin Thrower, published by Wiley.