Accounting Irregularities and Financial Fraud: A Corporate Governance Guide

In recent years, the upsurge in highly publicized allegations of accounting irregularities and fraudulent financial reporting have shaken up today’s corporate community and have been the impetus for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as closer scrutiny by the SEC. Accounting Irregularities and Financial Fraud: A Corporate Governance Guide provides a step-by-step guide to the crises enveloping a company in the wake of fraudulent financial reporting--and how to prevent it from happening in the first place. It discusses the corporate environment that causes fraudulent financial reporting, how it spreads, the kinds of crises it can create for a company, and the best way to deal with them.