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True and Fair View: Incentive or Inhibitor for Creative Accounting?

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  • Ciocan Claudia-Cătălina

    („Alexandru Ioan Cuza†University of Iasi)

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The objective of accounting is to present information about the financial position, changes forthe financial position and performance of an economic entity and the financial statements mustpresent a true and fair view of the economic reality for the enterprise concerned. Creativeaccounting is a present issue, a phenomenon that increases users mistrust in financial statements,being considered a manipulation of figures in order to obtain a favorable image, far from beingtrue. In order to address this issue, we analyzed several definitions and forms of this concept, andfollowed how they relate to the objective of the true and fair view. The paper points out that theinteraction between creative accounting and true and fair view can be regarded in a double way:on one side, taking into account the influence of creative accounting on the objective of the trueand fair view, and, on the other side, considering the influence of the perception of the true and fairview on the choice of these techniques.

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  • Ciocan Claudia-Cătălina, 2017. "True and Fair View: Incentive or Inhibitor for Creative Accounting?," Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series, Ovidius University of Constantza, Faculty of Economic Sciences, vol. 0(1), pages 451-455, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ovi:oviste:v:xvii:y:2017:i:1:p:451-455
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    Keywords

    creative accounting; big bath accounting; true and fair view; financial statements;
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    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting

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