Synopsis
Continuing the search for greater reflectivity regarding accounting’s role in society, this volume identifies the many ways accounting contributes to knowledge creation and the consequences in socio-economic realms. Accounting practice has always been concerned with fraud, legitimacy and trust. One might speculate an essential premise behind the audit of publicly held corporations is potential management deception, and thus a raison d'être for accounting and accountability. In this volume researchers, exploring themes of deception: examine financial statement manipulation in the decade after Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), consider internal control impacts on earnings management, deliberate on the usefulness of audit opinions, and contemplate tax evasion practices and their antecedents. In contextualizing the public interest these researchers contemplate cultural distinctions, conflicts of interest, regulation, and the dynamic interfaces and divides between practitioners and academics. Envisioning the facilitation of overall enhancement of the broad community, recommendations for increasing the quality of communication between scholars and professionals is deliberated. Contributing as well to the undeniable concern for broad environmental degradation, the role of the discipline in maintaining the status quo is challenged. Rather, accounting's characterization of accountability should include attributes of socio-environmental destruction: complexity, uncertainty and diffused responsibility. These emergent accounts would inform the journey of constructing more representative accounts of technological degradation. Such imaginative emancipatory accounting would enhance decision- making, develop social well-being, and unfold new forms of knowledge and possibilities.
Review
Lehman examines the relation between firms reporting material weakness in internal control (ICMW) under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and real earnings management. Focusing on manufacturing industry firms, Lehman's results imply that manufacturing firms with ICMW appear to predominantly use overproduction and excessive price discounts to accomplish real earnings management. She suggests that future studies examine whether ICMW firms engage in real earnings management to improve current performance at the expense of future operating and stock price performance. As well, further insights on the role of ICMW in management's earnings management decisions could be obtained from an investigation of the relation between the remediation of ICMW and real earnings management.--Annotation (c)2017 "(protoview.com) "
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