Creative accounting a tool for financial crime: a review of the techniques and its effects
ISSN: 1359-0790
Article publication date: 14 April 2020
Issue publication date: 23 April 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to study the concept and procedure of creative accounting as how is it worked around and how it can lead to financial crimes. The procedure which are followed and which are the people who are involved and who are the victims of such crimes. The methods which are used to perform the action and how is it done. What are the findings of different researchers who have studied the same concept and how can it be curbed is the main purpose of the paper.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper is designed to find out the working of accounting policies and how the loopholes in the same can actually be taken into account, resulting in a certain number games which can be played around it, and to get the desired outcome in the preparation of financial statements.
Findings
Creative accounting, though legal and acceptable around the world, gives in the way to loopholes provided by the acts and rules governing the preparation of financial statements and eventually leading to financial crimes and hampering the economy as a whole.
Research limitations/implications
The limitations of this study remain to the fact that it is an empirical study, as a lot of papers and articles were studied before giving it a shape and reaching a conclusion.
Practical implications
Creative accounting though not illegal but the excess use of the same has given daunting effects on the financial statements and as a result have resulted into financial frauds and looting of peoples money throughout the world.
Social implications
Hard-earned money of the investors is looted and no action can be taken against as the mechanism and the legal bodies are still struggling to curb the problem, and thus it is very important to learn about creative accounting.
Originality/value
This study leads to the understanding of the growth of creative accounting and how it has resulted in accounting frauds leading to financial crimes in an economy.
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Citation
Gupta, C.M. and Kumar, D. (2020), "Creative accounting a tool for financial crime: a review of the techniques and its effects", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 27 No. 2, pp. 397-411. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFC-06-2019-0075
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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