Explore: Accounting Fraud

known as earnings management fraud. In this context, management intentionally manipulates accounting policies or accounting estimates to improve financial

several fields including financial accounting, management accounting, tax accounting and cost accounting. Financial accounting focuses on the reporting of an

Forensic accounting, forensic accountancy or financial forensics is the specialty practice area of accounting that investigates whether firms engage in

Creative accounting is a euphemism referring to accounting practices that may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting practices, but deviate

raw materials. Its predecessor, Noble Group Ltd was embroiled in an accounting fraud controversy started in 2015 which eventually necessitated a debt restructuring

and reduce card fraud. Credit card fraud can be authorised, where the genuine customer themselves processes payment to another account which is controlled

inevitable collapse of an unprofitable or mismanaged firm. Examples of accounting frauds include the Enron scandal, World Com and Ocala Funding. These companies

and CEO Bernard Ebbers engaged in accounting fraud to inflate earnings and maintain the company's stock price. The fraud was discovered by the company's

accounts on behalf of Wells Fargo clients without their consent or knowledge due to aggressive internal sales goals at Wells Fargo. News of the fraud

and accounting malpractices. The report accused Adani of pulling "the largest con in corporate history" and "brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud