Corporate collapse : regulatory, accounting, and ethical failure / F.L. Clarke, G.W. Dean, K.G. Oliver.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 1997Description: xx, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0521585236
- 9780521585231
- 0521585201
- 9780521585200
- 174.9657 21
- HG230.3 .C56 1997
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 174.9657 CLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A145283B |
Browsing City Campus shelves, Shelving location: City Campus Main Collection Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
174.9657 ACC Accounting ethics : critical perspectives on business and management / | 174.9657 ACC Accounting ethics : critical perspectives on business and management / | 174.9657 ACC Accounting ethics : critical perspectives on business and management / | 174.9657 CLA Corporate collapse : regulatory, accounting, and ethical failure / | 174.9657 DUS Accounting ethics / | 174.9657 DUS Accounting ethics / | 174.9657 ETH Ethical issues in accounting / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-288) and index.
1. Swindlers' list -- 2. Creative accounting -- 3. The corporate 1960s - dubious credit and tangled webs -- 4. Reid Murray - the archetypal failure -- 5. Stanhill - public and private corporate 'games' -- 6. H. G. Palmer - 'Gilt' by association -- 7. Going for broke in the 1970s -- 8. Minsec - decline of a mining trader -- 9. Cambridge Credit - other people's money -- 10. Uncoordinated financial strategies at Associated Securities Ltd -- 11. 1980s: Decade of the deal? -- 12. Adsteam on the rocks -- 13. Bond Corporation Holdings Ltd. (Group) - entrepreneurial rise and fall -- 14. Groupthink and consolidation accounting -- 15. Fatal attrition - accounting's diminishing serviceability -- 16. Ethos abandoned, vision lost, accounting at the professional cross roads?.
Examines why accounting has failed to deliver the truth about a company's state of affairs or to give warning of its drift to failure. Examines a number of well known cases of corporate collapse from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Machine converted from AACR2 source record.
There are no comments on this title.