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Session Unit 9:
32. Financial Reporting Quality, p.305
LOS 32.e: Describe conditions that are conducive to issuing low-quality, or even
fraudulent, financial reports, p.309
• The company has weak internal controls.
tanties
• The board of directors provides inadequate oversight.
• Applicable accounting standards provide a large range of acceptable accounting
treatments, provide for inconsequential penalties in the case of accounting fraud, or both.
• Rationalisation – ‘I have to’, I’ll reverse it next period’!