Financial Failures and Scandals av Krish Bhaskar, John Flower

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<P>This concise volume evaluates the cause and significance of recent corporate failures and financial scandals, and how they reflect on the fitness for purpose of the external auditors, financial reports, financial watchdogs, boards, directors and senior management. Failures like the disastrous collapse of Carillion, examined at length, have ultimately led to a crisis of confidence not only in the audit process but in the entire process of financial reporting.</P><br/><br/><P></P><br/><br/><P>Revealing the shortcomings in audit quality, independence, choice and the growing expectation gap, <I>Financial Failures and Scandals</I> questions if the profession, its regulators or government watchdogs, are adequately prepared for the challenges of increasing regulation, public outcry and political scrutiny in the face of inevitable future financial failures. The fundamental structures of financial reporting, annual reports, boards of directors and senior management are often found to have fa