Conjecturas Acerca do Gerenciamento de Lucros, Republicação das Demonstrações Contábeis e Fraude Contábil

Authors

  • Fernando Dal-Ri Murcia
  • Luis Nelson Carvalho

Keywords:

Earnings Management, Financial Restatement, Fraudulent Reporting

Abstract

    Financial statement reporting objectives to inform external users about the financial situation of an organization. However, recent fraud scandals involving highly known corporations (Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox, Parmalat, etc.) have led financial statement's users to question the integrity and the credibility of this information. This paper, which adopts an exploratory approach, objectives to discuss and to define a few issues related to the manipulation of accounting information: earnings management, financial restatement and fraudulent reporting. For these, a literature review has been. This paper's main contribution consists in the discussion of a theme, which is an organization's "real" problem, and yet incipient in the brazilian scientific literature.

Published

2009-05-13

How to Cite

MURCIA, F. D.-R.; CARVALHO, L. N. Conjecturas Acerca do Gerenciamento de Lucros, Republicação das Demonstrações Contábeis e Fraude Contábil. Contabilidade Vista & Revista, [S. l.], v. 18, n. 4, p. 61–82, 2009. Disponível em: https://revistas.face.ufmg.br/index.php/contabilidadevistaerevista/article/view/340. Acesso em: 20 dec. 2024.