Ethical and moral aspects of financial information manipulation
Tatiana Bogdanova
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Bogdanova Tatiana A. – Postgraduate Student at the Chair of Accounting in Business Companies (Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation)
Keywords:aggregation, financial information manipulation, ifrs, information disclosure, operating segment
Citation: Tatiana Bogdanova (2015). Ethical and moral aspects of financial information manipulation. Russian Journal of Entrepreneurship, 16(14), 2149-2156. doi: 10.18334/rp.16.14.519
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Abstract:
The paper analyzes the potential opportunities of manipulating financial information for preparation of financial statements and management reports; it expounds the particularities of the use of the accounting and financial reporting standards IFRS 8 “Operating Segments”and SFAS 131 “Disclosures about Segment of an Enterprise and Related Information”, as well as the contradictions arising from their use.