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Perceptions Regarding Treatments And Creative Accounting Policies

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  • HERBEI (MOT) IOANA

    (WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMIȘOARA, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION)

  • CERNUSCA LUCIAN

    (“AUREL VLAICU” UNIVERSITY OF ARAD, FACULTY OF ECONOMICS)

Abstract

This study aims to present the students' perception on the accounting profiles and professional accountants regarding the forms of manifestations of creative accounting. The article is structured in the following part: introduction, literature review, methodology and research results, as well conclusions and limits on the research. Based on hypotheses, the target group was questioned about a number of issues related the tendency to resort to creative accounting practices. The respondents reject the idea of calling own initiatives to manipulate practices of accounting numbers and distortion the image regarding the financial statements and their performance. They believe that resorting to ethics in accounting is essential when on the basis of professional judgment are developed and substantiates the enterprise accounting policies. We specify that the introduction into the university curricula of creative accounting rate contributes to the acquisition of knowledge in the field, without follow the manipulation of accounting numbers and distortion of the entity's financial image.

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  • Herbei (Mot) Ioana & Cernusca Lucian, 2015. "Perceptions Regarding Treatments And Creative Accounting Policies," Annals - Economy Series, Constantin Brancusi University, Faculty of Economics, vol. 2, pages 173-187, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbu:jrnlec:y:2015:v:2:p:173-187
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