"Since the global financial crisis of 2007-8, new laws and regulations have been introduced with the aim of improving the transparency in financial reporting. Yet the flow of meaningful information to shareholders and the public has deteriorated. This concise book argues that the changes have...

About this book -- Regulation, regulators and reporting -- Manipulating reports and creative accounting -- Landmark scandals : the impact of earlier cases -- Tesco, HBOS and autonomy -- Carillion: the collapse -- Carillion: the blame game -- Recent cases: Steinhoff and Conviviality --...

About this book -- Regulation, regulators and reporting -- Manipulating reports and creative accounting -- Landmark scandals : the impact of earlier cases -- Tesco, HBOS and autonomy -- Carillion: the collapse -- Carillion: the blame game -- Recent cases: Steinhoff and Conviviality --...

The wrong paradigm -- Distributive justice -- The firm's responsibility for distributive justice -- The contribution of financial reporting to distributive justice -- The reporting function -- The distribution function -- The information function -- Concluding remarks