"Spending on M&A has, in aggregate, grown so fast that it has even overtaken capital expenditure on increasing and maintaining physical assets. Yet McKinsey, the leading management consultancy, reports that "Anyone who has researched merger success rates knows that roughly 70% fail". The idea...

Erster Teil: Rechnungslegungspolitik als derivative Partialpolitik -- Begriffsklärungen und einführende Systematisierung -- Integration der Rechnungslegungspolitik in das System des Management Reporting -- Zielsystem der Rechnungslegungspolitik -- Zielkonflikte und Ungewissheit --...

Address the questions: Why earnings are so important that firms feel compelled to manipulate them? What is earnings management? What set of circumstances will induce earnings management? And how will the interaction among management, boards of directors, investors, employees, suppliers,...