Editorial: Unethical Behaviours and Management Controls: Issues and Challenges to Management Accounting
Vincent K. Chong et al.
What the paper says
Despite numerous preventative measures and government interventions (e.g. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2003), business fraud and unethical accounting practices continue to increase. Organisations continue to face issues and challenges regarding unethical behaviours such as corruption, fraud, and/or misreporting among their managers. A global fraud survey by EY (Ernst and Young, 2018, p. 7) acknowledges that "the transformation of business models due to the rapid evolution of digital technology is making the landscape of fraud, bribery, and corruption risk ever more complex." A recent fraud survey conducted by KPMG (KPMG, 2021) acknowledges that "Australian business reporting being more vulnerable to fraud and corruption than they were before the pandemic and there is no indication the risk is subsiding." Unethical behaviour, such as corruption, fraudulent financial reporting, or misreporting by organisations has attracted scholarly attention from accounting researchers and other disciplines (see e.g.
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Evidence weight
Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40
| F · citation impact | 0.17 × 0.4 = 0.07 |
| M · momentum | 0.80 × 0.15 = 0.12 |
| V · venue signal | 0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03 |
| R · text relevance † | 0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20 |
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