15.5. Discovering Fraud, or Not
Massaging the numbers is one thing. Accounting and financial reporting fraud, also called cooking the books, is another thing altogether. Accounting fraud refers to such schemes as recording sales revenue for products and services that have not been sold, not recording expenses that have been incurred, recording gains that have not and probably will not be realized, and not recording losses that have been sustained. Financial reporting fraud encompasses accounting fraud; it also includes failing to disclose negative matters that should be disclosed in a financial report or making deliberately misleading disclosures in a financial report.
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