Corporate Governance and the Responsibility of the Board of Directors for Strategic Financial Reporting

One of the fundamental principles of good corporate governance is transparency, i.e., the disclosure of private information to external stakeholders, so that they may make judgments and decisions relating to the corporation. Equally important, but less discussed, is the competing value that corporat...

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Main Author: Gaa, James C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
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Published: 2009
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 90, Issue: 2, Pages: 179-197
Further subjects:B Financial Reporting
B financial report management
B Corporate governance
B ethics of earnings management
B Earnings management
B strategic financial reporting
B Disclosure
B Secrecy
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