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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. An idea, behavior, or product is creative if it is both novel and appropriate to some goal. As long as the new ideas cohere with ethical standards, and generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ), they can yield immense benefits.