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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

"Creative accounting" is really bad. Thinking more soberly about "creative accounting," we conjure up scenes of Enron executives being led into court, humiliated heads of accounting firms trying to explain how they failed to notice that someone was cooking the books, or recurring headlines about the AIG debacle. Except when it's good.