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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. Two myths about creativity underlie the squeamishness: First, that creativity is morally, ethically good. "Creative accounting" is really bad. Except when it's good.