Ernst and Young surveyed over 3,000 employees from 36 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India and found that a large percentage are aware of fraud in their organizations. The percentage admitting they knew of fraud seems to increase as you move up the management ladder of the organization. For example, 42% of board members and senior managers admitted to knowing about financial reporting irregularities. Apparently they admitted that either sales or costs had been manipulated...
Before you're tempted to dismiss this as due to corruption in the under developed nations, it turns out that while the rates are much higher in the third world, even highly developed countries in Europe report significant amounts of fraud (including financial reporting fraud) is going on in their companies. My guess is that the US is probably not as good as the best European nations
So much for fairly stated financial statements, not to mention, bribery and other forms of corruption...
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