Creative accounting
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Creative accounting is a euphemism referring to accounting practices that may follow the letter of the rules of standard accounting practices, but deviate from the spirit of those rules with questionable accounting ethics—specifically distorting results in favor of the "preparers", or the firm that hired the accountant.
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In popular media
A number of business documentaries center around financial scandals and securities fraud that involved creative accounting practices:
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
- Inside Job (2010 film)
- PBS documentary film based on The Ascent of Money
- Documentary based on The Commanding Heights
- Betting on Zero
- The China Hustle
- Dirty Money
- £830,000,000 – Nick Leeson and the Fall of the House of Barings, about Nick Leeson and Barings Bank
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
- Chasing Madoff, about the Madoff investment scandal
- The Price We Pay
- Fyre and Fyre Fraud, two competing documentaries about the Fyre Festival
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