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dc.contributor.authorDutta, Saurav
dc.contributor.authorCaplan, D.
dc.contributor.authorMarcinko, D.
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-27T05:21:40Z
dc.date.available2017-07-27T05:21:40Z
dc.date.created2017-07-26T11:11:10Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationDutta, S. and Caplan, D. and Marcinko, D. 2014. Blurred vision, perilous future: Management fraud at Olympus. Issues in Accounting Education. 29 (3): pp. 459-480.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54614
dc.identifier.doi10.2308/iace-50787
dc.description.abstract

© 2014 American Accounting Association. All rights reserved. In 2011, Japan was shocked by the revelation of a fraud at one of its most prominent companies, Olympus. What was more shocking was that the fraud was perpetrated by its Chairman of the Board and past president, Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, in collusion with several other Board members and officers. The whistleblower was Michael Woodford, a British citizen and the Company’s first non-Japanese president and CEO. Woodford had held the post of president for just six months before he was precipitously fired at a Board of Director’s meeting on October 14, 2011. The case has been successfully used in both undergraduate and graduate courses that include intermediate financial accounting, advanced accounting, auditing, and forensic accounting. It demonstrates how poor governance structures allowed company executives and directors to circumvent accounting rules and hide investment losses for over two decades. The accounting topics include (1) methods of accounting for investments in financial instruments, (2) recognition and measurement of goodwill at the time of acquisition, and (3) consolidation accounting. The case requires students to link economic events to business decisions, and understand the financial reporting ramifications of those decisions. The case also requires students to critically analyze corporate governance mechanisms, and to consider the external auditor’s responsibility for detecting and communicating financial statement fraud.

dc.publisherAmerican Accounting Association
dc.titleBlurred vision, perilous future: Management fraud at Olympus
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume29
dcterms.source.number3
dcterms.source.startPage459
dcterms.source.endPage480
dcterms.source.issn0739-3172
dcterms.source.titleIssues in Accounting Education
curtin.departmentSchool of Accounting
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