Now a days it seem as if every time someone opens a newspaper or reads the latest news update online, another corporate scandal has occurred. It's nothing new that companies and their executives are being charged with falsifying their earnings or financial documents for personal gain, but what ... options cause executives to end up having a huge personal stake in the company's share price and financial stability which can incline them to partake in deceptive accounting to hide bad news so the stock prices stay high (Jickling). Stock options also cause pay to be excessive and can encourage co...

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... enough to influence their decision-making. They could obtain both this information in various ways such as the company's annual financial report, half-yearly reports, proxy circular, prospectus, information circulars, news release, internet resources and other similar public disclosure reports. Sometimes qualitative information may be disseminated orally from insiders of a company but this type of information usually unreliable. Reasons for this ... can include some "one off" events such as an economy downturn or a sudden boom where performance may be under or over stated, thus causing ...

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