Introduction: Setting the Scene / Michael Jones -- The Creative Accounting and Fraud Environment / Michael Jones -- Motivations to Indulge in Creative Accounting and Fraud / Michael Jones -- Methods of Creative Accounting and Fraud / Michael Jones -- Evidence for Creative Accounting and Fraud / Michael Jones -- Impression Management / Michael Jones -- Taking the Long View: Accounting Scandals over Time / Michael Jones -- Accounting scandals in Australia since the late 1980s / Garry D. Carnegie and Brendan T. O'Connell -- Corporate Accounting Scandals in China / Catherine Huirong Chen, Yuanyuan Hu and Jason Zezhong Xiao -- Accounting Scandals in Germany / Hansrudi Lenz -- Creative accounting and fraud in Greece / George Kontos, Maria Krambia-Kapardis and Nikolaos Milonas -- Corporate Creative Accounting in India: Extent and Consequences / Bhabatosh Banerjee -- Creative Accounting and Accounting Scandals in Italy / Andrea Melis -- Accounting Fraud in Japan / Kazuyuki Suda -- Financial Accounting Scandals in the Netherlands / Henk Langendijk -- Financial Scandals in Spain / Nieves Carrera -- Accounting Scandals in Sweden: A Long Tradition / Gunnar Rimmel and Kristina Jonäll -- Creative Accounting: the UK experience / David Gwilliam and Richard H G Jackson -- Accounting Scandals in the US / Charles W. Mulford and Eugene E. Comiskey -- Identifying Some Themes / Michael Jones -- The impact of Accounting Scandals and Creative Accounting / Michael Jones -- Conclusion: Looking Back and Forwards / Michael Jones
