CFO's commit accounting fraud because of greed and because of pressure from their bosses.
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That's the one sentence summary of an article based on an abstract summing up an academic paper.
But you probably didn't need me to tell you that.
Because — unlike certain of our academics — you've held a job in the real world.
If you hadn't read this article — in a publication augustly titled The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation — you probably could have guessed all this on your own.
Yes, in the real world, where we non-academics live, greed and pressure often go hand in hand.
And CFOs, apparently, respond to both carrot and stick.
How lovely it must be to inhabit an ivory tower — where such wisdom is considered not just novel insight, but a salient hypothesis for an academic report.
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