Improving Stakeholder Management through Detection of Accounting Frauds

Stakeholder management is a key to continuous survival of companies. The welfare of various stakeholders like shareholders, creditors, bankers, employees and so on, is linked to the financial well- being of the organization. Financial well- being can more often than not, be threatened by occurrence of accounting frauds Accounting Fraud examination is fast emerging as a profession all over the world. This research paper proposes to undertake an exploratory research into the theoretical framework for accounting fraud examination and provide insights into a couple of accounting frauds in India and abroad. Both primary as well as secondary data will be used to support incidents cited in this research paper. The paper would offer its conclusions based on certain broad observations learnt from examining accounting frauds.