The Implications of the Similarity between Fraud Numbers and the Numbers in Financial Accounting Textbooks and Test Banks

ABSTRACT: Accounting students learn financial accounting through examples. The examples in accounting textbooks, and the exam questions in the test banks, use round numbers excessively. After gradu...

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