Many financial statement frauds have been perpetrated because:
a. management needed to report high income to support stock prices.
b. management wanted to decrease the total tax payable by the company.
c. management wanted to show artificial losses to employees.
d. management wanted to pay lower dividends to the shareholders.
a
FEEDBACK: a. Correct.
b. Incorrect.
c. Incorrect.
d. Incorrect.
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