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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

"Creative accounting" is really bad. For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. These two myths of creativity raise two questions.

Creative Accounting

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard

Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish. Distorting the numbers, a form of creative accounting aimed at looking good rather than doing well, is rampant in American business.

Deming

Deming System Incentives Short-term

On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Eliminate Slogans, Exhortations and Targets

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