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Running head: PRESSURES ON ACCOUNTANTS Pressures on Accountants Student's Name Course Number-Name of Course Instructor’s Name Date PRESSURES ON ACCOUNTANTS 2 Pressures on Accountants Accountants are practitioners who operate in the field of accounting or accountancy. The professionals are involved in measuring, disclosing and providing assurance concerning the financial information that will be used in helping managers, tax authorities, investors and others to make decisions (Sapp, 2015). When accountants are performing their duties, they are faced with pressures while trying to meet the expectations of a corporation. This paper is an assessment of the pressures that accountants face while trying to meet a corporation’s expectations. One type of pressure arises from the managers who are always driven by a motive of making large profits. As a result, managers may undertake profit smoothing techniques on incomes with the aim of deflating or inflating the net income (Sapp, 2015). Due to the profit smoothing, the accountants are pressured to practice fraudulence in accounting. The information that will be given by the financial statements will hence be deceitful. The biblical ...
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