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A New Dimension to Corporate Governance in Preventing Financial Statement Fraud

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence
Volume 19 (2025): Issue 1 (July 2025)
By: Mirela Matei Pană,  Carmen Mihaela Bulau,  Dan Marius Coman and  Valentin Radu  
Open Access
|Sep 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2025-0429 | Journal eISSN: 2558-9652
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Language: English
Page range: 5602 - 5614
Published on: Sep 22, 2025
Published by: Bucharest University of Economic Studies
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
corporate governance,
financial statements,
fraud,
risk management,
education
Related subjects:
Business and economics,
Political economics,
Political economics, other,
Business management,
Business management, other,
Industrial chemistry,
Energy harvesting and conversion

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