Corruption in the accounting profession: Survey findings

Journal
Accountancy Cyprus
Date Issued
March 2011
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Corruption affects all sectors
of the economy. In a recent
Harvard Business Review it
was mentioned by Professors
Nicholas Ambraseys of the
Imperial College of London
and Professor Roger Bilham
of the University Colorado at
Boulder that a new
assessment of global earthquake fatalities over the past
three decades indicates that 83 percent of all deaths caused
by the collapse of buildings during earthquakes occurred in
countries considered to be unusually corrupt. The two
authors have argued that corrupt building practices (e.g.
substandard materials, poor assembly methods,
inappropriate placement of buildings and non-adherence to
building codes) have increased the death toll.
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