Quality of corporate financial reporting potentially rises if standard accounting rules/principles are of high quality and compliance to them is strongly enforced. But the book reveals immediate problem of political intervention facing market economies, their investors and creditors. It elaborates the forms and timings of lobbying; presents 47 cases of intervention [1960s-2005] involving 12 national standard setters and the global standard setter; classifies the motivating factors for political lobbying; describes the effect of intervention that depended mainly upon form of financial...