Financial Statements Whitewash of Listed Companies and Its Preventive Measures

摘要

While economic globalization drives rapid economic development, there are small deviations between the international accounting system and the use standards of various countries due to the rapid growth of transnational corporations, resulting in the complexity of statement verification, and more serious acts of financial statement whitewash. Starting from the concept of corporate financial statement whitewash, this paper analyses the causes and harms of financial statement whitewash. On this basis, it discusses the identification methods of listed companies' financial statement whitewash, and puts forward the preventive measures of listed companies' financial statement whitewash. Finally, a comprehensive summary is made. It is expected that listed companies in China can further standardize their financial statements from the judicial and social supervision aspects, improve the publicity and transparency of listed companies' information, truly eliminate the whitewash of financial statements, and promote the stable development of social economy.