Furuyama, Eiji2019-09-252019-09-252012-12-202012http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/188601George Oliver May1 is said to have been often reluctant to judge any financial information as “true” or not. To May, financial information was only as reliable as the integrity of the people releasing it, because accounting was an imperfect art based on artificial constructs of time, such as a quarter, a half or one year, that bore little resemblance to how companies made profits. This paper deals with the economist view on accounting ethics.engWith permission of the license/copyright holdereconomist, account, ethics, financial informationEconomic ethicsBusiness ethicsEthics of economic systemsConference proceedings