False Accounting

False accounting in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of false accounting.

Resources

See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• false accounting in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• false accounting in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

English Legal System: False Accounting

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of False Accounting : An offence, punishable by up to seven years’ imprisonment, committed by someone who dishonestly falsifies, destroys, or hides any account or document used in accounting or who uses such a document knowing or suspecting it to be false or misleading. The offence must be committed for the purpose of gain or causing loss to another. There is also a special offence (also punishable by up to seven years’ imprisonment) committed by a company director who publishes or allows to be published a written statement he knows or suspects is misleading or false in order to deceive members or creditors of the company.

See also forgery.