...Diego Ravenda; Maika M. Valencia-Silva; Josep Maria Argiles-Bosch; Josep Garcia-Blandon Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how accounting is used to disguise and carry out money laundering activities in specific socio-economic and political contexts and whether discretionary...

..., corruption, money laundering and practices that show scant regard for social norms and even laws. Design/methodology/approach The paper locates business behaviour within the broader dynamics of capitalism to argue that hunger for higher profits at almost any cost is not constrained by rules, laws...