Hi everybody
Please, can you send me you answer and your suggestion about the following question?
Background:
In the Kurdistan region and many other developing countries in the Middle East, corruption has been institutionalized that parallels to the formal and governmental system. For instance, in the Kurdistan region, many laws and regulations have been enacted by ruling elites in which the main aim was to reward and privilege themselves instead of serving the entire society. For example, the Kurdistan parliament has issued a law for funding political parties from the public treasury ( two ruling parties during just six years got more than $5.4 billion that is equivalent to 20% of national income), a law of investment, accordingly only some godfathers and powerful people who belong to ruling parties can bid and get tenders for public investment projects (95% of investment projects awarded to those people), law for establishing businesses and private companies (without sharing profits with the ruling parties one cannot get the license for establishing private projects) , employing a significant number of people in the public sector on the base of partisan and tribal affiliations ( 1.460 million out of 5 million have been employed in the public sector, ghost employees( more than 200000 people are getting public salary without showing their workplaces), normal and exceptional pension schemes for political and tribal followers and many other laws.
In this situation what is the role or position of accounting (as social structure) and professional accountants (as social actors)?
Your suggestions are highly appreciated.