The Lehman Brothers scandal emerged after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in late 2008. It involved using a loophole in US accounting standards known as 'Repo 105' to hide substantial losses on the subprime mortgage market.
The Satyam scandal was an accounting scandal involving the Indian computer services company Satyam, where profits and asset values were artificially inflated through fraudulent activities, primarily by creating thousands of false invoices over a period of five years.
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