Using Nonfinancial Measures to Assess Fraud Risk
<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">ABSTRACT</heading>This study examines whether auditors can effectively use nonfinancial measures (NFMs) to assess the reasonableness of financial performance and, thereby, help detect financial statement fraud (hereafter, fraud). If auditors or other interested parties (e.g., directors, lenders, investors, or regulators) can identify NFMs (e.g., facilities growth) that are correlated with financial measures (e.g., revenue growth), inconsistent patterns between the NFMs and financial measures can be used to detect firms with high fraud risk. We find that the "difference" between financial and nonfinancial performance is significantly greater for firms that committed fraud than for their nonfraud competitors. We also find that this difference is a significant fraud indicator when included in a model containing variables that have previously been linked to the likelihood of fraud. Overall, our results provide empirical evidence suggesting that NFMs can be effectively used to assess fraud risk. Copyright (c), University of Chicago on behalf of the Accounting Research Center, 2009.
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2009
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Authors: | BRAZEL, JOSEPH F. ; JONES, KEITH L. ; ZIMBELMAN, MARK F. |
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Journal of Accounting Research. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0021-8456. - Vol. 47.2009, 5, p. 1135-1166
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Wiley Blackwell |
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