This paper aims to assess the profitability and employees’ productivity of Italian innovative start-ups with a new composite index: the Start-ups Performance score (SP-score). In recent years, the Italian government has made several efforts to foster the economy, establishment, and growth of...

Financial reporting is a source of information used as a basis for economic decisions. It is a basis for the calculation of financial indicators that serve to evaluate the financial health of a company. Statements that are accurate and provide trustworthy information are a prerequisite for an...

The six components of the hexagonal fraud theory are represented in this study by external pressure variables, change in auditors, the nature of the industry, the CEO's dual role, change in directors, and political connections. Additionally, a statistical analysis is done to determine whether...

The goal of study is to identify the phenomenon of the manipulation of financial statements in the modern business world and in particular the study of the case of fraud by Folli-Follie, which led to bankruptcy in 2019 in Greece. The manipulation of financial statements and fraud in general in...

The primary purpose of the current study is to examine the effectiveness of three popular forensic accounting tools to detect financial statement fraud at a real US-listed firm, whose accounting practices were investigated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In this paper, I...

We examine the association between financial statement comparability and the likelihood of accounting fraud. Prior research documents a negative association between the quality of a firm’s reporting environment and accounting fraud. We build on this literature and show that poor financial...