restatement announcements imply increased fraud risks in Chinese firms in the context that up to one quarter of listed companies … restatements with respect to fraud. In this paper, firms with financial restatements prove to be more likely to be labeled as … positively correlated with future fraud disclosures, and (3) restatements due to negligence are positively correlated with future …

Accruals to Total Assets) are significantly influencing the probability to commit fraud. The developed model is validated with … only 10% of the non-fraud companies being mistakenly considered as fraud based on our model and vice versa. …