Research suggests that a significant number of undergraduate students have cheated at some point during their college careers. This is of particular concern to the accounting profession and accounting educators given the ethical crisis within the profession and corporate America. This paper...

This paper investigated the capability requirements as represented by Knowledge (KR) and Skills (SR) requirements and competence requirement as represented by Fraud risk assessment (FRA) of a forensic accountant and auditor in the Nigerian public sector. In addition, this study explored whether...

Accounting fraud is a global concern representing a significant threat to the financial system stability due to the resulting diminishing of the market confidence and trust of regulatory authorities. Several tricks can be used to commit accounting fraud, hence the need for non-static regulatory...

Prior research finds that companies committing fraud exhibit large inconsistencies between reported revenue growth and growth in revenue-related nonfinancial measures (e.g., number of stores, employees, patents). However, prior research also suggests that auditors, on average, are not adept at...

The slippery slope is described as ‘playing the system', ‘beating the system', and fundamentally neglecting the laid down rules, regulation within the system for selfish reasons. This presentation revealed the justification, ethical or otherwise for creative accounting, aggressive earnings...

There have been many advances in the accounting literature that focus on theories and methods for detecting the occurrence of corporate financial statement fraud. Many tools have been developed to detect the occurrence of corporate financial statement fraud, particularly using various...

Over the past decades, actual tax revenue generated has consistently fall short of the budgeted tax revenue expected due to tax fraud; this is issue has left government with little funds to finance the huge capital expenditure needed for economic development. It is important to address the issue...

Corporate fraud scandals in recent years resulted in significant regulatory changes as well as growing interest in fraud-related accounting and audit research. However, the scientific landscape of fraud literature has become increasingly fragmented and little is known about the development and...

We provide a lower-bound estimate of the undetected share of corporate fraud. To identify the hidden part of the "iceberg," we exploit Arthur Andersen's demise, which triggered added scrutiny on Arthur Andersen's former clients and thereby increased the detection likelihood of preexisting...

Identity theft is a rampant problem in the United States. It occurs when one's personal information is stolen for the purpose of impersonating that person, making unauthorized purchases, taking money from bank accounts, opening new lines of credit with the stolen information, or using that...