focuses on one application of MALCOM: detecting fraud in medical insurance claims. Given a training data set composed of … on a patient. Physicians whose patients had anomalous medical histories (according to MALCOM) were evaluated for fraud by …

methods and standards that improve our ability to address the possibility of detect significant financial statement fraud. In … the standards arena, SAS No. 82, Consideration of Fraud in a Financial Statement Audit (AICPA 1997), was promulgated in … 1997.1 This audit standard requires CPAs to assess and document the risk of fraud during audit planning and to document …

. The static tradeoff theory of capital structure hypothesizes that firms have a target leverage which optimizes firm value … rate firms as if their capital structure decisions are consistent with the tradeoff theory.In the third and final essay, I … bond issues. I find that fraud announcements trigger swift, sharp, and long lasting credit rating downgrades and are …

, Auditing, and Enforcement Releases to havemanipulated their accounting earnings (hereafter fraud firms). Over the course ofthe … fraud period, I find that institutions increase their ownership in fraud firms byapproximately 14 percent, resulting in … ("transient" institutions) slightly mitigate theirlosses by decreasing their ownership in fraud firms. I also provide evidence …

concern about material misstatements due to well-concealed fraud. This pattern of results is consistent with my framework … possibility of management fraud (cf., Bell, Peecher, and Solomon 2005). …

We examine internal auditors' fraud risk decisions in response to variations in audit committee quality and management … fraud risk assessments and altered their audit plans accordingly. With respect to audit committee quality, internal auditors … were in a due diligence or self-assessment role. With respect to the former, they linked the variation in quality to fraud …

This paper provides insight into financial statement fraud instances investigated during the late 1980s through the … governance differences between fraud companies and no-fraud benchmarks on an industry-by-industry basis. The fraud techniques … misappropriations most common in financial-services firms. For each of these three industries, the sample fraud companies have very weak …