and indicate the use of fraud risk factors (red flags) in their efforts to detect fraudulent financial statements and … misappropriation of assets. Further, this study attempts to explain the effect of auditors' estimation of fraud prevalence in the … business environment on their assessment of fraud risk and their subsequent use of fraud risk factors. Empirical data were …

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 …