’s responsibility, training and fraud detection. During the last decade internal auditing has become an integral part of modern … businesses since it is capable of detecting errors or offences which lead to fraud. In order to investigate the above … survey instrument and to construct our variables measuring fraud detection, internal audit effectiveness, auditor …

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 …