Tax avoidance is one of the most frequent reasons for which companies tend to resort to creative accounting techniques … 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. …

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 …